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    The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume Two
    The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume Two
    The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume Two
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    The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume Two

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    The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is "the most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music," according to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of unknown origins, the previously scarce collector's item is now available at popular prices for the first time. The pieces herein, while composed for the virginal, can be played without difficulty on piano or any other keyboard instrument.
    The nearly 300 airs, variations, fantasies, toccatas, pavanes, galliards, allemandes, and courantes in these two volumes include some of the finest examples of Elizabethan and Jacobean music: compositions by Thomas Morley, Orlando Gibbons, Giles Farnaby, Thomas Warrock, Ferdinando Richardson, Peter Phillips, Thomas Tompkins, and practically every other composer of the virginalistic school. John Bull and William Byrd, two of England's greatest composers, are represented by over 100 works.
    J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire set the music into modern notation, preserving faithfully the intent of the composers. The peculiarities of the original notation, time signatures, fingering, and the like as well as the ecclesiastical modes and accidentals employed by the composers are explained in a lucid introduction, which also discusses the history of the manuscript, the individuals connected with it, the composers, and the structure of the virginal.
    For this extensively revised and corrected Dover edition, Blanche Winogron, noted musicologist and performer, undertook a thorough critical reexamination of the 1899 Maitland Squire edition by closely comparing it to a copy of the original manuscript (the original is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England) from which it was transcribed. Numerous minor errors, misprints, and misinterpretations in the Maitland/Squire transcription have been corrected, resulting in a new edition closer to the original than ever before.
    The period of this music was one of transition from the older principles and systems of notation to modern theories. This, then, is a most important document for musicologists and others interested in the history of music. But it is also a source of delight, allowing for countless hours at the keyboard for all lovers of good music.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9780486171401
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      The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume Two - Dover Publications

      The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 2

      J. A. Fuller Maitland

      W.B. Squire

      Copyright © 1979 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.

      The Revised Dover Edition, first published in 1979–80, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1899 by Breitkopf and Härtel that incorporates numerous corrections by Blanche Winogron.

      Miss Winogron has written a Preface especially for the Dover Edition in which she comments on the corrections. In order to make room for this new material it was necessary to delete the German translation of the Notes to Volume II from the original text.

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-19495

      9780486171401

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      21069318

      www.doverpublications.com

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      PREFACE TO THE REVISED DOVER EDITION

      NOTES*) TO VOLUME II.

      [CX.] - Felix Namque.

      [CXI.]

      [CXII.] - Daphne.

      [CXIII.] - Pawles Wharfe.

      [CXIV.] - Quodlings Delight.

      [CXV.] - Præludium.

      [CXVI.] - Præludium. Dor.

      [CXVII.] - Præludium.

      [CXVIII.] - Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la. a 4 voci.

      [CXIX.] - In Nomine.

      [CXX.] - Præludium.

      [CXXI.] - Pavana Lachrymæ.

      [CXXII.] - Galiarda.

      [CXXIII.] - Pavana.

      [CXXIV.] - Fantasia.

      [CXXV.] - Christe Redemptor.

      [CXXVI.] - The Maydens Song.

      [CXXVII.] - Put up thy Dagger, Jemy.

      [CXXVIII.] - Bony sweet Robin.

      [CXXIX.] - Fantasia.

      [CXXX.] - A Grounde.

      [CXXXI.] - Barafostus Dreame.

      [CXXXII.] - The Hunting Galliard.

      [CXXXIII.] - The Quadran Paven.

      [CXXXIV.] - Galiard to the Quadran Paven.

      [CXXXV.] - The King’s Hunt.

      [CXXXVI.] - Pavana.

      [CXXXVII.] - Galiarda.

      [CXXXVIII.] - Dr. Bull’s Juell.

      [CXXXIX.] - The Spanish Paven.

      [CXL.] - In Nomine.

      [CXLI.] - Wooddy-Cock.

      [CXLII.] - The Duke of Brunswick’s Alman.

      [CXLIII.] - Rosasolis.

      [CXLIV] - Psalme. [140.]

      [CXLV.] - Alman.

      [CXLVI.] - Alman.

      [CXLVII.] - Alman.

      [CXLVIII.] - The New Sa-Hoo.

      [CXLIX.] - Nobodyes Gigge.

      [CL.] - Malt’s come downe.

      [CLI.] - Praeludium.

      [CLII.] - Alman.

      [CLIII.] - Pavana.

      [CLIV.] - Galiarda.

      [CLV.] - La Volta.

      [CLVI.] - Alman.

      [CLVII.] - Wolseys Wilde.

      [CLVIII.] - Callino Casturame.

      [CLIX.] - La Volta.

      [CLX.] - Rowland.

      [CLXI.] - Why aske you.

      [CLXII.] - The Ghost.

      [CLXIII.] - Alman.

      [CLXIV.] - Galliard.

      [CLXV.] - Pavana.

      [CLXVI.] - Galliarda.

      [CLXVII.] - Pavana.*

      [CLXVIII.] - Galiarda.

      [CLXIX.] - Pavana.

      [CLXX.] - Galliarda.

      [CLXXII.] - The Queenes Alman.

      [CLXXIII.] - A Medley.

      [CLXXIV.] - Pavana.

      [CLXXV.] - Galliarda.

      [CLXXVI.] - Miserere.

      [CLXXVII.] - Miserere.

      [CLXXVIII.] - Pakington’s Pownde.

      [CLXXIX.] - The Irishe Dumpe.

      [CLXXX.] - Watkins Ale.

      [CLXXXI.] - A Gigg.

      [CLXXXII.] - Pipers Paven.

      [CLXXXII.] - Piper’s Galliard.

      [CLXXXIII.] - Variatio Ejusdem.

      [CLXXXIV.] - Præludium. D.

      [CLXXXV.] - Galiarda.

      [CLXXXVI.] - Galiarda.

      [CLXXXVII.] - Allemanda.

      [CLXXXVIII.] - Can shee.

      [CLXXXIX.] - A Gigge.

      [CXC.] - A Gigge.

      [CXCI.] - Sr. Jhon Grayes Galiard.

      [CXCII.] - Preludium.

      [CXCIII.] - A Toy.

      [CXCIV.] - Giles Farnaby’s Dreame.

      [CXCV.] - His Rest.

      [CXCVI.] - His Humour.

      [CXCVII.] - Fayne would I Wedd.

      [CXCVIII.] - A Maske.

      [CXCIX.] - A Maske.

      [CC.] - An Almain.

      [CCI.] - Corranto.

      [CCII.] - Alman.

      [CCIII.] - Corranto.

      [CCIV.] - Corranto.

      [CCV.] - Corranto.

      [CCVI.] - Daunce.

      [CCVII.] - Worster Braules.

      [CCVIII.] - Fantasia.

      [CCIX.] - A Maske.

      [CCX.] - Praeludium.

      [CCXI.]

      [CCXII.] - Martin sayd to his man.

      [CCXIII.] - Almand.

      [CCXIV.] - Pavane Chromatica.

      [CCXV.] - Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.

      [CCXVI.] - Gipseis Round.

      [CCXVII.] - Fantasia.

      [CCXVIII.] - Coranto.

      [CCXIX.] - Pavana.

      [CCXX.] - Pavana.

      [CCXXI.] - Coranto.

      [CCXXII.] - Alman.

      [CCXXIII.] - Corrãto.

      [CCXXIV.] - Corranto.

      [CCXXV.] - Corrãto.

      [CCXXVI.] - Corrãto.

      [CCXXVII.] - Alman.

      [CCXXVIII.] - Corranto.

      [CCXXIX.] - Fantasia.

      [CCXXX.] - Loth to Depart.

      [CCXXXI] - Fantasia.

      [CCXXXII.]

      [CCXXXIII.]

      [CCXXXIV.]

      [CCXXXV.] - Walter Erle’s Paven.

      [CCXXXVI.] - 27.

      [CCXXXVII.] - Fantasia.

      [CCXXXVIII.] - Fantasia.

      [CCXXXIX.] - The L. Zouches Maske.

      [CCXL.] - Groũde.

      [CCXLI.] - Coranto.

      [CCXLII.] - Up T [ails] All.

      [CCXLIII.] - Jhonson’s Medley.

      [CCXLIV] - Nowel’s Galliard.

      [CCXLV.] - Tower Hill.

      [CCXLVI.] - Praeludium.

      [CCXLVII.] - The King’s Morisco.

      [CCXLVIII.] - A Duo.

      [CCXLIX.] - Alman.

      [CCL.] - A Galliard Ground.

      [CCLI.] - The Leaves bee greene.

      [CCLII.] - Pavana.

      [CCLIII.] - Galiarda.

      [CCLIV.] - Pavana.

      [CCLV.] - Galiarda.

      [CCLVI.] - Pavana.

      [CCLVII.] - Pavana Fant [asia].

      [CCLVIII.] - Galiarda.

      [CCLIX.] - The Earle of Oxfords Marche.

      [CCLX.] - Galiarda.

      [CCLXI.] - Fantasia.

      [CCLXII.] - The Duchesse of Brunswick’s Toye.

      [CCLXIII.] - A Toye.

      [CCLXIV] - Corranto.

      [CCLXV.] - Corranto.

      [CCLXVI.] - Corranto.

      [CCLXVII.]

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