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• Title:The Eton choirbook / facsimile and introductory study by Magnus Williamson.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Williamson, Magnus, 1967-
  Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music.
  Early Music Manuscript and Facsimile Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, England : DIAMM Publications, ©2010.
  

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  • Call Number: M2.8 .E86 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Songs and music.
  Service books (Music)
  Motets.
  Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
  
• Subject(s):Eton choirbook.
  
• Description:1 score (iv, 85, vi, 132, xv p.) : facsim. ; 44 x 31 cm
  
• Series:DIAMM facsimiles ; 1.
  
• Credits:The Eton choirbook is a full-colour facsimile edition of Eton College Library, MS 178.
  
• Summary:"Ever since it was first copied for use in the college chapel in the early 1500s, the choirbook has been continuously in the possession of Eton College. Several composers whose works were included in it had close associations with the college, not least Robert Wylkynson, who served as the college's informator choristarum from 1500. Other composers represented include Banastre, Browne, Cornyshe, Davy, Fawkyner, Fayrfax, Hygons, Lambe and Turges. Most of its original contents (67 out of a total of 93 pieces) were votive antiphons, or devotional motets of prayer and praise, sung each evening to the Virgin Mary, the college's dedicatee. The Salve ceremony, familiar to worshippers throughout Catholic Europe, lay at the heart of Eton College's raison d'être as a chantry college: the Eton Choirbook is an eloquent witness to this flowering of devotional culture on the eve of the Reformation. The manuscript is also a work of consummate artistry, copied by an experienced scribe on large vellum leaves, and illuminated by a professional limner. Even in its in-complete state (nearly half of its original 224 leaves have been lost), the Eton Choirbook is the undoubted queen of early Tudor music manuscripts"
  
• Notes:Principally for 5 voices.
  In the facsimile, opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.
  Color facsimile reproduction of the Eton choirbook.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-83).
  Includes discography (pages 84-85).
  Latin words; editorial and critical notes in English.
  
• ISBN:9781907647000
  1907647007
  9781907647017 (series)
  1907647015 (series)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Eton choirbook in context
  Codicological structure and inventory
  Structure and compilation
  Finding aids
  Illuminated initials and marginalia
  Logistics: date, cost, donor
  Binding
  Catalogue of compositions
  Texts, books of hours and vernacular piety
  Antecedents, contemporaries and concordances
  Facsimile
  Appendix: Gutter images and notes on the photography.