William Byrd
A Research and Information Guide
By Richard Turbet
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-94301-7
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 3rd November 2005
- Pages: 352
About the Book
William Byrd is the most celebrated English composer of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Widely studied and performed, his works are consider models of their time and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This book is an entirely revised edition of the original Byrd CRM published by Garland in 1987. In the intervening decade, a mountain of new Byrd research has occurred; meanwhile, some of the older references mentioned in the original CRM have become outdated or outmoded. Plus, new editions of Byrd's music have made his complete musical compositions available as never before. This book has been completely reworked and enlarged, and a new introduction to Byrd research will outline the latest thinking about the composer and his times. The body of the book has been increased from 1500 to 2000 entries, with particular emphasis on the last decade's explosion of book-length works on Byrd and his music.
William Byrd will be a guide that serves as a ready reference for students and scholars as well as an interesting to read and useful book for anyone who wants to know where to begin to learn more about this important composer.
About the Author(s)
Richard Turbet is Site Services Manager, Arts and Divinity, in the Queen Mother Library, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has achieved widespread recognition for his research on William Byrd and is founding editor of the
Annual Byrd Newsletter. He is also well known for his work in the field of music bibliography from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries: his
Tudor Music: a Research and Information Guide (New York: Garland, 1994) was awarded the C.B. Oldman Prize. Author of over a hundred publications, he is a contributor to the
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and to the
New Dictionary of National Biography.
