Choirbook (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 180 pages. Illustrated. Christopher Page "Around the performance of a 13th-century motet" / Magnus Williamson "Pictura et scriptura - the Eton Choirbook" / Klaus Pietschmann "A Renaissance composer writes to his patrons - Cristobal de Morales to Cosimo I de' Medici and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese" / Noel O'Regan "Tomas Luis de Victoria's Roman churches revisited" / Edmund A Bowles "Music in court festivals of State: festival books as sources for performance practices" / Edward Corp "Francois Couperin and the Stuart court at St-Germain-en-Laye, 1691-1712: a new interpretation" / Bernard D Sherman "Bach's notation of tempo and early music performance: some reconsiderations" / Eva Badura-Skoda "The Anton Walter fortepiano - Mozart's beloved concert instrument".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 178 pages. Illustrated. "'Verie Sweete and Artificiall': Lorenzo Costa and the Earliest Viols" John Bryan / Hearing John Browne's Motets: Registral Space in the Music of the Eton Choirbook" Fabrice Fitch" / "George Kirbye's Clemens Parody" David Humphreys / "'Clefless' Notation, Counterpoint and the fa-Degree" Stefano Mengozzi / "Readings of Poetry: Readings of Music: Intertextuality in Josquin's "Je me complains de mon amy" Vassiliki Koutsobina / "Would Caccini Approve? A Closer Look at Egerton 2971 and Florid Monody" John Bass / "How Composers Viewed Performers' Additions" Beverly Jerold.

4°. 282 S. OLn. Bibliotheksdoublette (ausgesondert), Einband etwas bestaubt.

Hardcover. Folio (14 x 10 4/8 inches). 184 numbered leaves of thick paper, black ink with 12 staves of 5 lines per page, of which 141 are with musical notation and text in manuscript, followed by a musically notated Index, black ink with 12 staves of 5 lines per page. Contemporary pigskin over oak boards, each cover decorated with panels of roll tools, the spine in six compartments with five raised bands, finger tabs (a bit worn and thumbed, lacking one clasp). Provenance: with the library label of the Redemptorists, "CSSR Domus Mauternensis", founded in 1732 An interesting choir book containing several versions of the Tantum ergo, Te Deum, Avertisti, Alleluja, Kyrie, Tota tota pulchra, and the Ave Maria. From the mother house of the Redemtorists, or "CSSR" (Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer), a Roman Catholic missionary Congregation founded by Saint Alphonsus Liguori at Scala, near Amalfi, Italy for the purpose of labouring among the neglected country people in the neighbourhood of Naples. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Folio, (x), 26, (196) pp, including 190 pages of facsimile in colour plus further illustrations in the introduction. Original quarter morocco, a fine copy. There is no limitation, although only 41 members of the Club are listed and Roxburghe Club publications are never produced in large numbers.

Large historiated initial (110 x 75 mm) cut from a choirbook in Latin (perhaps from the Common of Martyrs in an antiphonal), depicting a male martyr saint holding a book and a palm leaf and standing within an architectural surround and against a burnished gold ground, leafy extensions emerging from each side, the whole painted in shades of blue, pink, brown, orange, red and grey, verso with part of two lines of text and music in square notation on four-line red staves (stave height c.34 mm); trimmed to edges, some very minor creasing and rubbing (ink outline of saint's halo rubbed away), but in excellent condition.A very elegant initial in a style characteristic of Umbrian illumination of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Itcan be compared to the oeuvres of the First Master of the Gubbio Choir Books and theMaster of the Deruta-Salerno Missals, the latter named after two Missals made for the cathedrals of Deruta and Sale rno. Language: Latin.