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Byrd (Hardcover)
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Byrd (Hardcover)
Series: Master Musicians Series
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The foremost composer under the reign of Elizabeth I and James I,
William Byrd (c. 1540 - 1623) produced countless masses, motets,
polyphonic songs, and works for keyboard and instrumental consort,
all of which rank among the most unique and inspired works of the
late Renaissance. His output was widely admired both at the time
and now, and the influence he exerted on his contemporaries and on
future generations of English composers was profound. Byrd was
especially well-known for his motets, a musical form which he - a
practicing Catholic in Anglican England and composer for the
English Chapel Royal - especially favored, in spite of the threats
of religious persecution he routinely faced.
This biography takes a new look at Byrd's music - instrumental and
vocal, sacred and secular - and the various documents of his long
life. Exploring the musical world in which Byrd grew up, author
Kerry McCarthy traces his influence on the English musicians of the
early Baroque, many of whom were his students, and takes on the
uncomfortable paradoxes of the composer's life as a devout and
influential Catholic who spent much of his career in the service of
the English Protestant establishment. McCarthy also pays special
attention to Byrd's literary background and activities as an older
contemporary of Shakespeare who enjoyed close ties to the
Elizabethan and Jacobean literary world. A detailed, fresh, and
readable account of a composer who was revered by his colleagues as
"our Phoenix" and "a Father of Music," Byrd is essential reading
for scholars, students, and performers of early music, as well as
general readers interested in the musical world of Renaissance
England.
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