Fayrfax Book
The Fayrfax Book , also known as Fayrfax Manuscript , is a manuscript on parchment that was created around 1505 and contains musical works. It is named after the composer Robert Fayrfax it contains , or after the Fayrfax family who temporarily owned the manuscript.
The works contained therein come from the environment of the English royal court. It includes courtly love songs and spiritual Charols . The love songs have a folk, but also political and satirical influence, the demanding Charols differ from the English Charol tradition both in their scope and in their mature harmony . In addition to Fayrfax, the composers Gilbert Banester , William Cornysh , William Newark , Richard Davy and Edmund Turges are included.
The handwriting is in black and red mensural notation , the careful text underlay is remarkable. The Fayrfax Book is owned by the British Library (Add. MS 5465).
literature
- Roger Bowers: Early Tudor Courtly song: an evaluation of the Fayrfax Book . Benjamin Thompson: The reign of Henry VII Harlaxton Medieval Studies V. . Stamford, 1995. pp. 188-212.
- Gerhard Dietel: Music history in data . Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1994.
- David Fallows, The Fayrfax Manuscript . In: The Musical Times 117 (1976), pp. 127 + 129-130. JSTOR 960218
Web links
- Digitized version of the manuscript
- Sheet music in the public domain from Fayrfax Book in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)