The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume One

by J. Fuller Maitland (Editor), W. B. Squire (Editor)

Overview

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is "the most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music," according to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of unknown origins, the previously scarce collector's item is now available at popular prices for the first time. The pieces herein, while composed for the virginal, can be played without difficulty on piano or any other keyboard instrument.
The nearly 300 airs, variations, fantasies, toccatas, pavanes, galliards, allemandes, and courantes in these two volumes include some of the finest examples of Elizabethan and Jacobean music: compositions by Thomas Morley, Orlando Gibbons, Giles Farnaby, Thomas Warrock, Ferdinando Richardson, Peter Phillips, Thomas Tompkins, and practically every other composer of the virginalistic school. John Bull and William Byrd, two of England's greatest composers, are represented by over 100 works.
J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire set the music into modern notation, preserving faithfully the intent of the composers. The peculiarities of the original notation, time signatures, fingering, and the like as well as the ecclesiastical modes and accidentals employed by the composers are explained in a lucid introduction, which also discusses the history of the manuscript, the individuals connected with it, the composers, and the structure of the virginal.
For this extensively revised and corrected Dover edition, Blanche Winogron, noted musicologist and performer, undertook a thorough critical reexamination of the 1899 Maitland Squire edition by closely comparing it to a copy of the original manuscript (the original is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England) from which it was transcribed. Numerous minor errors, misprints, and misinterpretations in the Maitland/Squire transcription have been corrected, resulting in a new edition closer to the original than ever before.
The period of this music was one of transition from the older principles and systems of notation to modern theories. This, then, is a most important document for musicologists and others interested in the history of music. But it is also a source of delight, allowing for countless hours at the keyboard for all lovers of good music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486210681
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	06/01/1963
Series:	Dover Classical Piano Music , #1
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.86(d)

Table of Contents

I. Walsingham. John Bull (see No. LXVIII)
II. Fantasia [IX]. John Munday
III. Fantasia, Faire Wether, etc. John Munday
IV. Pavana [I]. Ferdinando Richardson
V. Variatio [I]. Ferdinando Richardson
VI. Galiarda [I]. Ferdinando Richardson
VII. Variation [I]. Ferdinando Richardson
VIII. Fantasia [VII]. William Byrd
IX. Goe from my Window. Thomas Morley (see No. XLII)
X. Jhon come kisse me now. William Byrd
XI. Galliarda to my L[ord] Lumley's Paven (see No. XLI). John Bull
XII. Nancie. Thomas Morley
XIII. Pavana [VII]. John Bull
XIV. Alman [IX]. Anon
XV. Robin [see No. CXXVIII). John Munday
XVI. Pavana [II]. M. S.
XVII. Galiarda [X]. John Bull
XVIII. Barafostus' Dreame. Anon (see No. CXXXI)
XIX. Muscadin (see No. CCXCIII). Anon
XX. Alman [VII]. Anon
XXI. Galiarda [I]. Anon
XXII. Praeludium [VII]. Anon
XXIII. Praeludium, El. Kiderminster. Anon
XXIV. Praeludium [XIII]. William Byrd
XXV. Praeludium [XIII]. Anon
XXVI. The Irish Ho-Hoane. Anon
XXVII. Pavane [VII]. Ferdinando Richardson
XXVIII. Variatio [VII]. Ferdinando Richardson
XXIX. Galiarda [I*]. Ferdinando Richardson
XXX. Variatio [I*]. Ferdinando Richardson
XXXI. The Quadran Pavan. John Bull (see No. CXXXIII)
XXXII. Variation of the Quadran Pavan. John Bull
XXXIII. Galiard to the Quadran Pavan. John Bull (see No. CXXXIV)
XXXIV. Pavana [IX]. Dor. John Bull (see No. XLVIII)
XXXV. Galiard to the Pavan [IX]. John Bull
XXXVI. Saint Thomas Wake. John Bull
XXXVII. In Nomine [X*]. John Bull
XXXVIII. [Fantasia. IX*]. John Bull
XXXIX. Pavana [IX]. Robert Johnson, set by Giles Farnaby
XL. The Woods so wilde. Orlando Gibbons (see No. LXVII)
XLI. Pavana of my L[ord] Lumley (see No. XI). John Bull
XLII. Goe from my Window (see No. IX). John Munday
XLIII. Praeludium [I]. John Bull
XLIV. Gloria tibi Trinitas. John Bull
XLV. Salvator Mundi. John Bull
XLVI. Galliarda [VII]. John Bull
XLVII. Variatio [VII]. John Bull
XLVIII. Galiarda to the Paven No. XXXIV [IX]. John Bull
XLIX. Praeludium. Thomas Oldfield
L. In Nomine. William Blitheman
LI. Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La. John Bull
LII. Fantasia [IX]. William Byrd (see No. C)
LIII. The K[ing's] Hunt. Giles Farnaby
LIV. Spagnioletta. Giles Farnaby
LV. For two Virginals. Giles Farnaby
LVI. Passamezzo Pavana. William Byrd
LVII. Galiardas Passamezzo. William Byrd
LVIII. The Carman's Whistle. William Byrd
LIX. The Hunt's up. William Byrd (see No. CCLXXVI)
LXI. Treg[ian's] Ground. William Byrd
LXI. Monsieur's Alman. William Byrd
LXII. Variatio. William Byrd
LXIII. Alman [XIII]. William Byrd
LXIV. Sellenger's Round. William Byrd
LXV. Fortune. William Byrd
LXVI. O Mistris myne. William Byrd
LXVII. The Woods so wilde. William Byrd (see No. XL)
LXVIII. Walsingham. (See No. I.) William Byrd
LXIX. The Bells. William Byrd
LXX. Tirsi, di Luca Marenzio. Ia. Parte intavolata di Pietro Philippi. Peter Philips
LXXI. Freno. 2a. Parte. Peter Philips
LXXII. Così morirò. 3a. Parte. Peter Philips
LXXIII. Fece da voi. à 6. Peter Philips
LXXIV. Pavana Pagget. Peter Philips
LXXV. Galiarda [I**]. Peter Philips
LXXVI. Passamezzo Pavana. Peter Philips
LXXVII. Galiarda Passamezzo. Peter Philips
LXXVIII. Chi fara fede al Cielo, di Alessandro Striggio. Peter Philips
LXXIX. Bon Jour mon Cueur, di Orlando di Lasso. Peter Philips
LXXX. Pavana Dolorosa. Treg[ian set by] Peter Philips
LXXXI. Galiarda Dolorosa. Peter Philips
LXXXII. Amarilli, di Julio Romano (Giulio Caccini). Peter Philips
LXXXIII. Margott laborez. [Lasso, set by] Peter Philips
LXXXIV. Fantasia [VII]. Peter Philips
LXXXV. Pavana [VII]. Peter Philips
LXXXVI. Le Rossignuol. [Lasso, set by] Peter Philips
LXXXVII. Galliardo [VII]. Peter Philips
LXXXVIII. Fantasia [XIII*]. Peter Philips
LXXXIX. Fantasia. Nicholas Strogers
XC. Alman [IX]. Martin Peerson
XCI. Pavana, Bray. William Byrd
XCII. Galiarda. William Byrd
XCIII. Pavana. Ph. Tr. William Byrd
XCIV. Galiarda [XIII*]. William Byrd
XCV. Toccata. Giovanni Pichi
XCVI*. Praeludium Toccata. J. P. Sweelinck
XCVII. Pavana. Thomas Warrock
XCVIII. Galiarda. Thomas Warrock
XCIX. Praeludium. Galeazzo
C. Praeludium to the Fancie, No. LII. William Byrd
CI. Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la. William Byrd
CII. Ut, mi, re. William Byrd
CIII. Fantasia [XIII]. William Byrd
CIV. All in a Garden green. William Byrd
CV. Heaven and Earth. Fre
CVI. Praeludium [VII]. John Bull
CVII. Veni. Anon
CVIII. Fantasia [IX*]. John Bull
CIX. Felix namque. Thomas Tallis