David Skinner, Tudor Trilogy: (1) recording, The Spy’s Choirbook, Alamire, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, dir. Skinner (Obsidian Records, CD712, 2014); (2a) recording, Anne Boleyn’s Songbook, Alamire, dir. Skinner (Obsidian Records, CD715, 2015); (2b) facsimile with introduction, The Anne Boleyn Music Book: Facsimile with Introduction / Thomas Schmidt and David Skinner. DIAMM Facsimiles; 6 (London: Royal College of Music, 2017); (3a) recording, Thomas Tallis: Songs of Reformation, Alamire, Fretwork dir. Skinner (Obsidian Records, CD716, 2016); (3b) article, Skinner, ‘"Deliuer me from my deceytful enemies": a Tallis contrafactum in time of war’, Early Music, Vol. 44/2 (2016), 233—50.
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 12848
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- This output is a combination of the Researcher's other works to be submitted to REF2021 as a multicomponent work.
- Open access status
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- Month
- September
- Year
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This set of 3 CDs (two of them double-CD sets) represents a 3-year project which combines the varied demands of musicological research and writing, preparation of performing editions, musical reconstruction, ensemble direction, and recording. Between them the CDs bring together no fewer than 66 newly edited pieces of music associated with the Tudor court.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This multi-component single output transmits research involving new work on manuscript sources, preparation of an edition, and recording of the music. The project resulted in an entirely new choral and instrumental soundscape for the court of the English Tudors, as well as new historical insights that inform our knowledge of the social uses of this material. Each CD was built around a single manuscript or collection (materials from the British Library, Royal College of Music, Corpus Christi College, Oxford). Much of the music is unique to these manuscripts and has been made available to modern audiences for the first time. Skinner edited all of the music, for voices and instruments.
Skinner’s close editorial work resulted in the new attribution of an anonymous 'Tota pulchra es' to Josquin Desprez ('The Spy’s Choirbook'). For 'Anne Boleyn’s Songbook', new evidence consolidating our understanding of the book’s provenance and its connection to Anne herself was uncovered; in 'Songs of Reformation', he exposed the ceremonial function of the English version of Tallis’s 'Gaude gloriosa' for Henry VIII at St Paul’s Cathedral in 1544, and identified none other than Katherine Parr as author of its text.
The CDs of the Tudor trilogy have between them won three major awards (The Times, Gramophone, Limelight Australia).
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- Non-English
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