Henry Lawes: Sacred Music
- Submitting institution
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University of York
: A - A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A - Music
- Output identifier
- 66608181
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- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Henry Lawes: Sacred Music
- Publisher
- Stainer & Bell
- ISBN
- 9780852499610
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Henry Lawes is known to musicologists and performers primarily as a composer of secular song. Lawes, however, composed sacred music throughout his career and this critical edition of his cathedral anthems, Chapel Royal symphony anthems, devotional anthems, sacred songs, metrical psalms and Latin motets makes available for the first time in a scholarly edition a substantial and important corpus of music. This is the first volume of post-1600 music to be published by Early English Church Music since 1997 and the first in its new editorial format. The author’s thorough assessment of the sources (including some new discoveries), and contextual work relating to the Caroline Court, revealed a wide-ranging sacred repertoire from simple metrical psalms through to concertato Italianate settings and Chapel Royal proto-symphony anthems (the latter being musicologically ahead of their time as the symphony anthem is usually considered to be a Restoration genre).
The edition stands within a specific editorial paradigm. It demonstrates extreme rigour of methodology and an extensive knowledge of seventeenth-century printed and manuscript sources. The significance of the volume lies in the presentation of music for the Caroline Court that questions the accepted dichotomy between ‘simple’ Puritan/Calvinist music and the elaborate, often Italianate, ‘High Church’/Laudian music. Henry Lawes wrote both simple psalm tunes and concertato Italianate settings and Chapel Royal symphony anthems for Charles I’s court. Importantly Henry Lawes was a member of the ‘lutes and voices’ who performed in the King’s private chambers, as well as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. The introduction explores the significance of this as it does Henry Lawes’ links with Richard Dering, Angelo Notari and Walter Porter (the subjects of the author’s other REF submissions).
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- Non-English
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