Tudor Partbooks: the manuscript legacies of John Sadler, John Baldwin and their antecedents
Music Faculty, Dr Magnus Williamson - AHRC
Principal Investigator / Director: Dr Magnus Williamson, University of Newcastle
Oxford participants: Julia Craig-McFeely
Other Participants: not specified
Project Webpage: not specified
Start Date: 01/09/2014
End Date: 31/08/2017
Funder: AHRC
Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): University of Newcastle
Project Description:
The project Tudor Partbooks investigates sixteenth-century English music manuscripts as textual sources; as witnesses to changing, and now-superseded, musical practices; and as physical artefacts made, unmade and - in two conspicuous cases - in need of restoration (see source list on p. 7 below). The investigation of these manuscripts gravitates around two main themes: the manuscripts, their contents and copying between the 1510s and the 1580s (particularly within the context of the Elizabethan ‘afterlife’ of much older Latin polyphony); and the consequences of subsequent physical deterioration, and how this can be overcome through digital and compositional restoration. The project capitalises on new research methods made available by the advent of digital technologies, and creates career-path opportunities that will kindle new interest in this period of musicological investigation.
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