Music & Song

Edited by Philip Brett, Volume 4 of The Byrd Edition, preface and editorial notes, list of sources, xiv & 123 pp, sewn paperback, in very good condition, Stainer & Bell 1981

25.2 x 17.3 cm, 330g, ISBN 0 85249 366 5

Note by the publisher : Although Byrd’s Masses in three, four and five parts were published without title pages, they have now been established as dating from 1592-95, in the years immediately following his move to Standon Massey near Ingatestone in Essex, home of the Catholic Petre family. While their debt to English and continental models is fully explored in the preface to the volume, the Masses stand above all as reflections of Byrd’s mature style at its most refined and original.

See the contents list below.

Only ever published in paperback, but still in print at a steep £52. This has not stopped American booksellers asking £161, plus postage of course . . .