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Byrd, bull and farnaby, the three most voluminous con tributors to the collection, are well represented. Fitzwilliam virginal book music collection britannica. It contains the largest collection of elizabethan and jacobean keyboard music a virginal being a small harpsichord numbering nearly three hundred pieces composed during the fifty years before the first published keyboard music in england in 1612. It seems likely that he came under the influence of thomas tallis 15051585 at an early age as he later dedicated works to him as my great teacher. We have moved a portion of our internet book business to a new location in swanzey nh. It contains the largest collection of elizabethan and jacobean keyboard. It takes its name from viscount fitzwilliam who bequeathed this manuscript collection to cambridge university in 1816. The fitzwilliam virginal book is the most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of elizabethan keyboard music, according to groves dictionary of music and musicians.

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Fitzwilliam virginal book, also called erroneously queen elizabeths virginal book, an early 17thcentury english manuscript collection of 297 pieces for keyboard by many of the major composers of the period, including william byrd, who is represented by 67 pieces. The history of fitzwilliam, new hampshire, from 17521887. Well be selling exclusively on the internet and no longer have an open shop. The fitzwilliam virginal book 2 volumes by maitland j a. The sixteenth and early seventeenthcentury ornamentation as practised on the continent is also investigated, in order to elucidate the contemporary english practice.

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