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Music and Letters 2007 88(3):420-435; doi:10.1093/ml/gcm007
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© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Music Manuscripts of George Iliffe from Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, including a New Ascription to Byrd

Oliver Neighbour


  Abstract

Among manuscripts originating from Stanford Hall, two belonging to George Iliffe have been known for some time, but not studied. The emergence of two more prompts an examination of the part played by Iliffe in their compilation and copying, and of their contents. In two partbooks, the survivors of a set of three, he incorporated several mid-sixteenth-century pieces copied somewhat earlier, some of them entirely unknown, others supplementing previous knowledge. Elsewhere there is a heavily crossed-out alto part attributed to Byrd from a presumably four-part setting of a prayer by Luther. Authentic or not, it serves as a reminder of the complexity of Byrd's position as a patriotic convert to Roman Catholicism from a Protestant family, and the possible effects of his musical upbringing on the output of his maturity.


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