Product Description: Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works...read more

The author of Shakespeare's Songbook offers an engaging study of musical temperament and its influence on the ways in which we experience music, tracing the practice of dividing an octave into twelve equally proportioned half-steps and proposing a radical new approach to how we play and hear music.

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Product Description: This collection of eleven motets for from three to six voices by the most influential of all the Franco-Flemish composers of the early sixteenth century includes outstanding compositions from all periods of his life. This is both a scholarly and practical performing edition--each piece has a full keyboard reduction as well as a comprehensive critical commentary--and will prove indispensable to all explorers of this important, exquisite, and too often neglected repertoire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)