William Byrd: A Guide to Research (2nd edition)

摘要

The past twenty years have witnessed a marked increase in the quantity and scope of published scholarship devoted to early music, and the English composer William Byrd (1540-1623) has benefited more than most. Several key developments in historical knowledge and musical interpretation have pushed forward our understanding of Byrd's life and works, and the composer's significance in the context of late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture. The second edition of William Byrd: A Guide to Research is most welcome, therefore, as a completely revised and expanded version of the first edition, published in 1987 by Garland. Richard Turbet is well qualified to record and interpret the progress that has been made in the intervening period, particularly through his experience as founding editor of the periodical discussed in chapter five, the Annual Byrd Newsletter.