Brett, Philip (ed) - Consort Songs

Edited by Philip Brett
First published in 1967, revised 1974
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 22
Weight: 1.26kg

The ‘Cinderella’ of Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music, consort songs for voice and viols survived both the popularity of the imported madrigal and the fashion for the lute air. An indigenous corpus of music, they subsequently influenced the development of the verse anthem.

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