Tomkins, Thomas - Songs of Three, Four, Five and Six Parts (1622)

Though better known as a composer of church and keyboard music, Tomkins wrote secular vocal music that offers a compendium of all the various styles: canzonets, balletts, madrigals and ‘sacred songs’. Each was dedicated to one of his relatives, a friend or a colleague. The names of these 28 dedicatees form a fascinating list at the end of the book.

Edited Edmund Fellowes. Revised Thurston Dart
Note: Print on demand. Spiral-bound A4

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