Lawes, Henry - Sacred Music

Transcribed and edited by Jonathan Wainwright

First published in 2020
Pages: 216
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 324 x 246 x 24
Weight: 1.4kg

Admired by Milton, and the leading English songwriter of the mid-seventeenth century, Henry Lawes (1595–1662) also wrote church music of high quality throughout his life, for divine worship and for the Chapel Royal in particular, as well as devotional pieces associated with his role at the Caroline court of the 1630s. This collection comprises anthems, symphony anthems, devotional anthems, sacred songs, metrical psalms, Latin motets, and rounds, with surviving texts from otherwise lost works and psalm tune variations from Matthew Camidge’s Psalmody for a Single Voice (1789). At the boundary of EECM’s remit to make available church music by British composers from the Norman Conquest to the Commonwealth, and indeed ranging beyond definitions of ‘church music’ more strictly applied elsewhere in the series, this volume is somewhat different in appearance and layout from previous recent EECM editions of polyphony, while also being the first of several more planned explorations of seventeenth-century repertoire.

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