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The books together contain 1,784 pages and are the work of five different scribes. Two of the books contain hymns and antiphons for the liturgy of the hours, while the third contains settings for the Mass. The large format of the books allowed them to be read by the choir when set on a stand. The musical notes were added by Leonhard Wagner .
The book is large enough for the entire choir to read from one book. Choirbooks were generally put on a stand with the smaller boy sopranos in front and the men in back. As the printing of music became easier and paper replaced vellum, choirbooks fell out of favour, replaced by smaller, cheaper, and easier to handle partbooks and octavos.
Music is available for free download in a variety of formats, including score images in PDF, PS and TIFF format, sound files in MIDI and MP3 formats, and in the notation formats supported by various notation programs, including Finale, Sibelius, NoteWorthy Composer, Encore, and the open source GNU LilyPond.
Chew, Geoffrey: "The Provenance and Date of the Caius and Lambeth Choir-Books", Music and Letters, 51 (1970), 107–17 Bray, Roger W: The Interpretation of Musica Ficta in English Music, c.1490–c.1580 , Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University (1969), I, 115ff; II, 43-68
Free access to high-resolution images of this manuscript from Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music; Playlist of available works from the Eton Choirbook on American Spotify; List of contents of Eton Choirbook (published in Musica Britannica, Vols. X, XI and XII) Free scores from the Eton Choirbook in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
Carols for Choirs is a collection of choral scores, predominantly of Christmas carols and hymns, first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press.It was edited by Sir David Willcocks and Reginald Jacques, and is a widely used source of carols in the British Anglican tradition and among British choral societies. [1]
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A chord chart. Play ⓘ. A chord chart (or chart) is a form of musical notation that describes the basic harmonic and rhythmic information for a song or tune. It is the most common form of notation used by professional session musicians playing jazz or popular music.