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The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems is a collection of vocal scores of music from the Tudor era of England (c.1550-1625). It was published in 1978 by Oxford University Press and was compiled by the organist and publisher Christopher Morris (1922-2014), the editor of OUP who also was involved with the popular Carols for Choirs series of books in the 1970s. [1]
The Church was a major influence for music in the 16th century. The Puritans wanted to do away with all church music, but the will of the people to sing only made it more predominant. [4] Many composers that wrote for the church also wrote for the royalty. The style of the church music was known as choral polyphony.
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity. [93]
The bricks were handmade and thinner than modern bricks. The wooden beams were cut by hand, which makes telling the difference between Tudor houses and Tudor-style houses easy, as the original beams are not straight. The upper floors of Tudor houses were often larger than the ground floors, which would create an overhang (or jetty). This would ...
John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c. 1463 – 21 June 1529) was an English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England.Writing in a period of linguistic transition between Middle English and Early Modern English, Skelton is one of the most important poets of the early Tudor period.
Her book, written jointly with Clare Cherry, George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat, fleshed out George as a popular and well-liked courtier from the court of Henry VIII, continuing Ridgway's aim to clarify what is known about the Tudor period. This book was the first modern biography of George Boleyn, the last biography was written ...
Margaret Glyn, About Elizabethan Virginal Music and its Composers, London, 1924 (revised 1934) R.L. Adams, The Development of Keyboard Music in England during the English Renaissance, Diss., University of Washington, 1960; Willi Apel, The History of Keyboard Music to 1700, Indiana University Press, 1972, p. 156–164, 253–258, 278–287, 293 ...
Composers of the Tudor period (5 P) Pages in category "16th-century English composers" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.