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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.
Skinner, David: The Arundel Choirbook (London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1): a Facsimile and Introduction (London: Roxburghe Club, 2003) Curtis, Gareth; Wathey, Andrew: "Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory" Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27 (1994), 1–69
O Maria salvatoris, from the Eton Choirbook. The Eton Choirbook (Eton College MS. 178) is a richly illuminated manuscript collection of English sacred music composed during the late 15th century.
The large format of the books allowed them to be read by the choir when set on a stand. [1] The books were intended for the use of the monks of Lorch. The main financiers of the project to create five deluxe choir books were Duke Ulrich of Württemberg and his wife Sabina, who made the donation in celebration of their wedding in 1511. Many ...
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]
The means he had at his disposal were the most important of the era—the choir of the Chapel Royal was augmented by 47 singers, with an orchestra which reached perhaps 160 people. The chorus was divided into 6 or 7 groups (with the tenors kept together) and a large string section, made up of three groups of violins (rather than the two which ...
The Caius Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the early sixteenth century and containing music by Tudor-period composers.The book appears to originate from Arundel in Sussex, and to have been created sometime in the late 1520s; the then Master of Arundel College, Edward Higgons, [1] seems to have presented it to the collegiate chapel of Saint Stephen's in Westminster, where he was ...
Hector Berlioz was the first to use the term "choral symphony" for a musical composition—his Roméo et Juliette.. A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, and sometimes solo vocalists that, in its internal workings and overall musical architecture, adheres broadly to symphonic musical form. [1]