In praise of music: motets, inscriptions and musical philosophy in Robert Dow's partbooks.
The Elizabethan music partbooks of Robert Dow, Fellow of All Souls, are notable not only for their elegant calligraphy but also for their inclusion of Latin inscriptions that offer praise for particular composers or comment on the nature of music. Debates surrounding these partbooks have focused on...
| Published in: | Early Music Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 89 - 102 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2017
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