Gyffard partbooks
The Gyffard Partbooks (British Library Additional MSS 17802-5) (also spelled Giffard) are an important set of Renaissance choral partbooks containing pieces by renowned Renaissance composers such as Thomas Tallis and John Sheppard, as well as additional unnamed composers, which are not found in other sources.
Contents
The collection consists of mostly 4-part sacred a cappella choral music (though there are some 3- and 5-part pieces).
The second part of the MS contains the following works:
- Mass (De nomine Iesu) / anonymous
- Mass (Upon the square) / William Whytbroke
- Mass (Upon the square I) ; Mass (Upon the square II) ; Magnificat / William Mundy
- Magnificat / Thomas Tallis
- Magnificat / John Sheppard
- Magnificat / Henry? Stoning
- Sancte deus / Philip van Wilder
- Sancte deus / Thomas Tallis
- Recordare domine / Richard Bramston
- Gaude maria virgo a 4 ; Gaude virgo a 5 / Robert Johnson
- Salve regina mater misericordie / Philip Alcock
- Sancta maria virgo / anonymous
- Gaudete celicole / John Sheppard
- Tu es petrus / anonymous
- Sancta maria virgo / Thomas Knyght
- Speciosa facta es / Christopher Hoskins
- Nesciens mater / Thomas Wright
- Ave maria / anonymous
- O bone Iesu / anonymous
See also
- Eton Choirbook
- Lambeth Choirbook
- Caius Choirbook
- Peterhouse partbooks
- The Mulliner Book, an instrumental collection
- List of Renaissance composers
Sources
- The Gyffard Partbooks edited by David Mateer. EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC Volumes 48 and 51 published by Stainer & Bell