Reference work presents pertinent information about the sources of British keyboard music copied during the seventeenth century. Manuscripts are listed according to country, city, library, and shelfmark. Lost manuscripts and those currently housed in private collections are also included.

About the Author

Candace Bailey completed her Ph.D. in musicology at Duke University, under the direction of Alexander Silbiger, in 1992.  She received an A.M. from the same institution in 1986, and a B.Mus. from UNC-Greensboro in piano the previous year.  A Fulbright to the U.K. in 1989-90 allowed her regular access to most of the manuscripts described in this book.  She has since published two editions of this repertory, as well as articles in the Journal of Musicological Research, Revue de musicologie, Fontes artes musicae, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, and Early Keyboard Journal.  She presents papers on seventeenth-century topics regularly at scholarly meetings in both the U.S. and Europe.  She has been an assistant professor at North Carolina Central University since 1998, where she teaches music history and theory.  She is currently secretary of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and is a member of the American Musicological Society, Royal Music Association, and the British Harpsichord Society.

DSMB 83 / 169p / 0-89990-113-1 / Hardcover / 2003 /  $34.00

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REVIEWS

“This volume is a welcome addition to the available literature…It is a synthetic study, summarizing in a single reference volume the present state of scholarship, attempting an overview of the music itself as well as of the primary sources in which its varied and fascinating repertoire is found.  The most substantial part of Bailey’s study concerns the sources…There is much to admire here.  The treatment of each source is thorough in the main, beginning with a concise summary in tabular form of the physical data…There follows a discursive prose description …that points out any particular features of note and takes due account of recent archival work on provenance and dating.  This section is painstaking and repays careful study.”

MLA Notes

“this is a book to be kept within ready reach…it is indeed a very helpful contribution to the field.”

Fontes Artis Musicae

“the book will serve well as an introduction to the study of British keyboard manuscripts.”

Early Keyboard Journal

“the lists of literature for these manuscripts will prove to be a valuable asset to scholars working on seventeenth-century British music manuscripts.”

Musical Times