William Byrd and His Contemporaries

Philip Brett (1937-2002) was Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to dozens of scholarly editions of English Renaissance music and pioneering articles in a wide variety of fields, he is author of Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes and coeditor of Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, and Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance. Joseph Kerman is Professor Emeritus of Music and Davitt Moroney is Professor of Music and University Organist at the University of California, Berkeley.

"This is superior scholarship that establishes very significant aspects of Byrd's music and its history, and the volume will be an important landmark in Byrd scholarship. The range of methods and subjects itself is admirable; the editors have chosen writings that represent substantial and first-rate study that are either out-of-print or inaccessible. This is an outstanding work." - William Mahrt, editor of Convention in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music"

• Preface Abbreviations 1. William Byrd: Traditionalist and Innovator 2. Homage to Taverner in Byrd's Masses 3. Thomas Tallis: Facing the Music 4. Edward Paston: A Norfolk Gentleman and His Musical Collection Appendix A: Extracts from the Will of Edward Paston Dealing with His Collection Appendix B: List of Manuscripts 5. Musicae Modernae Laus: Geoffrey Whitney's Tributes to the Lute and Its Players 6. The Two Musical Personalities of Thomas Weelkes 7. Orlando Gibbons: English Music for the Scottish Progress of 1617 8. Word Setting in the Songs of Byrd 9. New Reflections on William Byrd 10. Prefaces to Gradualia Appendix: Publications by Philip Brett on Elizabethan-Jacobean Music Index