Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (Various)

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Sheet Music

• Scores (9)
• Parts (0)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (13)
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Scores

 Volume I
*#178082 - 27.82MB, 464 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 17412×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2012/2/12)

 Volume II
*#178083 - 29.73MB, 514 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 11224×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2012/2/12)

Editor John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1856-1936) William Barclay Squire (1855-1927) Language English / German (introduction) Translator John Bernhoff, German text Publisher. Info. London & Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1899. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del/mrg] Misc. Notes Introductory notes also in German. This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Volume I
*#05177 - 26.35MB, 461 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 18636×⇩ - Arturo

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Arturo (2007/4/10)

Editor John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1856-1936) William Barclay Squire (1855-1927) Publisher. Info. London & Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1899. Reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 1963. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del] Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Volume II (EU)
*#05178 - 22.43MB, 516 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - C*/N*/V* - 16932×⇩ - Arturo

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Arturo (2007/4/10)

Editor John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1856-1936) William Barclay Squire (1855-1927) Blanche Winogron (1911-2002) Publisher. Info. London & Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1899 Reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 1979 (©1979) - corrected edition Copyright Public Domain - Non-PD US [tag/del] Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Tables of content
*#601751 - 0.84MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 104×⇩ - Keanur

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Keanur (2019/12/17)

 Index complete
*#603475 - 0.09MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 85×⇩ - Keanur

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Keanur (2019/12/30)

Editor John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1856-1936) William Barclay Squire (1855-1927) Publisher. Info. London & Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1899. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del/mrg] Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Selections

 161. Anonymous: Why Aske You
*#305113 - 0.16MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 1995×⇩ - DillonUpton1992

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 210. Bull: Praeludium
*#305114 - 0.13MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 1983×⇩ - DillonUpton1992

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 1. Bull: Walsingham
*#631992 - 0.48MB, 33 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 228×⇩ - Clarinetjo

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Editor Joâo Schnier (b. 1988) Publisher. Info. Joâo Schnier, 2020. Copyright Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 [tag/del] Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Arrangements and Transcriptions

For 2 Guitars and Cello (Ludenhoff)

 50. W. Blitheman: In Nomine
*#504967 - 0.05MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 232×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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Martin Ludenhoff (2017/12/16)

Arranger Martin Ludenhoff (b. 1970) Publisher. Info. Martin Ludenhoff Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 [tag/del] Recordings V. Pavlov (cello), M. Ludenhoff and K. Rossinskiy (guitars) Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

For 2 Guitars (Ludenhoff)

 14. Anonymous: Alman
*#504866 - 0.05MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 365×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 26. Anonymous: The Irishe Ho-Hoane
*#504970 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 159×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 195. Farnaby: His Rest (Galiard)
*#504972 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 143×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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Martin Ludenhoff (2017/12/16)

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 87. Philips: Galliardo
*#505048 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 258×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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⇒ 7 more: 92. Byrd: Galiarda • 94. Byrd: Galiarda • 193. Anonymous: A Toy • 194. Farnaby: Giles Farnaby's Dreame • 200. Anonymous: An Almain • 201. Anonymous: Corranto • 202. Anonymous: Alman

 92. Byrd: Galiarda
*#505061 - 0.07MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 259×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 94. Byrd: Galiarda
*#505062 - 0.08MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 185×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 193. Anonymous: A Toy
*#505049 - 0.03MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 117×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 194. Farnaby: Giles Farnaby's Dreame
*#505050 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 129×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 200. Anonymous: An Almain
*#505064 - 0.03MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 113×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 201. Anonymous: Corranto
*#505051 - 0.03MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 110×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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 202. Anonymous: Alman
*#505063 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 110×⇩ - Martin Ludenhoff

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For Guitar (Smirnow)

 201. Anonymous: Corranto
*#561652 - 0.02MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 143×⇩ - Jsmus555

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Jsmus555 (2019/2/15)

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Free Recordings

• Robert Pecksmith (organ)

103. Byrd: Fantasia

172. Byrd: The Queene's Alman

• Claudio Colombo (synthesized harpsichord)
• M. Ludenhoff & K. Rossinskiy (guitars)

14. Anonymous: Alman

26. Anonymous: The Irishe Ho-Hoane

87. Philips: Galliardo

193. Anonymous: A Toy

194. Farnaby: Giles Farnaby's Dreame

195. Farnaby: His Rest (Galiard)

201. Anonymous: Corranto

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General Information

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See Early Music review by Richard Turbet for a detailed commentary on the FVB complete recording by Pieter-Jan Belder.

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e. the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this manuscript collection to Cambridge University in 1816, where it remains to this day in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Once called Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book, a title that has been abandoned because it has been determined that she never owned it, the manuscript was given no title by its author. It is believed to be the manuscript collection of an amateur keyboard player of the very early 17th century named Francis Tregian the Younger, who copied the entire collection while imprisoned between 1609 and 1619 in connection with his Catholic sympathies (although his authorship is now disputed [1]). There is no authorship attribution in the book itself. Until Parthenia was printed in about 1612, there was no music published as such in England at this time, and like the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, most of the collections of keyboard music were compiled by performers: other examples include Will Forster's Virginal Book; Clement Matchett's Virginal Book; [William] Tisdale's Virginal Book.

It includes music dating from approximately 1562 to 1612 by John Bull, Giles Farnaby (51 of whose 52 known pieces are included), William Byrd, Peter Philips and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, as well as many others; there are close to 300 separate pieces. As with many keyboard manuscripts of the time, the pieces were not written for a specific instrument (at least, none is mentioned), and most sound happily on all contemporary keyboard instruments, from the virginals through to chamber organs. Most of the pieces in the book are short, and many of them are character pieces with droll and memorable titles, including: "Put up thy Dagger, Jemy," "The New Sa-Hoo," and "Quodlings Delight," by Giles Farnaby; "Nobody's Gigge," by Richard Farnaby; "Pakington's Pownde" and "The Irishe Dumpe" (anonymous); "The Ghost" and "The Earle of Oxford's Marche," by William Byrd; "Worster Braules" by Thomas Tomkins, and the famous "Lachrymae Pavan" by John Dowland, as arranged by Giles Farnaby.

The book was not published at the time of its writing, instead remaining a manuscript in private hands. In 1899, Breitkopf & Härtel published a newly engraved edition with critical commentary. Since copyright on this edition has now lapsed, it has been reprinted by Dover Publications and other publishers specializing in reprinting of out-of-copyright editions, and is available inexpensively.