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Keyboard Solos and Duets, Early Keyboard

Composer: Various Composers (16-17th C.)

Instrumentation: Keyboard

Author/editor/arranger: Brown

Publisher: Stainer & Bell

Format: Sheet music

Product code: K48

Tags: Keyboard

£10.50

By Nicholas Carleton, John Amner and John Tomkins - Six pieces from Musica Britannica Volume 96, edited by Alan Brown. Complementary to K49, this collection is a unique offering of music by John Amner, Nicholas Carleton and John Tomkins that is the only surviving keyboard music by the respective composers. In addition to a pair of duets, in themselves an unusual feature from the period, there are two lengthy sets of variations, Amner’s being a rare example of those on a metrical psalm or hymn-tune (possibly by Tallis in this case), John Tomkins’s being more conventionally modelled on the variation sets of William Byrd. Nicholas Carleton’s ‘A verse of 4 parts’ and ‘Upon the sharp’ include several examples of unusual chromatic notation and wide-ranging tonal schemes.

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