Creating a Tudor Musical Miscellany: The McGhie/Tenbury 389 Partbooks

Butler, Katherine (2021) Creating a Tudor Musical Miscellany: The McGhie/Tenbury 389 Partbooks. Music and Letters, 102 (2). pp. 234-270. ISSN 0027-4224

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcaa057

Abstract

The best-known Tudor manuscript partbooks tend to be complete or near-complete sets, associated with known individuals, elegantly copied, and with a clear repertorial focus. Yet such manuscripts are not the norm among extant partbooks. Rather most are obscure in origin, the product of workaday copying, and survive as orphans or partial sets. They are miscellanies with wide-ranging contents, complex and seemingly chaotic in their compilation, and their challenges have tended to deter scholarly attention. This article focuses on one particular miscellany from which two partbooks survive—the privately owned McGhie partbook and Bodleian Library Tenbury MS 389—to explore what such collections can reveal about the methods and habits of compilers and the circulation of music. These partbooks were assembled in a series of stages that demonstrate several different strategies for the collection and selection of pieces, methods for organizing scribal labour, and the influence of musical print culture on manuscript production.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Funding information: Research for this article was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant No. AH/L006952/1.
Uncontrolled Keywords: music history, manuscripts, history of the book, miscellanies, early music, Tudor history, Renaissance, scribes, Music
Subjects: V900 Others in Historical and Philosophical studies
W300 Music
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 22 Aug 2019 10:33
Last Modified: 26 Jan 2022 13:00
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40439

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