The Song Called Trumpets -ScP [LP:LPMEM13]

The Song Called Trumpets -ScP. Contributors: Parsons. Recorder Sextets etc. (SSAATT/ AATTBB). Score and Parts. Publisher's category: Recorder Sextets etc..

Printed after British Library, Add. MS 31390. This piece is unlike most English consort pieces in a number of respects: it is laid out for three pairs of overlapping parts (another example is the Byrd 6-part pavan and galliard). Interestingly the actual compass of each part is really quite small. This may suggest the use of wind instruments, something that in a paradoxical way is supported by the relatively low notated pitch. My feeling is that this was written for wind players (cornetts, shawms and sackbuts), who according to mid-sixteenth-century practice, were used to reading their music up a fifth. We have accordingly provided an alternative set of parts at this high pitch, which we hope wind players will find useful (it is also very suitable for violins). BT

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