Color facsimile reproduction of the Dow partbooks.
For 5 voices (discantus, medius, altus, tenor, bassus); may also be performed by viol consort.
Title from case.
Includes works by William Byrd, Robert White, Robert Parsons, Alfonso Ferrabosco, John Shepherd, Thomas Tallis, William Mundy, Christopher Tye, Orlandus Lassus, John Taverner, Richard Farrant, and Peter Phillips.
In case.
Accompanied by The Dow partbooks : introduction / by John Milsom (96 p. : music ; 17 x 21 cm.). Contents: Introduction -- Select bibliography -- The Latin inscriptions / with translations by Leofrane Holford-Strevens -- Performance issues -- Gathering diagrams -- Notes on the photography and the reproduction -- Inventory and indices. Main inventory ; Index of clef combinations ; Index of composers, listing modern editions of the works ; Index of titles.
Latin or English words.