Two English Musicians at Heidelberg in 1613

Dart, Thurston

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“…The unseemly haste of the wedding was necessitated by the fact that the groom had already arrived in England before Henry took ill, and King James could not keep him and his 191-person retinue waiting around for 6 Trustees of the British Museum Ross W. Duffin long. 46 Curiously, the day before the betrothal ceremony, and in spite of the excitement of the approaching wedding, the Venetian ambassador reported that King James would occasionally be overcome with grief, 'and even in the midst of the most important discussions he will burst out with, ''Henry is dead, Henry is dead'''. 47 While there are many ways to mourn a loved one, it is striking that the Cantus part of the borrowed elegy five times in succession uses those very words.…”

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Voices and Viols, Bibles and Bindings: The Origins of the Blossom Partbooks

Duffin

2014

Early Music History

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The manuscript partbooks (CTB) preserved in the Special Collections Library at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, offer no obvious signs as to their origins. The contents are almost exclusively by London composers and are carefully laid out in an apparently unique alternation of texted and untexted works, as if in performance order. Using clues from the contents, as well as from the physical state of the books, a connection is proposed to events surrounding the death of Prince Henry in late 1612, and marriage of Princess Elizabeth and the Elector Palatine in 1613.

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