Scoring summary: V (2)

Subject: Songs

Original Title: Duos, or songs for two voices ... of the which, some be playne and easie to be sung, or played on musicall instruments, & be made for yong [!] beginners of both those sorts. And the rest ... for those that be more perfect in singing or playing ... all the which be devided into three parts. That is to say, the first ... are made for a man and a childe to sing, or otherwise for voices or instruments ... that be of the like compasse or distance in sound. The second ... are made for two children to sing. Also they be aptly made for two treble cornets to play or sound; ... And the third ... be of divers compasses or distances, and therefore are to be used with voices or instruments of musicke accordingly. [London, Thomas Este; the assigne of William Byrd]

Material description:

• Source type
  Source type: Print
  Content type: Notated music
  Date
  1590
  Publishing, printing and production information
  Place: London
  Publisher, copyist: Thomas East
  Material
  Format, extent: part(s)
  

RISM series: RISM A/I W 993; WW 993

Local number: W 993; WW 993

Bibliographic reference: SmithE 2003 no. 7