The Caius Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the early sixteenth century and containing music by Tudor-period composers. The book appears to originate from Arundel in Sussex, and to have been created sometime in the late 1520s; the then Master of Arundel College, Edward Higgons,[1] seems to have presented it to the collegiate chapel of Saint Stephen's in Westminster, where he was a canon beginning in 1518. The choirbook is now housed at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
The major contributors to the Caius Choirbook are Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford; between them they contributed at least eleven of its fifteen pieces. Music by older composers, such as Edmund Stourton and Walter Lambe, may be found in the Lambeth and Eton Choirbooks, but not in the Caius Choirbook. Other composers represented in the Caius Choirbook include William Cornysh, Edmund Turges, and Henry Prentes. There is in addition a Mass by William Pasche, based upon Christus resurgens, a processional antiphon for Easter.
^Page, William, ed. (1973), "Collegiate churches: Arundel", A History of the County of Sussex, vol. 2, London: Victoria County History, pp. 108–109
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named and anonymous composers in sources such as the Eton Choirbook and the CaiusChoirbook, among the few collections of English music to survive from...
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traditional Gregorian psalm tone settings of the Magnificat include the Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20 (various composers), the sixteen Magnificats by Palestrina...
Ritson Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the Eton, Lambeth and CaiusChoirbooks; it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have been written...
Gaude virgo mater Christi, and a lost Gaude flore virginali. The CaiusChoirbook (c. 1518–1520) contains a Magnificat. Other sources refer to lost works:...
Eton Choirbook, which survived Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1541. Turges also has a Magnificat extant in the Caius Choirbook...
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