The Lambeth Choirbook – also known as the Arundel Choirbook – is an illuminated choirbook dating to the sixteenth century. It contains music for 7 Masses, 4 Magnificats, and 8 motets. Much of the music is by Tudor-period composers. The major contributors are Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford; between them they contributed at least ten of its nineteen pieces. Only three of Fayrfax's works have his name attached to them, but five other pieces are known as his; these, along with two by Ludford, are known from concordances in the Caius Choirbook and other manuscripts. Seven anonymous pieces exist in the book:
Ave Dei Patris filia
Ave mundi spes Maria
Gaude flore virginali
Salve regina
two Magnificats
Vidi aquam egredientem de templo (antiphon at the Aspersion before Mass during Eastertide).
No concordances for any of these have been traced, and it seems possible that further works by Fayrfax and Ludford might exist among them. The book also contains music by older composers, such as Edmund Stourton and Walter Lambe, whose music may also be found in the Eton Choirbook.
The book is now housed in Lambeth Palace Library under the reference MS 1.
The LambethChoirbook – also known as the Arundel Choirbook – is an illuminated choirbook dating to the sixteenth century. It contains music for 7 Masses...
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is found in the LambethChoirbook. Another six-part setting, this of the Gaude virgo mater Christi, may be found in the Eton Choirbook; its voices cover...
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...
required.) Fayrfax, Robert (January 1, 1985). Sacred Music from the LambethChoirbook. A-R Editions, Inc. p. viii. ISBN 978-0-89579-150-4. Retrieved July...
the Ritson Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the Eton, Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks; it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have...
in two early-16th-century choirbooks, the Caius Choirbook at Caius College, Cambridge, and the LambethChoirbook at Lambeth Palace, London. His surviving...
required.) Fayrfax, Robert (1 January 1985). Sacred Music from the LambethChoirbook. A-R Editions, Inc. p. viii. ISBN 978-0-89579-150-4. Retrieved 27...
Musicological Society, London, 1997 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 564. Sacred music from the Lambethchoirbook By Robert Fayrfax, Margaret Lyon...
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