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THE MUSIC TRADE
50
REVIEW
JANUARY 15, 1921
DISCOVER OLD ENGLISH MUSIC
Old Manuscripts Recently Brought to Light
Prove the Existence of Musical Knowledge
and Composition in England Centuries Ago
LONDON, ENG., January 6.—Recent large dis-
coveries of fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
century English music are expected .to revolu-
tionize the English musical tradition. It has
been the accepted supposition that the English
are not a musical people, that their achieve-
ments in literature far transcend their achieve-
ments in music and that for the greatest music
one must look to the Italians or the Germans.
The works of England's Shakespeare of music
have been discovered. As a result not only is
English music infinitely the richer but a price-
less contribution has been made to the world's
musical wealth. The lowly English musical
tradition has suddenly taken its place alongside
the great musical traditions of Italy and Ger-
many.
How this change has been brought about is
one of the most astonishing stories which the
world of aesthetics has ever heard.
The story is told by Dr. Richard Runciman
Terry, who is chairman of an editorial commit-
tee which is preparing for publication the vast
wealth of forgotten English music which has
now been brought to light. With him are Dr.
E. H. Fellowes, a minor canon at the Chapel
Royal at Windsor; Dr. P. C. Buck, professor of
music at Dublin University and musical director
at Harrow, and the Rev. A. Ramsbottom, M. A.,
of the famous Charterhouse School.
This committee is engaged in deciphering the
quaint musical notation of the old manuscripts
it has discovered and in completing the scores
for publication by the Oxford University Press.
Two edition^ are to be published, one a quarto
edition, giving the newly discovered masses,
magnificats, anthems and madrigals without
abridgment, and a popular edition embodying
selections from the old music of the largest pop-
ular interest.
The series of publications is expected to cover
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have escaped the cataclysm of the Reformation
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