The early Tudor court, the provinces and the Eton choirbook

Early Music

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-243

  Williamson, Magnus ^a  

^a SOMERVILLE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 63249101571     PISSN: 03061078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/em/25.2.229     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. M. Williamson, The Eton Choirbook: its historical and institutional background (DPhil diss., U. of Oxford, 1995), p.500
2. London, British Library, Add. Ms. 5465, f.11
3. Regarding the changes of plans, see Williamson, The Eton Choirbook, pp.31-48
4. ECR 62/1, p.45 (1506-7), under Custus forinseci
5. F. Ll. Harrison, Music in medieval Britain (Buren, 4/1980), p.459
6. Arundel Castle, Archives of the Duchy of Norfolk, CA/14 (compotus, 1476-7)
7. see R. Bowers and W. Summers, 'Arundel, the Castle, Archives of the Duchy of Norfolk, A340', in 'New sources of English fifteenth- and sixteenth-century polyphony', compiled by R. Bowers and A. Wathey, Early music history, iv (Cambridge, 1984), p.303; see also David Skinner's article elsewhere in this issue
8. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Berkshire Rolls, 5 (treasurer's account, 1503-4), under Cotidiana; Bowers and Summers, 'Arundel', p.303 (n.17)
9. Arundel Castle, Archives of the Duchy of Norfolk, CA/16 (compotus, 1490-91), under Feoda et vadia hospicii
10. T. F. Kirby, Winchester scholars (Winchester, 1888), p.98
11. Marriage was incompatible with a scholarship or fellowship at either of the universities. A vivid example of a scholar's career compromised by marriage can be found in D. MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: a life (New Haven and London, 1996), pp.21-2
12. ECR 61/NR/3-5 (nominal rolls, 1492-5)
13. A. B. Emden, A biographical register of the University of Cambridge to AD 1500 (Cambridge, 1963), p.167
14. ECR 60/14 (register 1), p.130. He was left 100s (£5)
15. Eton College Library, Ms. 178, openings h8-i1 (Salve regina) and r5-6 (Ascendit Cristus). The Salve regina can be found in The Eton Choirbook, ii, ed. F. Ll. Harrison, Musica Britannica, xi (London, 2/1973), pp.18-24
16. Arundel Castle, Archives of the Duchy of Norfolk, CA/14-19 (compotus rolls, 1476-1500). He was instructor of the choristers in 1490-91 (CA/16, under vadiis). He died between 1513 and 1519: regarding the career of Nicholas Huchyn see D. Skinner, Nicholas Ludford (c.1490-1557): a biography and critical edition of the antiphons, with a study of the collegiate chapel of the Holy Trinity, Arundel, under the mastership of Edward Higgons, and a history of the Cains and Lambeth Choirbooks (DPhil diss., U. of Oxford, 1995), pp.106-8
17. Emden, Biographical Register ... Cambridge, p.497
18. M. K. Jones and M. G. Underwood, The King's mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (Cambridge, 1992), p.272
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20. H. C. M. Lyte, A history of Eton College (1440-1910) (London, 4/1911), p.3
21. for a revised view of the link between Eton and King's see K. E. Selway, The role of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, in the polity of the Lancastrian monarchy (DPhil diss., U. of Oxford, 1993), pp.226-7
22. Harrison, Music in medieval Britain, p.458
23. he was provost of King's from 1509 until his death in 1528. His Salve regina (on openings h6-h7 of the Eton Choirbook) is in The Eton Choirbook, ii, pp.12-17
24. King's College, Cambridge, Archives of the Provost and Fellows, Mundum Book 10, 1508-9, under Custus ecclesie, f.20, and under ffeoda et regarda, f.29, and 1515-16, under Expense necessarie, f.27v
25. Jones and Underwood, The King's mother, p.273
26. See n.44 above. For biographical information on Prentice, see F. Kisby, The Royal Household Chapel in early-Tudor London, 1485-1547 (PhD diss., U. of London, 1996), p.487
27. C. Ross, Edward IV (London, 1974), pp.97-8; as brother to Queen Elizabeth, whom Edward married in September 1466 (suggestively shortly before Edward reprieved Eton College), Anthony Woodville was in a position to bend the king's ear. The first set of post-dissolution accounts (ECR 62/AR/C/2) begins in January 1467
28. In London, British Library, Add. Ms. 5465, ff.104v-108; for a modern edition see Early Tudor songs and carols, ed. J. Stevens, Musica Britannica, xxxvi (London, 1975), pp.135-7
29. H. Benham, 'Prince Arthur (1486-1502), a carol and a cantus firmus', Early music, xv (1987), pp.463-7
30. S. B. Chrimes, Henry VII (London, 1972), p.285. The baby Catherine died a few days after her birth
31. Chrimes, Henry VII, pp.285-7. After Arthur's death, Henry negotiated for the remarriage of Catherine of Aragon to Prince Henry (Arthur's younger brother). This plan was disrupted by political problems within Castile
32. W. N. M. Beckett, Sheen Charterhouse from its foundation to its dissolution (DPhil diss., U. of Oxford, 1992), pp.143-5
33. Beckett compares Henry's policies with those of Edward IV, who was hailed as second founder of Syon Abbey (Beckett, Sheen Charterhouse, p.135)
34. See The Eton Choirbook, ii, p.124
35. Horman's Vulgaria and the possible application of some of his commonplaces to modern readings of Tudor music theory are discussed in R. Woodley, John Tucke: a case study in early Tudor music theory (Oxford, 1993), pp.7-8 (n.24)
36. Lyte, History, pp.112-13
37. J. Stevens, Music and poetry in the early Tudor court (Cambridge, 1979), p.255
38. I. Woodfield, The early history of the viol (Cambridge, 1984), pp.206-18
39. See, for instance, Stevens, Music and poetry, pp.252-9