Hickup over the Littany
Peter Phillips: What did it sound like?, 14 December 2023
The Pursuit of Musick: Musical Life in Original Writings and Art c.1200-1770
by Andrew Parrott.
Taverner, 544 pp., £35, December 2022,978 1 915229 54 0 Show More
by Andrew Parrott.
Taverner, 544 pp., £35, December 2022,
“... Chapel Royal in 1515, written by the Venetian ambassador to Henry VIII’s court and included in Andrew Parrott’s The Pursuit of Musick? ‘More divine than human; they were not singing but jubilating [giubilavano].’ The exact meaning of ‘giubilavano’ has been long debated, to no avail. Or what does this résumé of national styles, written in ... ”
