John Tucke : a case study in early Tudor music theory / Ronald Woodley.

Author/creator Woodley, Ronald
Other author Tucke, John, 1482-
Other author British Library.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Descriptionix, 164 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents John Tucke: A career (re)constructed -- John Tucke's notebook: British Library, Add. MS 10336. I. Description and contents ; II. Selected Texts -- Coloration and typus: a preliminary investigation -- Appendix A. Tucke's appointment to St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester -- Appendix B. Lease of house and gardens to Tucke and his family -- Appendix C. Financial provisions of the proto-cathedral at Gloucester following the surrender of St Peter's Abbey -- Index of manuscripts.
Abstract Much valuable research has been accomplished in recent years on the 'practical' manuscript sources, both complete and fragmentary, of music from later medieval Britain and the institutions in which it flourished. It has been much more difficult to draw out the theoretical context in which composers at the time operated, and the social and educational relationships through which a musical career could be constructed in this important period for British polyphonic music. The chance survival of a manuscript notebook compiled in the first few decades of the sixteenth century by the musician and teacher John Tucke enables one individual case-study to be examined in some detail. Taking this manuscript as its starting point, the present book traces Tucke's career, in so far as it can be reconstructed from available archival sources, and presents the texts of some of the most intriguing material from his notebook, attempting to relate its often enigmatic contents to the wider context of early Tudor music and its production.
General noteIncludes selected texts in Latin and Middle English compiled by John Tucke (British Library, Add. MS 10336) with English translation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and indexes.
LCCN 93016321
ISBN0198163347 (acid-free paper) :

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