John Taverner: His Life and Music

by Hugh Benham

Book Overview

John Taverner was the leading composer of church music under Henry VIII. His contributions to the mass and votive antiphon are varied, distinguished and sometimes innovative; he has left more important settings for the office than any of his predecessors, and even a little secular music survives. Hugh Benham, editor of Taverner's complete works for Early English Church Music, now provides the first full-length study of the composer for over twenty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138256358
• ISBN13: 9781138256354
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"