Fayrfax Book

Fayrfax Book
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Das Fayrfax Book ist eine Handschrift auf Pergament, die circa 1505 entstanden ist und musikalische Werke enthält. Es ist nach dem darin enthaltenen Komponisten Robert Fayrfax benannt, beziehungsweise nach der Familie Fayrfax als zeitweiligem Eigentümer der Handschrift.

Die darin enthaltenen Werke entstammen dem Umfeld des englischen Königshofs. Enthalten sind höfische Liebeslieder sowie geistliche Charols. Die Liebeslieder weisen einen volkstümlichen, teilweise aber auch politischen und satirischen Einschlag auf, die anspruchsvollen Charols unterscheiden sich von der englischen Charol-Tradition sowohl durch ihren Umfang, als auch durch ihre ausgereifte Harmonik. Neben Fayrfax sind unter anderen die Komponisten Gilbert Banastre, William Cornysh, William Newark, Richard Davy und Edmund Turges enthalten.

Die Handschrift ist in schwarz-roter Mensuralnotation gehalten, bemerkenswert ist dabei die sorgfältige Textunterlegung. Das Fayrfax Book befindet sich im Besitz des British Museum (LBM Add. 5465).

Literatur

  • Roger Bowers: Early Tudor Courtly song: an evaluation of the Fayrfax Book. In Benjamin Thompson: The reign of Henry VII. Harlaxton Medieval Studies V. Stamford, 1995. S. 188-212.
  • Gerhard Dietel: Musikgeschichte in Daten. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1994.

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