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The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - 2CD set | Martin Souter | Stock Code: cd 0304
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| The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge houses one of the world's most important manuscripts of keyboard music. It consists of a small folio volume of 220 leaves of paper, 209 of which are filled with music, which is written on six line staves ruled by hand. Our more familiar modern notation uses five line staves. The beautiful binding is of crimson morocco, with gold tooling. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book was compiled between 1612 and 1619 by Francis Tregian during the time in which he was a prisoner in the Fleet prison in London. This wealthy, artistic and cultured man had been imprisoned, along with many others, by King James I of England, who had resumed a campaign of persecution of Catholics which the English royal family had been waging intermittently since the days of Henry VIII almost a century earlier. The Tregian family remained true to their faith, even in the face of great adversity.
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