Byrd's keyboard music

[Mandryka]

Thanks for answering my questions. Agreed about Hogwood and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a lovely set, thankfully rescued by Eloquence from the original Folio Society LPs.

I was referring to Belder’s Byrd in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. I only just noticed he has released a recording of My Lady Nevell’s Book - which I’m listening to for the first time now. First impressions of Pavans - it is particularly sweet and lyrical.

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/59/000158295.pdf

And when I said “Belder anyone” I meant to say “Berben anyone.” Senior moments, obvs.

[MickyD]

I was referring to Belder’s Byrd in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. I only just noticed he has released a recording of My Lady Nevell’s Book - which I’m listening to for the first time now. First impressions of Pavans - it is particularly sweet and lyrical.

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/59/000158295.pdf

And when I said “Belder anyone” I meant to say “Berben anyone.” Senior moments, obvs.

Oops, sorry, I thought you were continuing to talk about Hogwood. All the same, I was happy to flag up those vintage recordings of his again!

[Mandryka]

Oops, sorry, I thought you were continuing to talk about Hogwood. All the same, I was happy to flag up those vintage recordings of his again!

I was talking about both Hogwood and Belder’s Lady Nevall recordings. Love the Hogwood, hardly know the Belder! Love the Hogwood Fitzwilliam, the Belder Fitzwilliam is OK.

[ardcarp]

The programme ended with Byrd's 'The Bells'. Some doubt was expressed about how bells might have sounded in the early Reformation, in other words whether church bells actually 'played' parts of scales. It was a peculiarly English thing to mount church bells on wheels, and with the aid of a slider-and-stay system, enable them to be rung in some sort of order.....unlike the random cacophony which is still to be heard in most other places. I suspect the system must have been around in Byrd's time. I think St Margaret's Westminster may have been in the forefront of this technology.

Anyone uncertain about English bell-ringing might be interested to read the history. (Sorry if this is a bit of a digression.)

https://bellringing.org/discover-bellringing/history-of-bellringing/

[Pulcinella]

The programme ended with Byrd's 'The Bells'. Some doubt was expressed about how bells might have sounded in the early Reformation, in other words whether church bells actually 'played' parts of scales. It was a peculiarly English thing to mount church bells on wheels, and with the aid of a slider-and-stay system, enable them to be rung in some sort of order.....unlike the random cacophony which is still to be heard in most other places. I suspect the system must have been around in Byrd's time. I think St Margaret's Westminster may have been in the forefront of this technology.

Anyone uncertain about English bell-ringing might be interested to read the history. (Sorry if this is a bit of a digression.)

https://bellringing.org/discover-bel...f-bellringing/

I need to look into this later, as it might be the answer I was seeking when I launched this thread:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?22636-The-bells-the-bells!&highlight=Change+ringing