It is called A Byrd Celebration, and it features essays by the world top Byrd experts, writing about all aspects of his life and work. The volume will be available for those attending, but for those who are not going to be there, you can still order it in softcover and hardcover versions.
These essays are not what one would find in musicological journals. They are essays based on lectures given to flesh-and-blood attendees of The Byrd Festival over ten years. These are the writings of world-class scholars who are speaking to laypeople who are attending simply for the reason that they find Byrd's music beautiful, fascinating, and important. So each essay is designed to reach people with a story that illuminates the life and work of this most fascinating composer of music in Renaissance England.
The contributor list is truly a who's who of Renaissance music scholarship: Richard Marlow (Trinity College, Cambridge), Kerry McCarthy (Duke University), Philip Brett (1937-2002; King's College, Cambridge), Joseph Kerman (University of California, Berkeley), William Peter Mahrt (Stanford University and the CMAA), David Trendell (King's College London), Richard Turbet (University of Aberdeen), and Mark Williams (London).
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