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Lawes, Thomas: The Royall Consort 'New Version'

edited by David Pinto.

The Royall Consort is the single, largest body of work in William Lawes' output. Despite the fact that the great majority of the pieces have never before been published, its significance in the development of chamber music style and particularly of the suite form in 17th century English music can hardly be overstated. In a detailed introduction David Pinto discusses the complicated history of the work, including the question of how the two scorings (Old Version-Tr, Tr, T, B & Theorbos; New Version-Tr, Tr, B, B, Theorbos) came to exist not simply as 'prototype' and 'finished product', as the terms 'Old' and 'New' might suggest, but possibly as solutions to different performance requirements and largely parallel in time of composition. In the New Version there are 10 setts made up of 67 pieces; in the Old, 59 of these pieces exist in the 'old' scoring, and a further 15 make up another 3 setts. The two treble parts of the 'New' are specifically named 'violin' in the autograph, but there is nothing in their style that is alien to treble viol writing (albeit virtuoso in some places) of the period. Nor should the magnificent sonority of the scoring for two theorbos be taken as an absolute prerequisite for successful performance, since there is contemporary evidence to support the substitution of harpsichord for theorbo where none is available.

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