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Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book is a manuscript keyboard compilation dated 1638. Whilst the importance of the music it contains is not high, it reveals the sort of keyboard music that was being played in the home at this time. ==The manuscript== The upright quarto book originally contained 51 pages, five of which have been torn out. It retains its original calf binding with gold tooling, and the initials ''A.C.'' are stamped on both back and front covers. The verso of the title page bears a table of note values and four lines of verse: ''Fouer moodes in musicke you shall find to bee'' ''But two you only use which heare you see'' ''Devided from the sembreefe to the quaver'' ''Which you with ease may larne if you endevour'' Each of the following 33 pages bears eight sets of six-line ruled staves on which are fifty short pieces of music, written in at least two hands. The remaining pages are blank apart from the last, on the verso of which is written: ''This Book was my Grandmothers Ann Daughter and Coheiresse of Henry Cromwell Esqr. of Upwood in Count. Huntingdon & was dated 1638 But somebody has torn out ye Leaf.'' The book is currently in (The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon ) where it is on loan from the Museum of London under MS 46, 78/748. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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