The King's Musick

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Excerpt from The King's Musick: A Transcript of Records Relating to Music and Musicians (1460-1700)I ought next to mention that these Records are published (and I fancy it is the first time that most of them have been brought under public notice) by kind permission Of the Lord Chamberlain, which permission I value exceedingly.Having discharged these two most pleasing Obligations, it now remains to consider brie¿y what the work really is. One has only to turn a few pages of the text to discover that we have here a collection of documents, arranged in chronological order and classified under the various reigns, all coming from the Lord Chamberlain's records, as now preserved in the Record Office. Those selected treat for the most part of the maintenance and ordering of musicians attached to the English Court, but we gather up by the way many details concerning their lives which ought to be of much interest to students of music and musical history. These records commence in 1460-1, and are carried up to Michaelmas, 1700. It was thought that such date would be a convenient stopping-place, had investigations been carried further it would have made too bulky a volume, and this is more than sufficient for a first instalment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.