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The Ritson manuscript is the most important extant source of English music between the Old Hall manuscript and the Eton choirbook. Compiled in Devon over a period of about fifty years, it contains carols, secular songs and more than thirty sacred compositions including Masses, votive antiphons, ritual settings and an English version of the Te deum. The complete sacred works are published in this volume, many for the first time. Most are in three voices: SAT or ATBar, but two are in five: SATBarB. xxxii + 144 pages. Hardbound. ISMN 979-0-57039-078-6.
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