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Carver, Robert (Composer)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.15
Scope and Contents Choirbook produced in Scotland containing polyphonic settings for Masses, Magnificats, motets, with other various fragments. The manuscript contains works by Carver himself and by other composers of the period, including Dufay, Nesbett, Lambe, Cornysh (Senior), and Fayrfax. The volume was previously thought to have been copied by Carver at the Abbey of Scone, but scholars now agree that it was probably written at the Chapel Royal at Stirling. Not all of the compositions are complete and the...
Dates: 16th century