MUSICA DEI DONUM Series

A new early music series
Sally Dunkley and Francis Steele, Series Editors
Series Description | Title information

"In Francis Steele and Sally Dunkley's OUP editions we perhaps for the tirst time have a 21st-century take on the performance edition.

This edition offers subtly phrased advice and helpful pointers while retaining a clear score that is a delight from which to sing. Both Dunkley and Steele sing with 'The Sixteen,' so they truly edit from a performer's perspective (this is where we bless the rise of the musicologist/performer). Hence the translation helpfully placed above the text (and so accurate, rather than fitting with the underlay), the suggested dynamics and performance suggestions in the reduced score and the appendix, which offers performance suggestions for individual lines.

This is a superb edition edited sensitively and with great thought. I look forward to many more additions to the series."

-Jonathan Wikeley, Editor of Early Music Today

MUSICA DEI DONUM is a new performing series that unearths the hidden gems of the Renaissance choral repertoire. Each edition will be presented in clear, clean modern notation with accompanying notes by pre-eminent performers and performance scholars in the early music field.

This new series features works that are closely associated with prominent early music ensembles. Additional materials include an introduction to each work and its composer, which ties together historical context and performance issues. Each edition includes a new parallel Latin-English text translation especially commissioned from Jeremy White.

Sally Dunkley and Francis Steele are the overall series editors and have extensive experience of practical editing and ensemble singing at the highest level.

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