It was once called Virginal Book, a title that has been abandoned because it has been determined that she never owned it, Another hypothesis, which still has supporters, is that it belonged to, a and amateur musician. Until was printed in about 1612, there was no keyboard music published as such in England, because of the technical complexity of printing keyboard music as opposed to, for example, vocal parts. At the time the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book was put together most collections of keyboard music were compiled by performers: other examples include Will Forster's Virginal Book, and. History It was given no title by its copyist and the ownership of the manuscript before the eighteenth century is unclear.Although the word or virginal (the plural form does not necessarily denote more than one instrument) is used today to refer to a specific instrument similar to a small, portable, at the time of the book the word was used to denote virtually any including the. It takes its name from who bequeathed this manuscript collection to in 1816. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late and early periods in, i.e., the late and very early.
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