Duos or Songs for Two Voices (Whythorne, Thomas)

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Composition Year	1590 - London: Thomas Este
Genre Categories	Duets; Songs; For 2 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; For 2 voices, unspecified instruments; Scores with open instrumentation; For voices with solo instruments; For 2 cornetts; Scores featuring the cornett; For 2 players; English language

Sheet Music

Scores and Parts

Complete Parts
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Publisher. Info.	London: Thomas Este, 1590.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	RISM A/I: W 993
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Part II

Complete Score
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General Information

Work Title	Duos, or Songs for Two Voices
Alternative. Title
Composer	Whythorne, Thomas
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	RISM A/I: W 993
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	None [force assignment]
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1590 - London: Thomas Este
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Renaissance
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	2 voices

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According to Grove Music, "Whythorne made it clear that the music was intended either for voices or combined instruments and voices. . . . The first 22 duets were ‘made for young beginners’, or ‘for a man and a childe to sing, or otherwise for voices or Instruments of Musicke, that be of the like compasse or distance in sound’. The second group consists of 15 songs ‘made for two children to sing. Also they be aptly made for two treble Cornets’ or other voices or instruments of similar compass. The remaining 15 compositions were ‘all Canons of two parts in one’, intended for voices or instruments ‘of divers compasses or distances’."