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Seven Problems of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1952

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Everyone who has ever done research will know how easy it is to go on from year to year, without ever considering the alarming possibility of being called to account. As the Chairman has said, this paper has been bespoken while the work is still in progress, so it must therefore take the form of an interim report. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book may be regarded as the most important collection of English keyboard music.

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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1944

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