Sidney Beck
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Sidney Beck was a lutenist and musicologist who was principally responsible for reviving the English broken consort
. He made the first modern editions of this music and had a professional consort in New York State.
Some of the music in Thomas Morley's
Consort Lessons is incomplete so there was some considerable reconstruction / recomposition to be done.
Broken consort
A broken consort in English early Baroque musical terminology refers to ensembles featuring instruments from more than one family, for example a group featuring both string and wind instruments...
. He made the first modern editions of this music and had a professional consort in New York State.
Some of the music in Thomas Morley's
Thomas Morley
Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England and an organist at St Paul's Cathedral...
Consort Lessons is incomplete so there was some considerable reconstruction / recomposition to be done.