An Initial Bibliography...

Collected editions of Tomkins' music:-

Stephen Tuttle (ed), Thomas Tomkins: Keyboard Music Musica Britannica Volume 5 (London: Stainer & Bell, 1973)

John Irving (ed), Consort Music: Thomas Tomkins Musica Britannica Volume 59 (London: Stainer & Bell, 1991)

Bernard Rose (ed) Thomas Tomkins: Musica Deo Sacra I (London: Stainer & Bell, 1965)

Bernard Rose (ed) Thomas Tomkins: Musica Deo Sacra II (London: Stainer & Bell, 1968)

Bernard Rose (ed) Thomas Tomkins: Musica Deo Sacra III (London: Stainer & Bell, 1973)

Bernard Rose (ed) Thomas Tomkins: Musica Deo Sacra IV (London: Stainer & Bell, 1982)

Bernard Rose (ed) Thomas Tomkins: Musica Deo Sacra V (London: Stainer & Bell, 1991)

Bernard Rose (ed) Thomas Tomkins: Musica Deo Sacra VI (London: Stainer & Bell, 1992)

Thomas Tomkins: Songs of Three, Four, Five and Six Parts (1622) (London: Stainer & Bell, 1960)

The complete editions of Tomkins' music listed above above can be ordered online for delivery by post from Stainer & Bell, whose service can be recommended.

 

About Tomkins' life and music:-

Anthony Boden et al, Thomas Tomkins: the last Elizabethan (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005)

J. Irving, The Instrumental Music of Thomas Tomkins, 1572–1656 (New York, 1989)

 

About keyboard music of the period:-

Alexander Silbiger, Keyboard Music Before 1700 (London: Routledge, 2004)

John Caldwell, English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1973) - available as Dover reprint

 

About keyboard instruments of the period:-

Edward M. Ripin et al, Early Keyboard Instruments (London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989)

Bernard Brauchli, The Clavichord (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

 

About choral music of the period:-

Peter Phillips, English Sacred Music 1549-1649 (Oxford: Gimell, 1991)

 

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