John Sheppard: Masses: Mixed Choir: Vocal Score

Edited by Nicholas Sandon Taverner and Tye are the predominant influences in these works. The 6-part Mass Cantate is taken from the Oxford partbooks. The source for The Western Wind Mass The Frences Mass the Mass Be not afraid and the Plainsong Mass for a Mean all in four parts is the so-called 'Gyffard' partbooks (British Library Add. MSS 17802-5) which are now known to have been copied after Elizabeth’s accession for a Catholic patron Dr Philip Gyffard Fellow of Merton College Oxford.