Violins; viols; consort SKU: HH.HH251-FSP
Composed by Maurice Webster. Edited by John Cunningham and Peter Holman. Violins; Viols; Consort. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH251-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH251-FSP). ISBN 9790708092032.
The five three part (SSB) and nine four part (SSTB) dances in this edition represent the complete surviving consort music of Maurice Webster. Webster, a skilled composer with a distinctive style, appears to have been the main catalyst for introducing the 'string quartet' scoring in dance music to England in the 1620s. The development of this idiom had a significant impact on the music of his contemporaries such as Simon Ives, Charles Coleman and William Lawes, who fully embraced it by the 1630s.
