Piety and polyphony in sixteenth-century Holland : the choirbooks of St Peter’s Church, Leiden (pdf)

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This book describes the manuscripts, their provenance, history and repertory, and the zeven-getijdencollege, the ecclesiastical organisation which ordered the music books, in detail. Zeven-getijdencolleges have their roots in fifteenth-century piety, founded on the initiative of individuals and town administrators throughout Holland, principally to ensure that prayers and Masses were said for those in the afterlife.