Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright (10 April 1864 – 16 August 1944) was a British

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. Educated at

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, Arkwright was the editor of "The Old English Edition", containing

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ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

s, motets,

madrigals A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number ...

, etc., by English composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, and published in 25 volumes between 1889 and 1902. He was the founding editor of "The Musical Antiquary", published quarterly from 1909 to 1913 and also edited

church music Church music is Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. History Early Christian music The on ...

of Henry Purcell in the

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's edition published between 1889 and 1902. Several of Arkwright's manuscript notebooks are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.

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Article on Arkwright in Saerchinger via Google Books.
1864 births 1944 deaths British musicologists {{UK-musician-stub