Hugh Kellyk (fl.c.1480) was an English composer, whose tree surviving works are preserved in the

Eton Choirbook The Eton Choirbook (Eton College MS. 178) is a richly illuminated manuscript collection of England, English sacred music composed during the late 15th century. It was one of very few collections of Latin liturgical music to survive the English R ...

. These two works are a five-part Magnificat and a seven-part Gaude flore virginali, which appear to be among the earlier pieces in the choirbook. Gaude Flore Virginali was recorded by

The Sixteen The Sixteen are a United Kingdom-based choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers, they started as an unnamed group of sixteen friends in 1977, giving their first billed concert in 1979. The group performs early Engl ...

in 1994,Fanfare - Volume 17 Page 310 Joel Flegler - 1994 "The newest disc begins with a composer who has never appeared on records or even on the BBC broadcasts listed in Timothy Day's Tudor discography: not even Hugh Kellyk's dates and place of work are known, and only two of his works ..." the Magnificat by

Tonus Peregrinus , the wandering tone, or the ninth tone, is a reciting tone in Gregorian chant. The chant example here is not identified as the ''tonus peregrinus'' in the ''Liber usualis'' (see LU, pp. 760–761), although it is in Aeolian mode. For the ' ...

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