Robert Wylkynson (sometimes Wilkinson) (ca. 1450 –

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after 1515) was one of the composers of 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 ...

. Wylkynson became parish clerk of Eton in 1496, then in 1500 he was promoted to ''Informator'' - the master of the choristers. Only four works survive: * 2x

Salve Regina The "Salve Regina" (, ; meaning 'Hail Queen'), also known as the "Hail Holy Queen", is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. The Salve Regina ...

* Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13 * motet ''O virgo prudentissima'' (fragmentary) But these works show Wylkynson to have been "an extremely ambitious composer and a more than competent one."Hugh Benham Latin church music in England, c. 1460–1575 1977 Page 95

Recordings

*Salve Regina Eton Choirbook Vol. I

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 ...

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*Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Vol. III

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*Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. on ''À 40 Voix''.

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Paul Van Nevel Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out lit ...

. HMC 801954 *Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook

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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