Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book

Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book

'Elizabeth Rogers Virginal Book' is a musical commonplace book compiled in the mid-seventeenth century by a person or persons so far unidentified. Of all the so-called English "virginal books" this is the only one to mention the name of the instrument (the virginal) in the title, the others being so-called at a far later date.

Read more about Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book:  The Manuscript, Contents

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