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With the publication of these two volumes The Byrd Edition is brought to completion. Unhappily Philip Brett, the general editor and himself the editor of eight of the twenty volumes, did not live to see them in print, but he had the satisfaction of knowing that work on them was well advanced before he died. Although his General Preface contains a succinct account of the origins of the edition, it will be useful to recall them here in a little more detail. Edmund Fellowes and his publishers Stainer & Bell did English music an immense service during the first half of the twentieth century in making available their two remarkably comprehensive series of English madrigals and lute songs and the first attempt at a complete edition of Byrd. Naturally the volumes were not free of errors, and when Thurston Dart was appointed musical adviser to the publishers in 1953 he undertook to revise them as reprints became necessary.
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