Robert Carver

Robert Carver (c.1485-c.1570), was a Scottish Canon regular and composer of Christian sacred music during the Renaissance.

Carver spent much of his life at Scone Abbey. A recently rediscovered charter book for the abbey, with upwards of 50 examples of Carver's signature, suggests that he spent the whole of his long life as a canon there, having entered the community in 1508 and living there until the establishment was destroyed by Protestant reformers in 1559.

He is regarded as Scotland's greatest composer of the 16th century and is best known for his polyphonic choral music, of which there are five surviving masses and two surviving motets. The works that can definitely be attributed to him can be found in the Carver Choirbook held in the National Library of Scotland.…more

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	Scotland's Music: A History of the Traditional and Classic Music of Scotland from Early Times to the Present Day by John Purser 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Scottish Arts: An Outline by John MacNair Reid (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1951 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of Robert Carver and Two Anonymous Masses by Kenneth Elliott 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Musick Fyne: Robert Carver and the Art of Music in Sixteenth Century Scotland by D. James Ross 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles by Katherine Buchanan (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cencrastus No. 64 by Raymond J. Ross (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Radio Plays of 1991: The Giles Cooper Award Winners by Robin Glendinning (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scotland: A Concise Cultural History by Paul Henderson Scott (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars