From the historian’s point of view the Old Hall manuscript is truly a feast after a famine. About a
hundred of its 147 pieces carry attributions, naming no fewer than twenty-four composers, so that we have
more English musical names from this period to conjure with (even if many of them are nothing but
names) than we have from any other country. And of all these names, it is fair to say that one has conjured
up a fascination to equal all the rest combined: “Roy Henry,” French for “King Henry,” a royal composer!
EX. 11-12 Pycard, Gloria, mm. 25–48