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Bruno Turner
Pure Gold: An occasional collection in honour of Bruno Turner in the year of his 80th birthdayForthcoming:
Book: Pure Gold: Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberian World. A Homage to Bruno TurnerThis collection of essays was conceived as an homage to Bruno Turner who has done so much to promote knowledge of sacred music of the Golden Age Iberian world. As choral director, editor and broadcaster, Turner brought this music to the attention of the wider musical public and made it available to choirs all over the world through his specialized publishing firm, Mapa Mundi. Scholars of Iberian sacred music are equally indebted to him for his research, especially on sources, plainchant and liturgy of the Iberian Peninsula and the New World; indeed, he can be considered the eminence grise of musicology in this field. The essays by seventeen scholars, all of whom have been influenced by and are indebted to his lifes work, bring together the latest research and thinking on wideranging aspects of sacred music by Iberian and Hispanic American composers in three main areas: sources and repertories; music and liturgy; motets and musical tributes. These contributions, which enrich and deepen current knowledge of Iberian music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, are framed by a Prelude by the composer Ivan Moody and a Postlude that takes the form of an interview between Turner and the writer, critic and translator Luis Gago. 
List of EditionsA list of editions produced by Bruno may be downloaded here (pdf). Hispaniæ Cantica SacraA series of informative practical editions of Iberian liturgical chant and polyphony, edited by Bruno. 
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BRUNO TURNER, freelance choral director and musicologist, was born in London in 1931. He was raised in Roman Catholic music and Latin liturgy and is self-educated in music research. He was a church choirmaster 1952 - 1973 and a director of Pro Musica Sacra from 1956 - 1964, Pro Cantione Antiqua 1968 - 2002, and Coro Cappella 1977 - 1984. In 1977 he and Martyn Imrie co-founded Mapa Mundi, publishers specialising in Iberian sacred music of the Renaissance. Bruno is also vice-president of the Renaissance Society and Singers; President (from 2007) of The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (founded in 1888); member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Plainsong and Medieval Music (Cambridge University Press); and a regular contributor to BBC Radio broadcasts from 1959 - 1980. He has produced over sixty LP and CD recordings for DGG Archiv, Das Alte Werk, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion and many others. He has also pursued a full career as a commercial businessman, as Managing Director of his family firm, until his retirement in 1996.