As its name suggests, Byrd’s 1589 volume of songs titled Songs of Sundrie Natures varies widely in scoring, style, and mood. Byrd’s preface says that he is “desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke,” and he offers the book as a musical compilation “to […]
ARTEK Early Music presents: Byrd 1589 – Songs of Sundrie Natures I Read More »
Jouyssance pays homage to two giants of the English Renaissance who died in 1623: William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes. The program will feature Byrd’s beloved Mass for Four Voices and Weelkes’ popular madrigal honoring Queen Elizabeth I, As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending. Plus enjoy beautiful motets and sometimes hilarious madrigals by both composers.
“Byrd and Weelkes and Quadricentennial” Read More »
RenChorNY under Dr. Richard Porterfield returns to “Choralis Constantinus“, as in our 1959 LP, and the great Hapsburg Court work created for Maximilan I, the Brilliant six part “Virgo Prudentissima”, the Glorious five part Marian hexachord fantasy “O decus ecclesiae Virgo”, the Lyrical Song of Solomon: “Tu pulchra es”, and the Humanistic (folk-themed) “Missa
RenChorNY presents the Music of Heinrich Isaac for Church and State Read More »
Piffaro’s 39th subscription season, the second under the artistic leadership of Priscilla Herreid, opens with a program provocatively titled The Year the Music Died. That year was 1623, when composers William Byrd, Thomas Weelkes, and Philip Rosseter all passed away within months of each other, and with them the era of Elizabethan music. Of her
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Jay Michaels has recently been elected to the position of President of The Historical Harp Society. The HHS promotes the exchange of ideas and information about early harps and encourages research on the building of early harps, harp music composed before the modern era, and the performance practices of those earlier eras relating to the
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