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And not in the least bit worried. Sorry, but could you explain that please. We are a local choir who are practising a number of madrigals and tenors are involved, so music for their part would be a great help!
Come Sirrah Jack Posted on April 30, by lewesclassical. Facebook Twitter Email Print Reddit.
This entry was posted in Repertoire. May 2, at May 3, at 7: May 5, at 8: January 31, at 1: January 31, at 2: One of the finest composers of the late British Renaissance, Thomas Weelkes earned his degree at New College, Oxford, and spent much of his career at Chichester Cathedral as a singer, organist, conductor, composer, and teacher. Our first taste of Weelkes is the rowdy smoking song Come Sirrah Jack, ho , which sounds about as close to modern barbershop as late 16th century music can get.
In Come Sirrah , the middle voice in effect operates in a different meter from the others, perhaps replicating the vertigo one might feel from too much tobacco. Weelkes was also a prolific composer of service music for the Church of England, but much of it was lost.
His tremendous talent as a madrigal composer helps convey the text through chromaticism and subtle word-painting. Little is known about Pierre Certon: Certon played an important role in the development of the 16th century French chanson. One of the most diverse and prolific composers of all time, the Franco-Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso developed his international style by traveling throughout Europe as a youth in the service of the Gonzaga family.
At age 24, with several posts already on his resume, Lassus gained a position at the Bavarian court in Munich, where he would remain for the rest of his life. As Hofkappellemeister , Lassus made Munich the most famous and lavish musical center in Europe.
Published in , the two-part motet Beati omnes qui timent Dominum shows an earlier, less chromatic side of Lasso. Giving each phrase of the psalm its due, Lasso flows effortlessly from one texture to another, indulging in occasional word painting along the way. Full of irony and affect painting, he displays a mastery of textures that alternate between polyphony and homophony.
Musicologists believe that, despite its Spanish home, the manuscript originated in Aquitaine, the home of some of the earliest musically developed polyphony. The piece we present is a troped, or altered, version of a Kyrie. Lobo worked in a variety of styles, ranging from High Renaissance imitative counterpoint to early Baroque polychoral homophony. The moody, contemplative music departs from the more blatant imitative polyphony of his earlier days. A master of light madrigals, Thomas Vautor flourished in the early years of the 17th century, and most likely was based in Leicestershire, where he worked for George Villiers, the notorious Duke of Buckingham who may have had an amorous relationship with James I.
All of his extant works are contained in a single volume, dedicated to Villiers. Like many composers of chansons and madrigals, Pierre Passereau was widely praised in his time, but little is known about him.
He is best known for lively, rhythmic works full of repeated notes and syllabic text settings that describe a situation or a story. Listen for the onomatopoeic imitation of hens clucking. Often mistakenly linked to the Burgundian Court, he actually worked all over Europe, including Cambrai and Italy. Dufay composed his monumental isorhythmic motet Ecclesiae militantis for the coronation of Pope Eugenius IV on March 11, What makes this work particularly grand is the number of voices — normally there are three, but here we have five.