Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia
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Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
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ISBN : 1135865647
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Page : 252 pages
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ISBN : 1135865647
Author : Kerry Robin McCarthy
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Music
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William Byrd's Gradualia, a set of liturgical music published in 1605 and 1607, is one of the most important compositions of the English Renaissance. Byrd composed this collection based on the Roman Catholic liturgy at a time when this religion was illegal in England, and the performance of its liturgy was punishable by fines, imprisonment, or even death. Not only was it surprising that the normally politically careful Byrd chose to create a liturgical work, but it also went against his usual practice of taking a free approach to text setting â¬" changing words or inserting additional text as he saw fit to suit his music. The Mass cannot be changed; and much of its text is not very inspiring. The challenge, then, to the composer was to find musical inspiration in a text that must be rigidly followed. The resulting work is one of the most unusualâ¬"and often misunderstoodâ¬"collections in the English repertoireKerry McCarthy has undertaken to study how Byrd approached this task, its meaning both musically and philosophically/religiously. Combining both the cultural history of the dangers faced by Catholics who practiced their religion at this time with a very close reading of how Byrd created this work, McCarthy creates a book that will interest musicologists, religious historians, and students of Elizabethan English culture.
Author : John Harley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317011465
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Author : Dominic Janes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351874039
Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so has it received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader cultural significance. Contributors to this book focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had for over six hundred years. The collection's essays consider connections between landscape and the sacred, the body and sexuality and Walsingham's place in literature, music and, more broadly, especially since the Reformation, in the construction of cultural memory. The historical range of the essays includes Walsingham's rise to prominence in the later Middle Ages, its destruction during the English Reformation, and the presence of uncanny echoes and traces in early modern English culture, including poems, ballads, music and some of the plays of Shakespeare. Contributions also examine the cultural dynamics of the remarkable revival of Walsingham as a place of pilgrimage and as a cultural icon in the Victorian and modern periods. Hitherto, scholarship on Walsingham has been almost entirely confined to the history of religion. In contrast, contributors to this volume include internationally known scholars from literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology and musicology as well as theology.
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Page : 21 pages
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Release : 1963
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Author : Jeremy L. Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783270829
The author offers close examination of the English-language songs of Byrd published in the late 1580s, looking at the music, texts, politics, and other aspects of the songs.
Author : Mr John Harley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 140949408X
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Author : Emma Hornby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 1843835355
Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry. The major themes of the essays in this collection reflect the work of the distinguished scholar John Caldwell, professor of music at Oxford University and a composer in his own right. There is a strong focus on early music, with contributions considering the medieval carol, sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harpsichord music, and the transmission of fifteenth-century English music to the Continent; but they range right up to the twentieth century, with an examination of music in Oxford. All are concerned in one way or another with themes which recur in Professor Caldwell's scholarship: sources; style; performance; and historiography. Contributors: SALLY HARPER, DAVID HILEY, EMMA HORNBY, HARRY JOHNSTONE, MARGARET BENT, DAVID MAW, MATTHIAS RANGE, REINHARD STROHM, PETER WRIGHT, MAGNUS WILLIAMSON, JOHN HARPER, SIMON MCVEIGH, CHRISTOPHER PAGE, OWEN REES, SUSAN WOLLENBERG, JOHN ARTHUR SMITH, BENNETT ZON, DAVID MAW. To subscribe to the Tabula Gratulatoria for this volume, CLICK HERE
Author : Simon Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009098063
The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert's religious verse.
Author : Nathan Mitchell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0814795919
Ultimately, Mitchell employs the history of the rosary as a lens through which to better understand early modern Catholic history."--BOOK JACKET.