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SUMMARY:Tradition and invention in the sacred music of William Byrd
DESCRIPTION:‘Framed to the life of the words’Tradition and invention in the sacred music of William ByrdAn online talk by David Allinson \n\n\n\nThursday 2 February 2023\, 7.30–9.00 pm \n\n\n\nWilliam Byrd died on 4th July 1623. This year is certain to see many workshops\, concerts and recordings celebrating his achievement. In this live Zoom talk David Allinson will take the opportunity to explore the elements that made Byrd the outstanding English composer of his generation. What did he inherit from early Tudor English music? What did he synthesise from contemporary influences? And what did he bequeath to following generations of musicians? \n\n\n\nFocusing on a selection of key pieces\, David will trace Byrd’s career\, from prodigiously talented apprentice soaking up styles and techniques inherited from Taverner and Tallis to Janus-like journeyman\, simultaneously the ornament of Elizabeth’s Chapel Royal and conscience of recusant Catholics. Finally\, in his last works we find a master composer seamlessly melding English and continental traditions to create sublime music in the service of his religious community. \n\n\n\nDavid will identify the elements that formed Byrd’s style and\, along the way\, try to explain why his music is frequently so tricky to sight-read! \n\n\n\nClick here to book online. \n\n\n\nDownload flier with further information.
URL:https://semf.org.uk/event/tradition-and-invention-in-the-sacred-music-of-william-byrd
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SUMMARY:Byrd and his contemporaries
DESCRIPTION:Directed by John Bryan\n\n\n\nScaynes Hill Village Centre\n\n\n\nSaturday 18 February 2023 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm\n\n\n\nWilliam Byrd died 400 years ago\, in 1623\, an octogenarian whose long life witnessed much change\, in the monarchy\, the church\, and in English society. A Gentleman of the Chapel Royal\, he served Queen Elizabeth and James I loyally\, but his sympathies lay with the Catholic recusants who continued to worship in secret in the pre-Reformation manner. As a musician he contributed masterpieces to virtually all the styles of his day: music for English services; mass ordinaries and Latin motets for his Catholic friends; songs for plays and for the home\, ranging from devout psalm settings to pastoral topics; instrumental consort music; and keyboard music. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will explore pieces from several of these genres: we will concentrate on parts of the Mass for Four Voices\, Latin motets and more ‘ceremonial’ Anglican Elizabethan music. We will also explore some of Byrd’s secular songs and the instrumentalists will also have the opportunity to give the singers a breather by working on one or two dance pieces. \n\n\n\nWe will adopt a practice that we know Byrd used on at least one occasion in 1580\, when he performed music for a recusant mass ‘with instruments’: appropriate instruments (viols\, violins\, recorders\, cornetts\, sackbuts\, well-behaved dulcians) are invited to join with the singers\, and there will be scope for lute or harp to supply continuo if players are happy to work from bass parts and/or scores. We will also put Byrd’s music into its historical framework by investigating pieces by his predecessors in Tudor England such as Philip Van Wilder and Thomas Tallis. \n\n\n\nPlease note: Altos now full. Room for two more tenors. \n\n\n\nOnline booking form\n\n\n\nFurther details and paper booking form
URL:https://semf.org.uk/event/byrd-and-his-contemporaries
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