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My Bonny Lass She Smileth
My bonny lass she smileth is a famous English ballett, written by Thomas Morley and published in 1595 in his ''First Book of Balletts to Five Voices''. A ballett was the English form of the Italian balletto, a light, homophonic, strophic song for three or more singers, distinguished by dance-like rhythms and "fa-la-la" refrains. It is based on an Italian madrigal, published by Gastoldi in 1591 (see ref 1 and supporting recording). The ChoralWiki gives the following words for the two opening verses. :My bonny lass she smileth, :when she my heart beguileth. :Fa la la la... :Smile less, dear love, therefore, :and you shall love me more. :Fa la la la... The song was parodied by Peter Schickele (https://www.schickele.com/composition/twomadrigals.htm) (writing as P.D.Q. Bach) as: :My bonny lass she smelleth :Making the flowers jealouth. :Fa la la la... The ballett is of form AABB and is in mode 7, the Mixolydian. References Phillip Ledger (ed) ''The Oxford Book of English Madrigals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morley
Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the English madrigal, ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' states that Morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music." Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, Morley was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. Morley was active in church music as a singer, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He was also involved in music publishing. From 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastoldi
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 4 January 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He is known for his 1591 publication of ''balletti'' for five voices. Career Gastoldi was born at Caravaggio, Lombardy. In 1592 he succeeded Giaches de Wert as choirmaster at Santa Barbara's, Mantua, and served until 1605 under the Dukes Guglielmo and Vincenzo Gonzaga. According to Filippo Lomazzo, Gastoldi became choirmaster at the Duomo, Milan, afterwards, but other considerations seem to make this point doubtful. Works Gastoldi composed several books of madrigals, a variety of sacred vocal music, and a few instrumental works. Particularly noteworthy among his secular vocal works is his ''Quarto libro de' madrigali a cinque voci'' (1602), which consists almost entirely of settings of texts from Battista Guarini's hugely popular "pastoral tragicomedy" ''Il pastor fido'' (The Faithful Shepherd). According to Gastoldi himself, at least one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ChoralWiki
The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is a sheet music archive which focuses on choral and vocal music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder). It is a 501(c)(3), tax-deductible organization, whose contents are published under a specific copyright license, and editing articles can be allowed only for registered contributors. Overview The site CPDL.org was launched in December 1998 by Rafael Ornes. In 2005 CPDL was ported, or converted, to wiki format, and is known as ChoralWiki.Main Page ''www3.cpdl.org'', accessed 6 November 2021 In July 2008, Ornes stepped back from the site administration and turned the operational responsibilities to a group of the site administrators. A transition committee was formed which subsequently incorporated CPDL as a no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Schickele
"Professor" Peter Schickele (; born July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator, and parody, parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called ''Schickele Mix''. From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P. D. Q. Bach recordings earned him four consecutive wins for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. Early life Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, United States, to Alsace, Alsatian immigrant parents. His father, Rainer Schickele (1905, Berlin – 1989, Berkeley, California), son of the writer René Schickele, was an agricultural economist teaching at Iowa State University. In 1945, Schickele's father took a position at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; then, in 1946, became chairman of the Agricultural Sciences Department at North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University) in Fargo, North Dakota. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oxford Book Of English Madrigals
''The Oxford Book of English Madrigals'' was edited by Philip Ledger, and published in 1978 by the Oxford University Press. It contains words and full music for some 60 of the madrigals and songs of the English Madrigal School. When selecting works for this book, Ledger decided to represent the major composers of 16th-century English music such as William Byrd and Thomas Morley with several madrigals, alongside individual works by lesser-known composers. Ledger collaborated with Andrew Parker, a musicologist from King's College, Cambridge, who researched texts to the songs and supplemented the collection with annotations and critical commentary. In 1978, the choral group Pro Cantione Antiqua released a recording, directed by Ledger, of selected songs from this book. Contents The collection contains the following madrigals: ''(*) = second parts'' See also * Early music of the British Isles *''The Triumphs of Oriana ''The Triumphs of Oriana'' is a book of English madrigals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Pro Cantione Antiqua of London (PCA) is a British choral group which was founded in 1968 by tenor James Griffett, counter-tenor Paul Esswood, and conductor and producer Mark Brown. Their first concert was at St Bartholomew's, Smithfield with Brian Brockless conducting but, from an early stage, they were closely associated with conductor and musicologist Bruno Turner. Arguably, they were the leading British performers of a cappella music, especially early music, prior to the founding of the Tallis Scholars. Singers have included: * countertenors: Paul Esswood, Tom Sutcliffe, Geoffrey Mitchell, James Bowman, Keith Davis, Timothy Penrose, Kevin Smith, Michael Chance, Ashley Stafford, Richard Hill and Charles Brett. * tenors: Paul Elliott, James Griffett, James Lewington, Ian Partridge, Ian Thompson and Andrew Carwood. * basses: David Beavan, Ian Caddy, Brian Etheridge, Michael George, Christopher Keyte, Christopher Underwood, Stephen Roberts, David Thomas and Adrian Peacock. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Madrigals
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