SKU: ST.EC54
ISBN 9790220222023.
This is an important addition to the pair of consecutive EECM volumes of John Sheppard's Latin compositions for the Use of Salisbury published in the 1970s. Although he had evidently mastered the forms of Mass and votive antiphon, the composer is at his most characteristic in his settings of the plainsong melodies which form the bedrock of the Sarum liturgy. These account for most of the contents of this volume, together with free-composed settings of Biblical texts and a small corpus of devotional polyphony, most of it fragmentary. In general, textural richness is cultivated in preference to long arcs of melisma, and perfect time is favoured over imperfect, creating a directness of expression that seems to typify mid-Tudor polyphony. The format of this volume follows EECM's house style for post-Reformation composers.
SKU: ST.EC17
ISBN 9790220213748.
The music of John Sheppard, who was about ten years younger than Tallis, dates from the uncertain times of the Reformation and the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. Perhaps his most impressive work is to be found in his cantus firmus responds, which reflect the considerable musical importance that some choral foundations attached to Matins and Vespers on special feast-days in the last decades of the Sarum rite.
SKU: ST.W39
ISBN 9790220218439.
ATB. Edited and adapted for men's voices by E H Fellowes.
SKU: ST.M701
ISBN 9790220218446.
SSA or T. Revised by Thurston Dart.
SKU: ST.EC18
ISBN 9790220213731.
Taverner and Tye are the predominant influences in these works. The 6-part Mass Cantate is taken from the Oxford partbooks. The source for The Western Wind Mass, The Frences Mass, the Mass Be not afraid , and the Plainsong Mass for a Mean, all in four parts, is the so-called 'Gyffard' partbooks (British Library Add. MSS 17802-5), which are now known to have been copied after ElizabethAs accession for a Catholic patron, Dr Philip Gyffard, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
SKU: ST.EC30
ISBN 9790220216626.
Ritual music for the Office and for associated non-liturgical devotions appears in no comparable body of work by an earlier English composer - and from later composers, only in the surviving output of Tallis and Sheppard. Typically, these pieces alternate polyphony and plainsong, not recorded in the sources, but here supplied from the Salisbury Antiphonal, Gradual or Processional. Four of Taverner's secular songs are also included. Quemadmodum are also included.
SKU: ST.EC51
ISBN 9790220222344.
This volume, the second of two devoted to the 16th-century 'Gyffard' partbooks, typifies the collection as a whole in the wide variety of liturgical types and compositional procedures on display. There are Jesus Mass propers built on plainsong cantus firmi, Mass ordinaries based on 'squares', Magnificat settings freely composed or using the canticle tone or its faburden, antiphons in honour of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, the setting of a tract (virtually unprecedented in the history of English polyphony), prayers, and even office responds masquerading as votive antiphons. The composers include Alcock, Bramston, Hoskins, Johnson, Knyght, Mundy, Sheppard, Henry? Stoning, Tallis, Whytbroke, Van Wilder, Wright and Anon. Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files...
SKU: ST.MB7
ISBN 9790220201288.
The contents include anthems for the coronation of James II and for the coronation of William and Mary, plus three anthems with strings. Musica Britannica's collections of his work have done much to increase our appreciation of this influential figure in 17th-century English music. String parts for four of the anthems are available for rental. CONTENTS Anthems for the Coronation of James II * God spake sometimes in visions (SSAATBBB and organ continuo) * Let thy hand be strengthened (SATB and optional organ) * Behold, O God our defender (SSATB and optional organ)Anthems for the Coronation of William and Mary * Behold, O God our defender (SATB and optional organ) * Let my prayer come up (SATB and optional organ) Three Anthems with Strings * And I heard a great voice * I said in the cutting off * The Lord is my Shepherd
SKU: ST.EM35B
ISBN 9790220211652.
Organist of St George's, Windsor, and successor to the famous Marbecke, Mundy was amongst the earliest of the English madrigalists. There are 12 madrigals in this collection, ranging from Of all the birds, a tribute to William Byrd, to In deep distress and the tragic setting of words written by Chideock Tichborne on the eve of his execution in the Tower of London, My prime of youth. The volume also contains 25 psalms in three, four, and five parts. CONTENTS As I went walking (SAT) Blessed art thou (SAT) Have mercy on me, O Lord (SSATB) Hear my prayer, O Lord (STB) Heigh Ho! 'chill go to plough (SSAB) I lift my heart to thee (SSAT) In deep distress (SATB) In midst of woods (SSATB) Lightly she whipped o'er the dales (SSATB) Lord arise and help thy servant (SSATB) Lord to thee I make my moan (SATB) My prime of youth (SATB) O all ye nations (S (or A) AT) O come let us lift up our voice (SAT) O Lord of whom I do depend (SSAT) O Lord turn not away thy face (SAT) Of all the birds (SAT) Penelope that longed (SSATB) Praise the Lord, O my soul (SAT) Save me, O God (SAT) Sing ye unto the Lord (SSAT) The black-bird made (SSATB) The longer that I live (SSAT) The Shepherd Stephon (S solo, A. viol, T. viol, B. viol) Thus art thou bless'd (SAT) Turn about and see me (SA (or T) T) Unto thee lift I up mine eyes (SSATB) Were I a king (SATBB) Who loves a life (SSATB) Witness ye heav'ns (S solo, A. viol, T. viol, B. viol) Ye people all in one accord (SAB).
SKU: ST.EM7
ISBN 9790220218507.
CONTENTS A silly Sylvan (SSAAT) Ah cannot sighs, nor tears? (SSAAA (or T) B) Ah, cruel Amarillis (SST (or A)) All pleasure is of this condition (SSAT (or A) B) As fair as mourn (SAA (or T)) As matches beauty (S (or A) S (or A) TB) Change me, O heavAns (SSA (or T) B (or T)) Come shepherd swains (SSA (or T)) Despite thus unto myself (SSA (or T) A (or T) T (or B) B) Down in a valley (SSATB) Draw on sweet night (SSAA (or T) TB) Flourish ye hillocks (SST) Fly not so swift, my dear (SA (or S) A (or T) B (or T)) Happy streams whose trembling fall (SST (or A) T) Happy, oh happy he (SA (or S) A (or T) B) Hard destinies are love and beauty (SSATB) I live, and yet me thinks (S(or A) S(or A) T) I love, alas, yet am not loved (SSA (or T) B) Long have I made these hills (SSAATB) Love not me for comely grace (SAA (or T) T) O what shall I do? (SST (or A)) O wretched man (SSAT (or A) T (or B) B) Oft have I vowed (SSATB) So light is love (SSA (or T)) Softly, O softly, drop my eyes (SSAATB) Stay, Corydon, thou swain (SSATTB) Sweet honey sucking bees (SSAAB) There is a jewel (Risposta) (SST) There where I saw (SSATB) Weep, weep mine eyes (SSA (or T) TB) When Cloris heard of her Amyntas (S (or A) S (or A) A (or T) T) Where most my thoughts (SSA (or T) A (or T) T (or B) B) Ye that do live in pleasures (SSAA (or T) B) Yet, sweet take heed (SSAAB).
