There are many good recordings of the cantiga Rosa das Rosas (CSM 10). For example, Kings & Beggars has a good one. Emilio Villalba has a great video .
The non-mensural notation setting is available, as are the Cantigas de Santa Maria manuscripts. I couldn’t find any modern setting that I really liked, so I did my own.
In 1567, Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker published a translation of the Psalms in verse. You can read more about it at http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Whole_Psalter_Translated_(1567) . Thomas Tallis wrote a collection of 9 tunes using the meters found in Parker’s verse, so that any psalm in the collection may be sung to one or more of the melodies.
I reset Tune 8 with Psalm 67 to better fit a modern choir.
The third tune was used by Ralph Vaughn Williams in his “Fantasy of a theme by Thomas Tallis”. Tallis used Psalm 2 as his example for that melody, but Psalm 23 would work with it also.
I’m planning the first rehearsal of a loud band with shawm and sackbuts (otherwise known as trombone). We’ll start with this piece by Susato.
La Mourisque for Trombone
La Mourisque for Recorders
The second piece will be Cantigas de Santa Maria #1
CSM1 for Sackbut
The third piece is Una Sanosa Porfia by Juan del Encina
Una sañosa porfía – bass clef
I have used two different arrangements of Una sañosa porfía. This is the better one.
Una sañosa porfía – 10 verses
I can’t keep track of the names of musical modes, so I put this Modes summary together from several sources.
I taught a class at King’s College 2016 on Elizabethan Music. These are the songs I used as examples.
Song Composer Year Album Artist Description
Vigilate
William Byrd
1589
English Renaissance
King’s Singers
Motet for 5 voices, from Cantiones Sacrae.
Browning My Dear
Clement Woodcock
1574
Elizabethan Consort Music, 1558-1603
Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall
Instrumental, string consort
Have I Found Her
Francis Pilkington
1613
All At Once Well Met: English Madrigals
King’s Singers
Madrigal
It fell on a summer’s day
Dr. Thomas Campion, lyrics; Philip Rosseter, music
1601
Campion: Elizabethan Songs
Drew Minter countertenor – Paul O’Dette lute
Voice and lute, bawdy song. From “A Book of Ayres”.
Tan tara ran tara cries Mars own bloody rapier
Thomas Weelkes
1608
Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band
Piffaro
Shawms and sackbut, originally a madrigal for 3 voices
All as a sea
William Byrd
1588
William Byrd: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs, 1588
Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke
Voice and string consort
April is in My Mistress’ Face
Thomas Morley
1594
The English Lute Song
Ron McFarlane Lute; Julianne Baird Soprano
Madrigal, Voice and lute
If ye love me
Thomas Tallis
1560
The Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis
The Tallis Scholars
Anthem, 4 part acapella, text from John 14: 15-17 (KJV)
The Agincourt Carol, or more properly Deo Gracias Anglia, can be found at:
http://stcpress.org/miscellaneous/deo_gracias/deo_gracias.pdf
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