Quemadmodum
Vocal score
Published on 25. November 2010
Other
Sheet music
16 pages
978-0-19-395028-3 (ISBN)
Description
for SATTBB unaccompanied
None of the sources of this piece has a text; however, the title clearly suggests a link with Psalm 42 - 'Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks'. The editor, Tim Symons, has skilfully added the text here to make a ravishing piece which would be suitable for service use, or in concert, perhaps as a companion to Howell's much-loved setting of the same text.
None of the sources of this piece has a text; however, the title clearly suggests a link with Psalm 42 - 'Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks'. The editor, Tim Symons, has skilfully added the text here to make a ravishing piece which would be suitable for service use, or in concert, perhaps as a companion to Howell's much-loved setting of the same text.
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Series
Edition
Vocal score
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 298 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
44 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-395028-3 (9780193950283)
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Persons
John Taverner (c.1490-1545) was one of the leading Tudor composers of the late medieval style. Despite his prominence, the details of his life before 1524 are unknown, though in this year he served as a lay clerk at the collegiate church in Tattershall, Lincolnshire. Soon after, Taverner sang for the nearby Church of St Botolph in Boston, before holding the post of Organist and Master of the Choristers at Cardinal College, Oxford (later Christ Church) from 1526 until 1530. He then returned to Boston but his later life is mostly unknown. Taverner was admonished in 1528 for activity associated with the Lutherans, though escaped punishment for being 'but a musician'. The majority of his surviving musical output dates from the 1520s, and mostly comprises sacred motets, masses (notably the Western Wynd Mass) and other liturgical settings. Unlike his predecessors, Taverner's music began to display continental influence through his adoption of a smoother and less ornate contrapuntal style.