What music did the kings and queens of England listen to? - Music from Tudor England
We're learning about the music from England during the High Renaissance and how it weaved around the history of the Tudor Monarchs. We'll learn what music the kings and queens listened to and how their history shaped the music itself.
Introduction (0:00)
Henry's Issues (0:43)
Henry's Issue(1:41)
Thomas Tallis (2:20)
Tallis' music for Henry VIII and Mary I (3:29)
Tallis' music for Edward VI (4:16)
Tallis' music for Elizabeth I (5:26)
William Byrd (7:13)
Cross/False Relations (8:25)
Byrd's secret masses (12:48)
The Verse Anthem (14:42)
Conclusion (18:04)
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I forgot to add in the translation for "O Salutaris Hostia." I think it helps understand Byrd's setting a lot more: O saving Victim, Who expandest the door of heaven, Hostile armies press, Give strength; bear aid.
Terrific video! I love Tallis and Byrd!
@KeepitClassical
3 жыл бұрын
Same! This is one of my favorite periods of music!
You’re royalty Matt!! Thanks for the lovely well researched video. :)
@KeepitClassical
3 жыл бұрын
Awwww, shucks! Thanks for watching!
Great video. I'm no novice in this subject but I learned a lot. What you said about the relation between Tallis and Byrd is absolutely right: the pupil surpasses his master. Beautiful music examples also. BTW those books in the lower righthand corner of your shelf are those the Burkholder History of Western music?
@KeepitClassical
3 жыл бұрын
There are definitely some interesting teacher/student relations throughout music history. We're definitely going to talk about others. As for the books, yes, Burkholder is there and is one of my sources. You should watch my previous video about my sources to see what else is there.
So Byrd used the Hendrix chord. Cool 😎
I found the chameleon-like shifts by Tallis to be very interesting. I've sung masses by Byrd but the editions must have expunged some cross-relations because I don't remember anything quite as alarming as your example. The effect seems to be to obscure the arrival of a cadence, so that the really major cadential landmarks are fewer and more emphatic.
Thank you very much. I find your presentations much more appealing than reading one of the numerous textbooks on my music shelf and then running off to fish for examples. I am an elderly person and am determined to fill my remaining years with listening to a very expanded repertoire. You are a wonderful mentor. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the video. But besides thorough research and seamless presentation, I did get a kick out of Byrd's woodcut portrait looking somewhat like it'd been yassified, c. the 7:10 mark! 😂
Excellent vid thanks
Great content, thanks so much for putting this music into a historical context
What a pleasure; thank you.
I just want to get together and sight-read renaissance music now. Also, why did English composers favor that cross relation so much? Just a cool sound they liked?
@KeepitClassical
3 жыл бұрын
Few things are as satisfying as sight-reading Renaissance music! As for why the English favored cross relations so much when their continental counterparts didn't, I'm not quite sure. When you see where English composers put them, many of them are on special words or at cadences (both internal and external). It seems like they were trying to call attention to something specific, but why they chose this aesthetic to call attention? Not sure. I'll try and do a little digging and find more.
@RubenJavierTovarEsparza
Ай бұрын
@@KeepitClassicalI recently saw a video from Early Music Sources about the false Relations. Apparently, it's more complicated than just "Continental composers don't like it, English composers do". There were some Continental composers like Monteverdi that did use false Relations, and some English theorists, like Morley, who didn't. In his "plain and easy introduction to music", he wrote that these false Relations were in an old and stale manner, and that the major composers of England (apparently not including Tallis and Byrd) didn't use it. I know, it's confusing and doesn't really line up. If those two composers were the main composers of England, and if Morley even mentioned Byrd in that same book, why does he say they didn't like it if their music does include it?