Residential Study weekend 2006. Course director, Simon Lillysone, has provided the following detail of music studied during the weekend.


GREGORIAN CHANT

  • Sections from the Office of Compline (the last service of the day in the Catholic Church)

ENGLISH SACRED


  • Thomas Tallis - Procul recedant I - Voices only, from facsimile, sung alteratim with gregorian chant verses of the hymn "Te lucis anteterminum"

  • Thomas Tallis - Procul recedant II - Voices only, from facsimile, sung alteratim with gregorian chant verses of the hymn "Te lucis anteterminum"

  • Thomas Tallis - In manus tuas - voices only, from facsimile

  • William Mundy - Rerum creator omnium (contemporary English translation "O Lord, Maker of all thing")

  • William Mundy - Sive vigilem

  • William Byrd - Christ rising : Christ is risen again - six voices and four viols

  • William Byrd - Sing joyfully - Voices only

  • William Byrd - Christe qui lux es a4 - 'performed' alternatim with a single cantor and four viols

  • William Byrd - Great Service - Venite - Tutti voices and instruments

  • William Byrd - Great Service - Creed - Tutti voices and instruments

  • Orlando Gibbons - Almighty and everlasting God - Voices only

ITALIAN SACRED


  • Antonio Gardane - Missa Si bona suscepimus - various movements performed a capella

  • Adrian Willaert - Salva nos a6 - voices only - performed in context with accompanying antiphon chant and related Nunc dimittis

  • Andrea Gabrieli - Magnificat a8 - Tutti voices and instruments

  • Claudio Meruli - O rosa incorruptibilis - performed with voices and viols

  • Archangelo Crotti - Sancta Maria - Recorders (2 trebles and 1 bass plus 1 voice (alto)

ENGLISH SPIRITUAL SONGS


  • William Byrd - Ye sacred muses - 1 alto plus four viols (a lament ('nenia') on the death of Tallis

  • William Byrd - Triumph with pleasant melody - a dialogue between Christ and a Sinner - Consort Song - 2 alto voices plus 4 viols

ENGLISH SECULAR


  • Robert Jones - Are lovers full of fire (part I a7 : part II a8)

  • John Wilbye - Softly singing lute - voices and viols

  • Robert White - Two pavans for six viols

  • John Jenkins - Suite in d for 2 treble recorders plus bass recorder

  • John Dowland - Various Lachrymae - 5 viols