Taverner
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- Created on: 24-11-13 12:19
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- Taverner- O Wilhelme, paster bone
- When?
- 1528
- Where?
- Oxford
- For what purpose?
- Song written in honour of 12 century Saint Williams
- Commissioned by Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII
- Musical features indicative of the style
- This work was written to honour a previous Archbishop William of York.
- It is essentially a sung prayer and is in Latin as England was at the time Roman Catholic.
- It was intended to be sung A cappella by an all male choir.
- This work has all the hallmarks of early English Church music including varied textures, modality and root position and 1st inversion chord.
- Vocabulary
- A cappella- unaccompanied
- Syllabic- one syllable per note
- When?
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