@maddramaqueen They reply: "One half of the #byrdathon -- all of (flickr 30.05.2013. of william byrd's latin church music in a popular pakistani drama series."

So, now that we've done Byrd, who's up for some Orlando di Lasso?

There are "only" 516 motets in the posthumous #MagnumOpusMusicum (1604)

(BTW, Did everyone hear about the discovery of 37 pages of proofs for #MOM last year??? That's HUGE in the #HistoryOfTheBook realm for #music -- our first discovered example of how it was done!)

https://rism.info/rediscovered/2021/03/15/proofs-orlando-di-lasso-magnum-opus-musicum.html

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It's also nice to be settled in with a composer on an anniversary year; for Byrd, of course, it's the 400th anniversary of his death this year.

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In fact, it was those very features of melodic line and cadential pattern that my brain picked up on, and I had auditory hallucinations of bits 16th c polyphony at bedtime. My brain was translating the hum of the air filters into pitch and then doing something with it -- after all, that's what it had been practicing all the live-long day

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I enjoyed the experience (well, maybe not so much the 2a start this morning; transatlantic timezones complicate life), and would absolutely listen to a #byrdathon again. To cover 180 motets (well, plus the 3 masses) at one go gives you a deep reminder of the ebb and flow of melodic line and cadential gesture.

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And so that's the 16 hours of music from the #byrdathon: It's a wrap!

There is something abt listening to "all" of something that fits a category of satisfaction in the soul. I suppose it's like owning a complete run of a book or TV series; a full collection of "different but the same"
that addresses our human pleasure in smaller-level changes within a context of a kind of predictability. To listen to "all" of Byrd's Latin music, then, is "experiential" collecting

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https://fb.watch/iugeqXrCcx/

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https://fb.watch/itQLoBiK8S/
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A reminder that we're back in for the second half of the #byrdathon -- all of William Byrd's Latin church music in a 24 hour period:

https://www.facebook.com/stmarymagdalen.oxford/live_videos

#EarlyMusic #StreamingConcerts #YouShouldWatch
#Byrd #400YearAnniversary

https://www.facebook.com/stmarymagdalen.oxford/videos/550859827007874/
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#byrdathon is live!
https://www.facebook.com/stmarymagdalen.oxford/videos/550859827007874

Less than two hours! #byrdathon

#EarlyMusic followers with a love for William #Byrd, the #byrdathon starts TODAY — in less than six hours! #live-streamed! The complete Latin works of Byrd!

#Oxford 🎶 #Byrd #Byrdathon
Fri/Sat (3 Feb 17:00-00:00 & 4 Feb 08:00-17:00 GMT)
🎼16hrs 🎶

180 motets, 3 masses, 70 singers.
See: http://tinyurl.com/Byrd2023
Livestream:https://m.facebook.com/stmarymagdalen.oxford