6 January is the feast of the #Epiphany, so here is Vidimus Stellam, an early #17thCentury #motet for the day by William #Byrd, from #Gradualia, 1607.
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol
Vidimus stellam in Orientem, et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.
We have seen a star in the East, and have come with gifts to adore the Lord.
Image: Leonardo da Vinci - Adoration of the Magi, c1481 (Uffizi Galleries)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS0w42S4s&ab_channel=Passamezzo
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernmusic #recusant #williambyrd #williambyrd400 #byrd400 #violadagamba #consortmusic #consortsong #consortofviols #epiphany #threekings #threekingsday #3kings #3kingsday #Tudor #tudors #tudormusic #motet #jacobean #jacobeanmusic #sacredmusic #sheetmusic #elizabethan #elizabethanmusic #seventeenthcentury #17thCenturymusic #chiaroscuro #musicprinting
#histodon @histodon @histodons #histodons @earlymusic #otd #OnThisDay
#epiphany #17thcentury #motet #Byrd #gradualia #soprano #lute #viol #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernmusic #recusant #williambyrd #williambyrd400 #byrd400 #violadagamba #consortmusic #consortsong #consortofviols #threekings #threekingsday #3kings #3kingsday #Tudor #tudors #tudormusic #jacobean #jacobeanmusic #SacredMusic #sheetmusic #elizabethan #elizabethanmusic #seventeenthcentury #17thCenturyMusic #chiaroscuro #musicprinting #histodon #histodons #otd #OnThisDay
Listening to Fretwork's In Nomine album while working on this#MerchantOfVenice essay, which is about how the score for the 2004 film of the play uses faux-Christian and faux-Jewish music create power structures and "tragic Jewishness." #Viols #ViolaDaGamba #EarlyModernMusic #FilmMusic
#viols #violadagamba #earlymodernmusic #filmmusic
Some #EarlyMusic for #Thanksgiving.
They that in ships unto the sea down go - a setting of Psalm 107 from Henry Ainsworth's Book of Psalmes Englished, 1612, one of the music books carried on board the #Mayflower by Elder William Brewster.
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7eyqiZkCJM&ab_channel=Passamezzo
#violadagamba #EarlyModern #psalm #psalter #psalms #AmericanHistory #SeventeenthCentury #17thCentury #17thCenturyMusic #SacredMusic #PilgrimFathers #sailors #ships #youtube #youtubemusic #earlymodernmusic #youtubechannel #reformationmusic #separatists #thanksgiving2022
#earlymusic #thanksgiving #Mayflower #soprano #viol #violadagamba #earlymodern #psalm #psalter #psalms #AmericanHistory #seventeenthcentury #17thcentury #17thCenturyMusic #SacredMusic #PilgrimFathers #sailors #ships #youtube #youtubemusic #earlymodernmusic #youtubechannel #reformationmusic #separatists #thanksgiving2022