Taverner: Missa Corona spinea & Other Sacred Music
1/26/2024, 7 Tracks, 58:41
Featuring
Harry Christophers
The Sixteen
John Taverner
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Compositional Technique
Taverner's setting of In pace, a Lenten respond for Compline, is scored for 'three men and a child' (mean, two countertenors, and bass) and is based on plainchant.
Composer Biography
John Taverner, the composer, is thought to have been born around 1490 in Lincolnshire and was first documented in 1525 as a lay clerk at Tattershall.
Compositional Technique
In the Missa Corona Spinea, the cantus firmus is in the tenor, providing a foundation for both full sections and delicately scored reduced-voice passages.
Composer Biography
Taverner was appointed Informator (choirmaster) at Cardinal College (now Christ Church), Oxford, founded by Cardinal Wolsey, in 1526.
Compositional Technique
The Missa Corona Spinea conforms to English tradition by having only four movements, as the Sarum rite custom was to perform the Kyrie troped to plainchant.
Composition History
The Missa Corona Spinea is one of Taverner's three festal Masses, scored for six-part choir with high trebles and constructed over a cantus firmus.
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