Please note that music files that are linked to are not necessarily the same edition we will be using on the day and therefore there may be some slight differences.
Tallis If ye love me or YouTube link SATB
We last sang this at the annual dinner in 2016.
Thomas Tallis served in the Chapel Royal for some 40 years, composing under four monarchs with widely differing religious practices. His output encompasses early and late sixteenth-century English styles and his career reflects the religious upheaval and political change that affected church music of this period. He was among the first to set English texts for the rites of the Church of England and managed to avoid religious controversy despite quietly remaining a Catholic. During the reign of King Edward VI (1547-1553) it was mandated that the services be sung in English, and that the choral music be brief and succinct: 'to each syllable a plain and distinct note'. If Ye Love Me is the perfect example: mainly homophonic, but with brief moments of imitation. Like many early Anglican anthems, it is cast in ABB form, with the second section repeated.
Cavendish Come, gentle swains or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
We last sang this in January 2016.
This lovely piece is from The Triumphs of Oriana.
Tomkins Adieu ye city-prisoning towers or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
It looks as though we have never sung this before.
Ford Since first I saw your face or YouTube link SATB
This was sung at both the 2016 and 2017 Summer garden parties.
From Music of Sundry Kinds of 1607 - although as this was a collected publication the actual composer is unclear but is unlikely to be Ford himself!
Wilbye The Lady Oriana or YouTube link SSATTB
We last sang this in February 2014
Greaves Come away sweet love or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
This was last sung at the 2016 summer party.
A lovely, graceful piece, one of the four madrigals published in Songs of sundrie kinds in 1604.
Please note that music files that are linked to are not necessarily the same edition we will be using on the day and therefore there may be some slight differences.
Tallis If ye love me or YouTube link SATB
We last sang this at the annual dinner in 2016.
Thomas Tallis served in the Chapel Royal for some 40 years, composing under four monarchs with widely differing religious practices. His output encompasses early and late sixteenth-century English styles and his career reflects the religious upheaval and political change that affected church music of this period. He was among the first to set English texts for the rites of the Church of England and managed to avoid religious controversy despite quietly remaining a Catholic. During the reign of King Edward VI (1547-1553) it was mandated that the services be sung in English, and that the choral music be brief and succinct: 'to each syllable a plain and distinct note'. If Ye Love Me is the perfect example: mainly homophonic, but with brief moments of imitation. Like many early Anglican anthems, it is cast in ABB form, with the second section repeated.
Cavendish Come, gentle swains or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
We last sang this in January 2016.
This lovely piece is from The Triumphs of Oriana.
Tomkins Adieu ye city-prisoning towers or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
It looks as though we have never sung this before.
Ford Since first I saw your face or YouTube link SATB
This was sung at both the 2016 and 2017 Summer garden parties.
From Music of Sundry Kinds of 1607 - although as this was a collected publication the actual composer is unclear but is unlikely to be Ford himself!
Wilbye The Lady Oriana or YouTube link SSATTB
We last sang this in February 2014
Greaves Come away sweet love or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
This was last sung at the 2016 summer party.
A lovely, graceful piece, one of the four madrigals published in Songs of sundrie kinds in 1604.
Please note that music files that are linked to are not necessarily the same edition we will be using on the day and therefore there may be some slight differences.
Tallis If ye love me or YouTube link SATB
We last sang this at the annual dinner in 2016.
Thomas Tallis served in the Chapel Royal for some 40 years, composing under four monarchs with widely differing religious practices. His output encompasses early and late sixteenth-century English styles and his career reflects the religious upheaval and political change that affected church music of this period. He was among the first to set English texts for the rites of the Church of England and managed to avoid religious controversy despite quietly remaining a Catholic. During the reign of King Edward VI (1547-1553) it was mandated that the services be sung in English, and that the choral music be brief and succinct: 'to each syllable a plain and distinct note'. If Ye Love Me is the perfect example: mainly homophonic, but with brief moments of imitation. Like many early Anglican anthems, it is cast in ABB form, with the second section repeated.
Cavendish Come, gentle swains or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
We last sang this in January 2016.
This lovely piece is from The Triumphs of Oriana.
Tomkins Adieu ye city-prisoning towers or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
It looks as though we have never sung this before.
Ford Since first I saw your face or YouTube link SATB
This was sung at both the 2016 and 2017 Summer garden parties.
From Music of Sundry Kinds of 1607 - although as this was a collected publication the actual composer is unclear but is unlikely to be Ford himself!
Wilbye The Lady Oriana or YouTube link SSATTB
We last sang this in February 2014
Greaves Come away sweet love or YouTube link Also in the Oxford Book of English Madrigals SSATB
This was last sung at the 2016 summer party.
A lovely, graceful piece, one of the four madrigals published in Songs of sundrie kinds in 1604.
