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Musica Antica present a soundscape of Florence from the dying days of the primacy of Lorenzo the Magnificent, through the brutal rise and fall of the preacher Girolamo Savonarola, and into the restoration of the Medici at the start of the sixteenth century. Influenced by Director Oliver Doyle's doctoral research on music, lifestyle and ethics in fifteenth and early-sixteenth century Italy, this programme will be told through the eyes of a young Florentine Woman, Marietta Pugi, who was gifted a book of songs - all of which are beautiful, but many obscene - around the year 1500.Contrasting the amorous - sometimes scandalous - nature of secular music of the period with the complete rejection of most forms of music by Savonarola (architect of the Bonfire of the Vanities), this programme combines jewels of fifteenth century polyphony, simple plainchant and laude with secular lute songs and carnival music preserved in Marietta's songbook. It is a pleasure to be joined by Emma-Lisa Roux, who will perform these in the manner in which Marietta might have: self accompanied on the lute.
As ever, a bar selling wine, soft drinks and Holy Trinity's famous home-infused gins will be open from 7pm.
This concert will finish at 9:10pm. Please note that this concert will take place on a Sunday evening, rather than our usual Saturday. This is to allow Emma-Lisa to join us, and to avoid several clashes with fellow concert series in London the night before.
Tickets (£10/£2) are available on our website. We do our best to ensure nobody hoping to purchase a ticket on the door is turned away, but do please book in advance, or reserve a ticket by emailing [email protected] to avoid disappointment.
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Johannes Ockeghem: Ma bouche rit
Meschine su chut
Johannes Martini: Missa Ma bouche rit
Alexander Agricola: Fortuna desperata
Alexander Coppinus: Lanzi man star cozone
Anonymous: Io sono il Gran Capitano della Morte
Heinrich Isaac: Quis dabit caput meo aquam (lament for Lorenzo de' Medici)
Plainsong: Ecce Quam Bonum
Josquin: Parfons regretz
Nymphes, nappés
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Emma-Lisa Roux soprano and lute
Camilla Seale mezzo soprano
Tristram Cooke countertenor
Oliver Doyle tenor
Joachim Sabbat bass
Sarah Small viols
Harry Buckoke viols
Peter Martin lute
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Holy Trinity Church, Bryan Road, Rotherhithe, SE16 5HF London, United Kingdom, Nexus Security Systems, Holy Trinity Vicarage, Bryan Road, London, SE16 5, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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