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This is a meeting for VdGS members. Non-members are welcome to attend and leave a donation.John Bryan will investigate two Elizabethan manuscript anthologies containing textless music suitable for viols: Lbl R.M.24.d.2, John Baldwin's 'Commonplace Book' and Lbl Add. MS 31390, set out in table book format. This manuscript has a Chichester connection, and contains several pieces by Clement Woodcock, a composer whose career brought him to Chichester Cathedral to work as organist there for some years.
David Force will share with us his research about the Consort Organ, a distinctive type of seventeenth-century English chamber organ that was principally used in conjunction with consorts of viols and violins at the royal court, in aristocratic households, and in other mainly secular contexts during the Jacobean and Stuart periods.
As the third element of the meeting, we hope to arrange a recital by a young professional viol player.
The meeting will be followed by a 6pm concert in the same chapel, given by Rose Consort of Viols. The programme for this hour-long concert 'A store housse of treasure' will focus on music featured in the two Elizabethan anthologies dealt with earlier in the day, including In nomines and textless 'songs' by Tallis, Tye and some of their continental contemporaries. Tickets will be available at the door.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Johns Chapel, Chichester, United Kingdom