Music of the Tudor Church

The history of the Tudor Church, from Henry’s infamous break with Rome to the eventual Anglican Church of Elizabeth is a complex patchwork of reformation and counter-reformation, idealism and ignorance, personal ambition and political treachery. It therefore comes as no surprise to find that the church music of the Reformation period is particularly diverse in both style and religious content.

“Uplifting” — Otago Daily Times

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Programme

Motet: Miserere nostri: Thomas Tallis
Motet: Videte Miraculum: Thomas Tallis
Hymns: Four Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter: Thomas Tallis

Anthem: O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth: William Byrd
Gradual: Haec Dies: William Byrd
Motet: Ne irascaris, Domine: William Byrd

Motet: Libera nos, salva nos: John Sheppard

Interval

Anthem: O Lord, the maker of all thing: William Mundy

Anthem: O clap your hands together: Orlando Gibbons
Hymns: Hymns and Songs of the Church: Orlando Gibbons

Motet: Christe qui lux es et dies: Robert White

Introit: O nata lux de lumine: Thomas Tallis

8pm, Sunday 21 February 1987
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin

dir. Simon Ravens

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