Fount & Origin - Fumeux Fume at St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford on Thursday 20th June 2019

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Fount & Origin - Fumeux Fume

Add to my Calendar 20-06-2019 20:00 20-06-2019 22:00 36 Fount & Origin - Fumeux Fume Join us in St Mary Magdalen’s Church for a programme of dazzling French songs from the late 14th century, as well as the famous Messe de Nostre Dame by the great poet-musician, Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300 – 1377). The songs transmitted in the Chantilly Codex are known for their infamous rhythmic challenges, the often-abstracted approach to tonality, and their stunning beauty. Be transported back to fourteenth-century courtly culture with lyrics expressing unrequited love, mythology, battle-cries, and the smokiness of Parisian society! The Machaut Mass is the earliest surviving polyphonic mass cycle by a single known composer - its six extraordinary movements capture the height of sacred polyphonic technique in the mid-fourteenth century. The use of four-voice texture allowed for new and elaborate colours hitherto unknown to mass composition, and its sheer scale and invention is testament to the personal value this music most likely held for the composer towards the end of his life. Fount & Origin is an Oxford-based early music vocal ensemble of a dozen singers specialising in late-medieval and early-renaissance music. Directed by James Tomlinson. St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary Magdalen's Church
Magdalen Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3AE
England

Thursday 20th June 2019
8:00 PM

Programme

Various – Chantilly Codex
~ Interval ~
Guillaume de Machaut – La messe de Nostre Dame

Performers

James Tomlinson – Artistic Director

Fount & Origin

Programme Note

Join us in St Mary Magdalen’s Church for a programme of dazzling French songs from the late 14th century, as well as the famous Messe de Nostre Dame by the great poet-musician, Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300 – 1377).

The songs transmitted in the Chantilly Codex are known for their infamous rhythmic challenges, the often-abstracted approach to tonality, and their stunning beauty. Be transported back to fourteenth-century courtly culture with lyrics expressing unrequited love, mythology, battle-cries, and the smokiness of Parisian society!

The Machaut Mass is the earliest surviving polyphonic mass cycle by a single known composer - its six extraordinary movements capture the height of sacred polyphonic technique in the mid-fourteenth century. The use of four-voice texture allowed for new and elaborate colours hitherto unknown to mass composition, and its sheer scale and invention is testament to the personal value this music most likely held for the composer towards the end of his life.

Fount & Origin is an Oxford-based early music vocal ensemble of a dozen singers specialising in late-medieval and early-renaissance music. Directed by James Tomlinson.

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