Fount and Origin - A New Star Shall Arise: Music for Christmas in Medieval England at St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford on Wednesday 27th November 2019

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Fount and Origin - A New Star Shall Arise

Music for Christmas in Medieval England

Add to my Calendar 27-11-2019 20:00 27-11-2019 22:00 36 Fount and Origin - A New Star Shall Arise 'A New Star Shall Arise' will transport you back to the wintery cathedrals and now-ruined abbeys of medieval England for an evening of musical splendour from the Middle Ages. We will perform rare and often surprising musical treasures written for the Christmas season from the 13th-15th centuries, including the anonymous Missa Veterem Hominem of the mid-15th century, which luckily survives in a manuscript copied not in England, but on the continent. Indeed, the surviving sources of polyphony in England from the late-Middle Ages are far rarer than those on the continent. This is in part due to the fact that, for many centuries, notated polyphony was cultivated and copied mostly within the great English monastic communities, whose libraries were largely destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries from 1536. The soaring melodies of Sarum plainchant, the energetic drama of 13th- and 14th-century motets and conductus, and the great beauty of 15th-century settings will all be brought back to life in this very special Christmas programme. St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

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

Wednesday 27th November 2019
8:00 PM

Programme

Anonymous – There is no rose

Performers

James Tomlinson – Artistic Director

Fount & Origin

Programme Note

'A New Star Shall Arise' will transport you back to the wintery cathedrals and now-ruined abbeys of medieval England for an evening of musical splendour from the Middle Ages. We will perform rare and often surprising musical treasures written for the Christmas season from the 13th-15th centuries, including the anonymous Missa Veterem Hominem of the mid-15th century, which luckily survives in a manuscript copied not in England, but on the continent. Indeed, the surviving sources of polyphony in England from the late-Middle Ages are far rarer than those on the continent. This is in part due to the fact that, for many centuries, notated polyphony was cultivated and copied mostly within the great English monastic communities, whose libraries were largely destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries from 1536.

The soaring melodies of Sarum plainchant, the energetic drama of 13th- and 14th-century motets and conductus, and the great beauty of 15th-century settings will all be brought back to life in this very special Christmas programme.

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