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Consort Songs Teares or Lamentacions of a sorrowfull Soule is the publication where Sir William Leighton uses the term consort song for the first time. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the genre of the consort song already appeared in certain collections from the 1580s, which contain several examples of a song-form for a high solo voice accompanied by four instruments. A few early four-part consort songs survive, but five-part texture seems to have become standard almost from the inception of this form. The consort song emerged from the assimilation and expansion of the English ayre and the highly popular Italian madrigale. To the simpler and ingratiating manner of the lute ayre, a more contrapuntal and expressive style of the madrigal was added. The musical importance of the consort song rests largely upon its development by the composer William Byrd, who regarded it as the standard means of setting vernacular poetry. In his songs almost every vocal phrase is anticipated, supported and imitated by a dense stream of notes that flows round it. Although Byrd presented most items in his published collections as fully vocal compositions, about half of them are in fact consort songs, which Byrd stated as being originally made for instruments to express the harmony, and one voice to pronounce the ditty. There will always remain an attractive amount of uncertainty when trying to reveal the beauty of a composition in all its colours. Searching for a favourable lighting means experimenting with historic tone colours and adding or omitting elements. Both the recorder and the soprano voice of a boy are known to have been established during the time of publication of consort songs, and the vocal part always lies within the range of a boys voice, either treble or mean (alto). Naturally these songs have had performances in more than one appropriate rendering, according to availability of different voices and instruments.
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Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - John Dowland, Composer - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist - William Wigthorpe, Composer
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - John Dowland, Composer - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - William BYRD, Composer - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - William BYRD, Composer - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - John Dowland, Composer - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Composer, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Thomas Tallis, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Richard Nicholson, Composer - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
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Anonymous, Composer - Richard Edwards, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Thomas Simpson, Composer
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Composer, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - William Cobbold, Composer - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Thomas Simpson, Composer
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Thomas Simpson, Composer
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist - Patrick Mando, Composer
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Thomas, Lyricist - Anonymous, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist - Lord Vaux, Lyricist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
John Jenkins, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - David Miller , MainArtist - ben jonson, Lyricist - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Alfonso Ferrabosco Jr., Composer - Connor Burrowes, Soloist, MainArtist
2006 Channel Classics Records 2006 Channel Classics Records
Album review
Consort Songs Teares or Lamentacions of a sorrowfull Soule is the publication where Sir William Leighton uses the term consort song for the first time. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the genre of the consort song already appeared in certain collections from the 1580s, which contain several examples of a song-form for a high solo voice accompanied by four instruments. A few early four-part consort songs survive, but five-part texture seems to have become standard almost from the inception of this form. The consort song emerged from the assimilation and expansion of the English ayre and the highly popular Italian madrigale. To the simpler and ingratiating manner of the lute ayre, a more contrapuntal and expressive style of the madrigal was added. The musical importance of the consort song rests largely upon its development by the composer William Byrd, who regarded it as the standard means of setting vernacular poetry. In his songs almost every vocal phrase is anticipated, supported and imitated by a dense stream of notes that flows round it. Although Byrd presented most items in his published collections as fully vocal compositions, about half of them are in fact consort songs, which Byrd stated as being originally made for instruments to express the harmony, and one voice to pronounce the ditty. There will always remain an attractive amount of uncertainty when trying to reveal the beauty of a composition in all its colours. Searching for a favourable lighting means experimenting with historic tone colours and adding or omitting elements. Both the recorder and the soprano voice of a boy are known to have been established during the time of publication of consort songs, and the vocal part always lies within the range of a boys voice, either treble or mean (alto). Naturally these songs have had performances in more than one appropriate rendering, according to availability of different voices and instruments.
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 00:50:42
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet David Miller Connor Burrowes
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Channel Classics
- Genre: Classical
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