MUSI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Book Of Common Prayer, Viol, The Tallis Scholars
25 May 2016
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Breaks with pope to divorce catherine of aragon and marry anne boleyn. Act of uniformity makes english book of common prayer book. Church of england composers: thomas tallis, william byrd. Wrote catholic music, then had to switch and write protestant music (still considered himself catholic: orlando gibbons, thomas weelkes. Two principal forms of anglican music: service. Setting of morning (matins) and/or evening prayer (evensong) and/or communion (just kyrie and credo set: anthem. The catholic church reacts to the reformation: loss of england, netherlands, germany, austria, bohemia, poland, hungary, spearheaded by pope paul iii. Council of trent (big meeting that took place over many years; happened in trent, italy) Negotiations about what types of changes: decided to rid polyphonic music, decided to not mix high and low brow music. Secular cantus firmi (chansons) as basis for mass. Who was pope marcellus ii? (reigned for 20 days in 1555) The council of trent wanted to get rid of polyphonic music.
