A NEW ART

Do you love Early Music? Would you like to wind down after work with some polyphony? Join us for our small, inspirational Early Music workshops with Founder and early music specialist, Scott Inglis-Kidger. ​

In this season of Early Nights we explore the work of composers spanning the early and middle periods of the Renaissance (1420-1520). Over this period of a hundred years, together we will perceive a huge change in style from the music of Dunstable to that of Josquin Desprez. In c.1440 the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg. This was to change the course of musical history, and would have a profound effect on the way choral composers structured their pieces. It also had an impact on the amount of amateur music-making, and on the reach of choral music in general. Choral music became simpler in style; clarity of text was favoured over the floridity of isorhythmic melismas widespread in the Middle Ages. In around 1475 Johannes Tinctoris, a Flemish scholar, coined the term “a new art” to describe the newly streamlined music of this period, particularly that of Dunstable. This ‘new art’ was just a glimpse of what was to come in the late Renaissance period.

MONDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER 2018, 19:30-21:30
Guillaume Dufay | Urbs beata Jerusalem
Alexander Agricola | Regina coeli laetare
Pierre de la Rue | O salutaris hostia

MONDAY, 8TH OCTOBER, 19:30-21:30
Jean Mouton | Alleluia, confitemini Domino
Pierre de la Rue | Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes

MONDAY, 22ND OCTOBER 2018, 19:30-21:30
Josquin Desprez | Salve Regina
Gilles Binchois | A solis ortus, cardine 
Johannes Ockeghem | Ave Maria

MONDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2018, 19:30-21:30
John Dunstable | Descendi in hortum meum
Heinrich Isaac | Invocabit me 
Jean Mouton | In illo tempore

MONDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER 2018, 19:30-21:30
Johannes Ockeghem | Alma Redemptoris Mater
Pierre de la Rue | Ave Regina caelorum
Jean Mouton | Ave Maria, gratia plena

MONDAY, 10TH DECEMBER 2018, 19:30-21:30
Josquin Desprez | Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi
Jean Mouton | Quaeramus cum pastoribus

VENUE: St Barnabas Church, St Barnabas Street, London SW1W 8PF
COST: £20 per evening (includes music and break time refreshments)

Applications for this series have now closed, but please do contact us if you are interested in joining.