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I just bought Spem in Alium, the 40 part Tallis motet. Absolutely amazing. Almost like Vaughan Williams before his time.

Anyone interested in Renaissance choral-type music, and if so what exactly? I love the stuff, it's got a quality nothing's quite got to in the intervening 3 centuries between them and the Romantics.

We were going to perform it this coming Ash Wednesday at my church, but… we don't have enough time to prepare it.

Missae Papae Marcelli is brilliant with the post-Trent scoring, almost like an orchestra. I never get tired of the theme in Byrd's 3-part Mass either.

I just bought Spem in Alium, the 40 part Tallis motet. Absolutely amazing. Almost like Vaughan Williams before his time.

Anyone interested in Renaissance choral-type music, and if so what exactly? I love the stuff, it's got a quality nothing's quite got to in the intervening 3 centuries between them and the Romantics.

I'm very much interested in it. One of the most fun choirs I've ever been in was the Renaissance chamber group I sang with throughout college, and I've rarely met a madrigal or motet I didn't like. :)

("Spem in Alium," incidentally, is really freaking cool. I've never gotten the chance to perform it, but I certainly hope to at some point.)

i always get historical periods mixed up. i play baroque, romantic and classical guitar. are those part of the rennaissance period? or are they later?

oh, choral music? not a huge fan myself, never mind.

Battle of Hastings -> Renaissance -> Baroque -> Classical -> Romantic -> Now.

I'm not actually acquainted with the former - the name's familiar, but I don't believe I've ever heard it. I got it off iTunes. The Kyrie is amazing.

And what the fuck is it with my replies appearing before your posts?

We were going to perform it this coming Ash Wednesday at my church, but… we don't have enough time to prepare it.

Yeah, it is one that probably takes a wee bit of work to put together. ;)

Missae Papae Marcelli is brilliant with the post-Trent scoring, almost like an orchestra. I never get tired of the theme in Byrd's 3-part Mass either.

I'm not actually acquainted with the former - the name's familiar, but I don't believe I've ever heard it. The Byrd mass, on the other hand, I have both heard and liked very much. (For that matter, I'm not sure I can think of any Byrd I don't like. He probably wrote something terrible at some point in his career, but if so, I've never heard or sung it.)

I got it off iTunes. The Kyrie is amazing.

I shall add it to my long list of works I need to buy at some point. The life of a poor musician is a hard one, filled with tracks I can't really reasonably afford to download if I also want to eat. Woe!

And what the fuck is it with my replies appearing before your posts?

That does seem to be happening with a bizarre degree of consistency, doesn't it? Silly Jolt.

I just bought Spem in Alium, the 40 part Tallis motet. Absolutely amazing. Almost like Vaughan Williams before his time.

Classic. I heard that once in a music class. I wish I had a copy of it.

Love it. I'm going to go see Spem in Alium live in 2 weeks hopefully :)

Some of my favourites: Byrd - Ave Verum Corpus, Lotti - Crucifixus (8 part), Allegri's Miserere mei is good despite being performed wrongly almost always

Concerning the intervening periods, Bruckner wrote some good motets, and Requiems by several people have some good bits in, but I kind of agree, not until maybe Stanford does good choral music start up again. What do you like in 20/21st century choral music? I like Britten, Howells, Walton, and more recently I've got into Whitacre.

I really need to join a better a cappella group sometime...the one I'm in currently does mainly works with orchestra, which are good themselves, but I'd like to have a balance and be in 2 choirs.

I'm already getting my recommended daily allowance of monk-like choral chants from the Halo franchise, so I think I'll pass. :p

Almost like Vaughan Williams before his time.

Probably because a lot of Vaughan Williams' compositions were variations on actual renaissance music, Fantasia on Greensleeves being the most obvious that comes to mind.