The Clerks’ Group is a favorite a cappella singing ensemble dedicated generally to Medieval and Renaissance-era vocal works. It includes eight performers, but in early stages performed with only six. The number of most from the compositions the group performs spans in the eleventh hundred years to the finish of …

The Cardinall’s Musick is among England’s highly acclaimed early music choral ensembles. It is an expert in pre-Reformation British vocal and choral music, though they have sung repertoire as latest as the Gloria of 20th hundred years French composer Francis Poulenc. The Cardinall’s Musick was founded in 1989 by Andrew …

Christ Church may be the oldest and most widely known of Oxford’s schools. The Cathedral started being a monastery founded in the 8th hundred years by St. Frideswide. In 1546, the monastery, after having offered being a priory and Cardinal University, was united using the Discover of Oxford and set …

Thomas Weelkes continues to be known as among the great brands in the flowering from the Elizabethan madrigal, within a course with Morley, Wilbye, and Gibbons. Unlike a lot of his well-known contemporaries, nevertheless, Weelkes never appears to have offered the royal home in London, rather eking out a full …

The Choir of Trinity University Cambridge has probably one of the most ancient histories of any music organization, actually predating the founding of the faculty itself by 229 years. King’s Hall was founded as a university at Cambridge by Ruler Edward II in 1317 and integrated therefore by Edward III …

Although John Playford did publish volumes on politics and miscellaneous subject matter he’s best remembered for the music functions that appeared due to his efforts. Elevated in a big category of scribes, his disciplined commitment to his function was molded with a genuine and lifelong devotion to God’s divine support. …

The career of Thomas Tallis, Gentleman from the Chapel Royal, spanned an interval of spectacular change in the British liturgical climate. Created early in the sixteenth hundred years, his first musical visit was as organist to a Benedictine (Catholic) Priory in Dover, 2 yrs before Henry VIII’s definitive break with …

A author of sacred works, John Amner had a close association towards the Ely Cathedral — even before his employment there as Informator choristarum (1610 – 1641) — through his loved ones, Michael and Ralph Amner, who have been both lay down clerks there. He received his bachelor of music …

From the mid-1440s, Britain had lost all the French lands gained under Henry V and Henry VI, as well as the island kingdom itself would quickly be embroiled in the Wars from the Roses. The cross-fertilization between British and Continental music that this profession of France permitted, however, in some …

Instead of locating the lead singer for a preexisting rock band, that was the purpose of the CBS reality Television show Rock and roll Star: INXS, the next season of Rock and roll Star, Rock and roll Star: Supernova, sought out a vocalist to front the supergroup of drummer Tommy …