Recordings by the Rose Consort of Viols
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
: A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Music
- Output identifier
- 51
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: 4 CDs
- Open access status
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- Month
- August
- Year
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- These CDs present research undertaken with the Rose Consort of Viols exploring the impact of different viols on music for which those instruments are specifically appropriate. The research amalgamates organology, iconography, collaboration with luthiers to develop suitable instruments, and discovering performance techniques, combining musicological inquiry with practical experimentation. Mynstrelles uses viols modelled on those depicted in a 1497 Bolognese altarpiece by Costa. Repertory was edited by Bryan from sources close to Costa: Petrucci prints and the Bolognese MS Q18, but also from Iberia and the court of Henry VIII, to show how ‘Costa’ viols could illuminate a range of early renaissance musics. Serenissima used viols by Richard Jones, modelled on a surviving Venetian instrument by Linarol, c. 1540. The research developed a playing style appropriate to these instruments. The music, with editions produced by Bryan, was from Italian sources contemporary with Linarol, music from German and French manuscripts demonstrating the transportability of instruments from Venice to a wider Europe. The viols used for Loquebantur and Exiled are modelled on extant English instruments from c. 1600 by Rose and Jaye. Loquebantur investigates how these instruments illuminate music copied by Baldwin (c. 1575–1581). Some of this is vocal in origin, the CD testing the hypothesis that such repertory passes fluidly between ‘sung’ and ‘instrumental’ categories. Exiled demonstrates the applicability of these instruments to music by Philips and Dering (c. 1580–1620), exactly contemporary with the viols on which the instruments are based. The originality of the research is demonstrated by the investigation of the instruments employed and their appropriateness for the repertories selected; its significance lies in challenging the conventional use of ‘all-purpose’ viols; its rigour inheres in the detailed process of preparation and rehearsal leading to the decisions documented in the recordings.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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