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SKU: A0.1333731
Composed by David W. Barber. A Cappella,Christian,Early Music,Jazz,Medieval. 25 pages. David W. Barber #920028. Published by David W. Barber (A0.1333731).I wrote this piece in 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary
of the Toronto Chamber Choir, a fine early music choir I have sung with since 1998.
Using the opening of the well-known Gregorian chant Gaudeamus omnes (and changing
the text to "let us rejoice in music," Gaudeamus is a five- minute musical history tour
through the various time periods the TCC sings. It begins with plainchant, then two-voice
organum of the 11th-century Notre Dame school of Leonin and Perotin, followed by
three-voice hocket of a slightly later period. Then a nod to the 15th-century Dufay motet
Nuper rosarum flores (which the TCC has performed.) Next comes some 16th-century
Tudor music -- Byrd, say -- including some false relations and a typical English cadence.
Then comes an allusion to Purcell, specifically the pleasing dissonance of the “voice of the
Turtle” from My Beloved Spake. Then comes a little Bach-like fugue (or fughetta) based on
the Gaudeamus motif. Since the TCC rarely performs Classic/Romantic repertoire, we
jump immediately to a jazzy ending in compound meter -- imagine Byrd meets Brubeck,
based on one of my own earlier pieces for solo piano, but with elements of the Gaudeamus
melody. And all that in five minutes. Phew!
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