Byrd

Question 1

Evidence of Byrd’s traditional catholic background

Answer 1

Organist at Lincoln cathedral there is evidence

Question 2

Career path

Answer 2

Chorister at Westminster - Chapel Royal

Question 3

Which important figure gave Byrd Patronage

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 4

English music - Short & Third service features (3)

Answer 4

Largely homophonic; antiphonal effect from dec and can; syllabic

Question 5

Second service

Answer 5

Full organ accompaniment, Anglican style, elaborate form exploited by Gibbons later for example, the record of john

Question 6

1575 Cantione Sacre (2)

Answer 6

Latin music - first full commercial publishing of volume of polyphony

Question 7

Who did Elizabeth allow to compile songs for Cantione Sacre? and Who was it for?

Answer 7

Both Byrd and Tallis, for a private devotional audience, not the church

Question 8

Features of Cantione Sacre? (4)

Answer 8

Not Marian, first latin music of Byrd, not much demand though - printing problems? also works by Tallis in a more elaborate style

Question 9

Byrd and Recusants (3)

Answer 9

Moved to Essex to write for recusants, supported by EoWorcester, Wife fined constantly for catholicism

Question 10

Ne Irascaris (4)

Answer 10

for secret worship, 5 part imitations, homophony, textual repeats for rhetorical effect

Question 11

Mass for 3 voices (4)

Answer 11

Latin mass punishable by death, unique cause no masses for 40 years, duos and trios for 8 voices, some emphatic homophony