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- From: inr@eccles.caltech.edu (I. Neill Reid)
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- Subject: re: Brumel review
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:50 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- Two points - first, the cantus firmus comes from the Easter antiphon
- `Et ecce terrae motus'
- second, a question for Todd McCromb - in the original review, he spoke
- of the parts being divided unequally (3:1:5:3, from memory). The
- notes to the Huelgas performance, however, specifically cite 4 sections
- of 3 voice: 3 treble, 3 high tenor (not countertenor/alto), 3 `normal'
- tenor and 3 bass, with at least one of the high tenor parts ranging
- down to low A and the six middle parts contributing most of the
- polyphonic texture. What was the source of the unequal scheme?
- (presumably that groups 2 high-tenors with the other tenors).
-
- One really striking features of the Huelgas recording (well, I think it's
- more obvious here than in what I heard of the Tallis Scolars) is the way that
- simple (4-6 note) motifs are passed back and forth amongst the parts -
- particularly in the Credo, which at various points sets up what can only be
- described as standing waves of sound.
-
- Neill Reid - inr@eccles.caltech.edu
-