John Taverner

John Taverner (towards 1490 - October 18th 1545) is an English type-setter of the Renaissance.

Biography

One knows little thing of the life of Taverner. It was born in the county from Lincolnshire, perhaps around Tattershall.

In 1524 he is member, then main Chorus of Collegial of Tattershall in Lincolnshire.

In 1526 it is named Master of the Chorus ( Informator choristorum ) with Cardinal College in Oxford, shortly after its foundation by its guard the Cardinal Wolsey. The institution was equipped with a chorus of sixteen chorus-singers and twelve skilful clerks with the polyphony .

He was imprisoned in 1528 for heresy or sympathy Lutheran, like other members of the university and in spite of the protection of the Wolsey Cardinal. After the fall of this last, he resigns of his load in April 1530 and one is unaware of very his life until 1536.

It occupies another station with the church Saint Botolph of Boston in its native Lincolnshire as from 1537, for then withdrawing itself downtown notable there to die and be to bury under the tower of the church of the parish.

Taverner is undoubtedly the largest type-setter of the time of Henry VIII. That the topic of the In Nomime of the Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas crosses the history is the sign of its historical importance, but it is enough to count the innovations of the polyphonic texture which its works contain to consider the importance of it.

Works

Masses

the masses of Taverner do not comprise a Kyrie.
  1. Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas (6 votes) - the plainsong of in nominates of Benedictus was used per number of type-setters in instrumental parts (more than 150) since the first transcription for virginal appearing in an anthology of Thomas Mulliner. Then one finds it transformed for viols (into first, 21 times by Christopher Tye) or organ until Henry Purcell (see for example this disc).
  2. Missa Corona Spinea (6 votes)
  3. Missa O Michael (6 votes)
  4. Missa Sancti Wilhelmi (5 votes)
  5. Missa MATER Christi (5 votes) - the mass uses the motet MATER Christi Sanctissima like discussion thread.
  6. The Mean Farmhouse (5 votes)
  7. The Plainsong Farmhouse (4 votes)
  8. The Western Wynde Farmhouse (4 votes) - This mass quotes nine times a melody profane anonymous " Wynde" western; :
Wind of west, blows when you want!
the rain can fall well in fine drops.
Sky! so only my love was in my arms,
And if I were again wide on my layer!
It is treated according to the technique of the variation. The use of a profane song comes from the continent; in England it was rather of tradition to use a cantus firmus Gregorian or different. Christopher Tye and John Sheppard will give each one a mass on this same topic.

Fragments of masses

  1. Christ eleison (3 votes)

  2. Leroy Kyrie (4 votes)

Antiphonia Votive

  1. Ave Dei Patris filia (5 votes)

  2. Gaude plurimum (5 votes)
  3. O splendor gloriae (5 votes) - Antienne. According to a copyist died in 1615, John Baldwin, the second part could be of Christopher Tye.

Music for the office

  1. Alleluya. Veni electa (4 votes)

  2. Alleluya (4 votes)
  3. Te Deum (5 votes)

Motets

  1. Audivi vocem of caelo (4 votes)
  2. Ave Maria (5 votes)
  3. Dum transisset sabbatum (I) (4 or 5 votes) - Répons of Easter
  4. Dum transisset sabbatum (II) (4 votes)
  5. Ecce carissimi
  6. Ex ejus tumba - Sospitati denied aegro
  7. FAC nobis secundum hoc nomen (5 votes)
  8. Fecundata sine viro (3 votes)
  9. Hodie nobis caelorum rex
  10. In pace in idipsum (4 votes)
  11. Jesu spes poenitentibus (3 votes)
  12. Magnificat (4 votes)
  13. Magnificat (5 votes)
  14. Magnificat (6 votes)
  15. MATER Christi (5 voice)
  16. O Christe Jesu pastor bone (5 votes) - or " O Wilhelme, pastor bone". Taverner re-uses this antienne in its mass Sancti Wilhelmi (beginning and end of Gloria and in Agnus Dei).
  17. Prudens virgo (3 votes)
  18. Quemadmodum (6 votes or recorders) - Text: the first two verses of Psalm 41.
  19. Sancte deus (5 votes)
  20. Sub tuum presidium (5 votes)
  21. Tam peccatum (3 votes)
  22. Traditur militibus (3 votes)
  23. Virgo will pura (3 votes)

Profane works

  1. In disorder and adversity

  2. In women (2 votes)

Selective discography

  • Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Hyperion)
  • Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas, Leroy Kyrie - Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips (Gimell)
  • Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas - Taverner Choir, Dir. Andrew Parrott (1986, Emi " Reflex" CDC 7 49103 2)
  • Missa Sancti Wilhelmi - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Hyperion)
  • Missa MATER Christi Sanctissima - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Hyperion)
  • Missa MATER Christi Sanctissima and two let us antiphons - Christ Church Choir, Dir. Stephen Darlington (1989, Nimbus Records NOR 5218)
  • Missa O Michael - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (Hyperion)
  • Western Wind Mass (+ Tye & Sheppard) - Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips (Gimell)

External bonds

  • Some partitions of Taverner

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