{"id":1411,"date":"2010-02-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/02\/in-praise-of-polyphony-music-for-mondays\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:09:51","slug":"in-praise-of-polyphony-music-for-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/02\/in-praise-of-polyphony-music-for-mondays.html","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Polyphony (Music for Mondays)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>You can blame this article<\/a> and my good friend (and frequent YIMC commenter) James for this post. Seal and the immortal Stevie Ray Vaughn will have to step aside for a week, to make way for Palestrina, Clemens non Papa, Byrd, and 20th-century composer Eric Whitacre. This is music as it was meant to be, four hundred years ago. I could imagine Warren Jewell tapping his feet to this stuff, if it had a beat.\u00a0
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We begin with the Nunc Dimittis, <\/i>set to music by Giovanni Pierluigi di Palestrina (1525\u20131594). <\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>Next up, \u201cEgo Flos Campi\u201d by Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510?\u20131555?).<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stile Antico - British vocal ensemble - sings Clemens non Papa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z-Hoir0wnD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Here\u2019s \u201cVigillate\u201d by William Byrd (1540?\u20131623).<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Tallis Scholars - William Byrd - Vigilate\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uo9OnbLLnfE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Finally, here is a 20th-century example of polyphony, Eric Whitacre\u2019s \u201cLux Aurumque.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lux Aurumque - Westminster Cathedral Choir\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jNVK9TqLRY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-946929162074154636?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can blame this article and my good friend (and frequent YIMC commenter) James for this post. 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