Contact:
Vickie Hamilton-Smith, School of Fine Arts, (785) 864-9742.
LAWRENCE -- "In dulci jubilo: Early Music for the Christmas Season" will be
presented by the Instrumental Collegium Musicum and Vocal Collegium Musicum,
with the Oread Consort and KU men's and women's consorts, at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Bales Organ Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 for adults and
$5 for students and seniors at the door.
The program is a survey of Renaissance music mostly related to the
Christmas story. Included are a Gregorian chant setting of "Alma Redemptoris
Mater" from the 12th century; "Ave Regina Coelorum" by Guillaume Dufay, one
of the first great composers of the Renaissance; and "Alleluia Psallite"
from the Montpelier Codex.
The program also includes motets by Antoine Busnois, Antoine Brumel, Thomas
Crecquillon and Jacob Clemens non Papa, who represent several generations of
the Franco-Flemish school of composers that dominated Renaissance polyphonic
composition throughout the 15th century and into the early 16th century.
Crecquillon's motet "Gabriel angelus apparuit" is presented in an
instrumental version, a practice used at various religious institutions
during the 16th century, where instruments often doubled voices and
sometimes played such motets without voices.
"Ecce virgo concipiet" by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck of Amsterdam represents
the last generation of the great northern European composers of the
Renaissance.
Spanish composers from the 16th century wrote villancicos, Christmas pieces
with Spanish texts to be used in religious services and processions. Four
villancicos, which include jaunty and dance-like rhythms, are included on
the program by Francisco Guerrero, who worked for many years at Seville
Cathedral, and Pedro
Ruimonte, who worked for the Spanish governors in the Low Countries.
The distinctive English school of the Renaissance is represented with a
carol and three instrumental fantasias by William Byrd, the finest English
composer of the period, and with a setting of "Almighty and Everlasting God"
by Orlando Gibbons, renowned in his day as both a keyboard player and
composer.
For more information, contact the KU Department of Music and Dance at
864-3436.
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