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FRIDAY 4 APRIL 10:00 *The RAMline - Rewriting Musical History*
at the The Second International Topic Maps Users Conference (2-4 APRIL)
"The scale and nature of this project are ideal to demonstrate fully the benefits of topic maps." Kal Ahmed (NetworkedPlanet)
http://www.topicmaps.com/tmc/conference.jsp?conf=TM2008
"The RAMline is a unique multi-dimensional index of music and musicians linked to local digitized archives and other online resources, such as manuscript sources and published editions, live performances and recordings, musical criticism and comment. This index can be used to display a timeline of musical history and the life-cycle of any piece of music, from antiquity to the present, as well as to chart musical profiles of individuals and organizations. It is multi-dimensional in that the index can be explored from the perspectives of people, works, places, events, and dates; it is unique in that the connections between musicians and musical works are categorized in a rigorous yet flexible ontology which makes sense of the processes and products involved."
Antony Pitts, John Drinkwater, Hannah Riddell (Royal Academy of Music)
http://www.topicmaps.com/tmc/program.jsp?conf=TM2008
FRIDAY 18 APRIL 19:30 St Peter & St Paul’s Church
(Kościół pw św. Piotra i Pawła),
ul. Mikołowska 32, Katowice, Silesia, Poland
SATURDAY 19 APRIL 19:00 Bazylika NMP,
ul. Kościelna 1, Sosnowiec, Silesia, Poland
SUNDAY 20 APRIL 19:00 Trinity Church
(Kościół Św.Trójcy), ul. Kwietniewskiego 1, Bytom, Silesia, Poland
3rd Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki International Old Music Festival
*The Mass and the Passion – the earliest complete polyphony*
Anonymous (early 14th-century): The Mass of Tournai
Anonymous (early 15th-century): St Luke Passion
TONUS PEREGRINUS
Rebecca Hickey, Lisa Beckley, Kathryn Knight, Andrew Olleson
Matthew Long, Alexander Hickey, Mark Anderson
Francis Brett, Nick Flower
Antony Pitts (director)
The Mass of Tournai and this English setting of the St Luke Passion are vital parts of our musical heritage - these are the earliest surviving choral settings of the Mass and the Passion (a little like looking at yourself in faded photographs as a small child). This is the music that inspired Guillaume de Machaut to write his own setting of the Mass, and that ultimately led to Passion settings from the Eton Choirbook to J.S.Bach, and in our own time, Arvo Pärt's iconic 'Passio'.
The earliest complete polyphonic settings of the Mass and the Passion that have come down to us are the 14th-century Mass of Tournai from what is now Belgium, and an English St Luke Passion from the early 15th-century 'Windsor' Manuscript. Both settings are anonymous and in three-voice polyphony, and the six movements of the Mass of Tournai reflect both the old-fashioned and the more up-to-date practices of ars antiqua and ars nova. The St Luke Passion displays characteristic English sweetness in its harmony, as well as unexpectedly dramatic responses to the events of the 24 hours from the Last Supper to Jesus' short-lived entombment: islands of polyphony rise up in a sea of ritual plainchant to bring home the story of Peter's denial, Pilate's uncertainty, and the thief's penitence; the crowd and the soldiers jeer and heckle, while Jesus' words are delivered with total serenity - until the final cry of "Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit".
This year's festival (III Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Dawnej im.Grzegorza Gerwazego Gorczyckiego: 5-30 APRIL 2008) consists of 21 concerts in 14 cities in Silesia and focuses on the oldest musical forms of liturgy.
more info: http://www.gorczycki.pl
admission: entrance is free
In case you can't make it... the CD is on special offer at:
http://shop.thewelcomestranger.org/the-mass-of-tournai-12-p.asp
Thank you for listening,
and Happy Easter!,
Antony Pitts
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