April 18, 2012

Concert # 468 ~ Since Nov. 13, 2002 “Where friendship & music intersect” …a lways free!

Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m. th 1856 2012 13 & N Streets, Sacramento, CA 95814 156 years of service Fine musical talent - serving the local community - supported by the local community “Rest here, weary mind, feel the soft harmonies for my hidden anguish. Heal me, I implore Thee.” (Bach Cantata 210)

Simply

recorder players:

Kathryn Canan Mark Schiffer Elizabeth Young Glenn McGregor

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Apr 25 Jazz Guitarist Doug Pauly, Vocalist Meleva Steiert, bassist Matt Robinson, with Steve Roach /Flugelhorn

May 02 Pianist Melanie Bietz; Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and more May 09 Travis Brass; USAF Band of the Golden West plays Pops, Classics, Jazz, and more May 16 Soprano Robin Fisher; Pianist Hatem Nadim "The Art of American Song" May 23 Singer-Pianist Chris Goslow; classics, pops, rags, vocals May 30 Susan Lamb Cook, cello; Natsuki Fukasawa, piano; music of Brahms, Villa-Lobos, and Cassado

Jun 06 A jazz tribute to Doris Day; vocalist Laura Didier and the Jim Martinez Trio Jun 13Bay Area Pianist John David Thomsen; Bach, Beethoven, and more Jun 20 Mezzo Soprano Donna Olson and Friends Jun 27 Organist Katya Kolesnikova July 04 CHURCH CLOSED July 11 Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshop; Susan Lamb Cook, Director July 18 Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshop; Susan Lamb Cook, Director July 25 Matthew Grasso, 7-string guitar

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PROGRAM

Simply Renaissance Recorder Ensemble

Kathryn Canan; Glenn McGregor; Mark Schiffer; Elizabeth Young

Vive le Roy ...... ……………….………………...... Josquin des Pres (c. 1440/5–1521) Mille regrets El Grillo

Gais et jolis ...... ……………………..…………... Guillaume Machaut (c. 1300–1377)

Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen ...... …………...... (c.1445–1517) A la Bataglia Mit Lieb bin ich Umbfangen

La Fontana ……………..…………….………………….. Florentio Maschera (c.1540–c.1584) La Capriola

Ecco la Primavera ……………..……….….………………… Francesco Landini (1335–1397) Fa metter bando Musica Son

Tandernakken ...... ……………………………...... Jacob Obrecht (1450/1–1505) Tandernakken ...... …………..………….…...…………. Ludwig Senfl (c. 1486–1542)

Gagliarde del Principe di Venosa …………….………………... (1566 –1613) Galliarde de la Guerre …………….………………………...Claude Gervaise (ca. 1525–1560)

Una Panthera ……………………………….…….….……... (c. 1370–1412) O Padua, sidus preclarum

S'elle m'amera/Petite Camusette …………………….….. (c.1425 - 1497) Mon coeur se recommande a vous …………… ….………….. Orlando de Lassus (1532–1594) In Crystal Towers …………….……………….………………….... (1540–1623)

Obsecro Domine …………….……………………………………… Jacob Handl (1550–1591)

Hor Che la Vaga Aurora ……………………………………… Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575–1620)

O Rosetta ……………..……………………………………... (1567–1643)

Simply Renaissance Simply Renaissance is a recorder quartet dedicated to exploring the complex rhythms and harmonies of . The instruments we play are made by Thomas Prescott and are copies of surviving instruments in the collection of the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. Our program today shows the development of Renaissance music from the 14th through 17th centuries and showcases some of the greatest of the time.

The Artists Elizabeth Young hangs around the house supposedly making order out of chaos. When domestication palls, she plays with the Roseville Community Concert Band (trombone) and takes regular lessons in (Renaissance trombone) with David Hogan Smith. She also sings in a group.

Glenn McGregor is gainfully employed as a technical engineering manager. Glenn McGregor studies sackbut with David Hogan Smith and also sings in a madrigal group.

Kathryn Canan also plays baroque and recorder with Baroque and Beyond, and Renaissance music with the New Queen’s Ha’Penny Consort. Her CD of thirteenth century English music with Briddes Roune is available at www.magnatune.com . She also plays modern flute and piccolo for Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento and Runaway Stage Productions. She teaches recorder, early , and Latin in her home studio.

Mark Schiffer performs on recorders and other early instruments with the New Queen’s Ha’Penny Consort, Baroque and Beyond, and the contemporary group Uncorked. In a previous life he was a high school biology teacher, and he finds the fields of molecular biology and to be both complementary and metaphorically similar to each other.

For more information about the early music world of Sacramento and northern California, please see the websites of the Sacramento Recorder Society (www.sacrecorders.org ) and the San Francisco Early Music Society ( www.sfems.org ). The Sacramento Recorder Society is an adult education organization that welcomes players of all levels.

Program Notes

In our program today, we have interspersed earlier sets from the fourteenth century with later music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in order to show the differences in style and harmony. Harmony in the earlier music tends to be fourths, fifths, and octaves, and pieces seldom have more than three parts. Later music includes major and minor thirds and moves toward the major/minor tonality of later Western music. The lines of Renaissance are independent melodies intertwining with each other, rather than the melody and accompaniment of baroque music which is shown in the last piece by Claudio Monteverdi . In short, if a piece sounds odd, check the date.

Writing in the style known as , Guillaume Machaut is largely responsible for the establishment of the polyphonic genres known as the , and . The love song Gais et Jolis is a ballade, a French verse form of three stanzas with the rhyme scheme ababbcbC. Most of the surviving pieces of Francesco Landini , an Italian organist, are two and three-part secular ballate. Johannes Ciconia was a Franco-Flemish born in Liège, but he worked in Italy, chiefly for Pope Boniface IX in Rome and at the cathedral in Padua. Una panthera concerns the mythical founding of the city of Lucca by an armored panther and the war god Mars.

Several Franco-Flemish composers dominated the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; born in the Low Countries, they traveled throughout Europe disseminating their style. served in the courts of René, Duke of Anjou, and Louis XI, where he may have met Johannes Ockeghem . He spent many years in Italy with the Sforza family in Milan, and Pope Innocent III; he returned to northern France as provost of the church in Condé-sur-l’Escaut. Vive le Roy was probably written for Louis XII of France; he shares Mille Regretz about abandoning a lover, and the frottula El Grillo urges listeners to give the Cricket a drink so that he can keep singing. Heinrich Isaac , like Josquin, spent much of his professional life in Italy, at the court of the Medici in , and he also served the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The German/Swiss composer Ludwig Senfl succeeded Isaac in that position and was probably one of his students. Jacob Obrecht , after a series of jobs in the Netherlands, took a position with the Duke of Ferrara which Josquin had left after a year, thus it was he and not Josquin who was claimed by the plague. Orlando de Lassus , born in Belgium, worked in Mantua, Milan, Naples, and Rome before returning to the court of Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria in Munich. Lassus wrote over 2,000 works in all Latin, French, Italian and German vocal genres known in his time.

Moving into the seventeenth century, Don Carlo Gesualdo was best known for his searingly intense five-part and sacred music written for the less cheerful days of Holy Week—Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. His wild chromaticism may portray the pain and guilt that tortured him for the rest of his life after he murdered his first wife and her lover. We have followed one of his dances with a more conventional galliard by Claude Gervaise for comparison. William Byrd was a chorister in the Chapel Royal and a student of and later colleague of . He was named organist and master of choristers of Lincoln Cathedral at the age of 20, where he wrote most of his works in English and music for Anglican services, although he remained Catholic himself. He was appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal for Elizabeth I. The Cistercian monk Jacob Handl (equally well known as Gallus ) was born in Slovenia as Jakob Petelin ("rooster", which translates to Handl in German and Gallus in Latin). Vittoria Aleotti was a musical prodigy born in Ferrara, sent at the age of 6 or 7 to the convent San Vito for further training as a musician. At 14 she became a nun and most likely took the name Raffaela; afterward she published only sacred music. She played organ, , trombone, and other instruments, and she led the choir at the convent.