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LESSON WITH A MENTOR
LESSON WITH A MENTOR
MASTERS PASS METHOD NOTE BY NOTE.
ELIZABETH RECEIVES A VIOL LESSON FROM
ROSAMUND MORLEY, EARLY MUSIC EXPERT.
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MASTERS PASS METHOD NOTE BY NOTE.
ELIZABETH RECEIVES A VIOL LESSON FROM
ROSAMUND MORLEY, EARLY MUSIC EXPERT.
Listen to the lesson now >>
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In today's podcast, Elizabeth Weinfield takes a viola da gamba lesson with her mentor, Rosamund "Ros" Morley. Ros teaches at Columbia and Yale Universities, and directs the summer music course, Viols West, at Cal Poly. Elizabeth and Ros rehearse works by English Renaissance era composer Thomas Morley (c. 1557-1602). It is currently speculated, if unconfirmed, that Ros Morley is herself a descendant of Thomas Morley. Trained by polyphonic master William Byrd, Morley was an organist at St. Paul's Cathedral who caused the vogue for the Italian-imported madrigal form in Elizabethan England. Morley's madrigals were light, secular a capella compositions for two to six voices. The rise of the sonnet form in 16th c. England propelled madrigals greatly; Morley's interpretation late in life of a section of contemporary William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) comedy As You Like It (1599) leads some scholars to believe that Morley's compositions accompanied live theatrical performance. Morley's compositions for viol focused in the "broken consort" model, where two viols (as heard here) would be joined by flute, lute, cittern and bandora. |
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