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Orlando Gibbons | Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle

February 4, 2021

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In this Musical Moment, VocalEssence artistic director and founder Philip Brunelle shares insider information and beautiful music by the composer Orlando Gibbons.

Orlando Gibbons

1583-1625

The English composer and keyboard player, Orlando Gibbons, was a leading composer of vocal, keyboard and ensemble music in early 17th-century England. Gibbons was the most illustrious of a large family of musicians singing in the King’s College Choir and later entering the University of Cambridge. In 1603. he became a member of the Chapel Royal and later the Chapel organist. He earned an honorary doctor of music from the University of Oxford and became the organist at Westminster Abbey where he later officiated at King James I’s funeral. Gibbons’s full anthems are among his most distinguished works, as are the “little” anthems of four parts. His Madrigals and Motetts of 5 Parts contains deeply felt and very personal settings of texts that are, for the most part, of a moral or philosophical nature. The collection shows Gibbons’s mastery of the polyphonic style of his day and contains many masterpieces of late madrigalist style, among them the well-known “The Silver Swan” and “What Is Our Life?.” 

Suggested choral pieces: 

  1. This is the Record of John (Novello 1330) 
  2. Hosanna to the Son of David (OUP) 
  3. O Clap Your Hands (OUP TCM40)
Posted in: Musical Moments
Tags: British Composers • Composers of the 17th 18th and 19th Centuries

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