Рет қаралды 9,486
If ye love me
Music by Thomas Tallis
Performed by the Youth Choir and Choral Scholars of St Wulfram’s Church Choir, Grantham, with The Gesualdo Six
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If ye love me, keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another comforter,
that he may ‘bide with you forever;
E’en the sp’rit of truth.
John 14:15-17
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Intelligibility of text is all in If ye love me-a work whose simplicity couldn’t be further from the rich and involved counterpoint of Loquebantur, and one whose guiding principle seems to be Archbishop Cranmer’s edict that sacred music should use only one note per syllable. Tallis opens the work with a clear declamation of the text, emphasizing the word ‘commandments’ and leaving his listener in no doubt of the importance placed on learning and teaching in the new language of the Church. Despite continuing in a four-part polyphonic texture, none of the clarity of text is lost, with beautiful descending phrases passed around the voices. - from notes © Owain Park 2018.
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