Thomas Ravenscroft (1582 - 1635) Royaume-Uni Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582 or 1592 until 1635) was an English composer, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.
He probably sang in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral from 1594, when a 'Thomas Raniscroft' was listed on the choir rolls; likely he remained there until around 1600, under the directorship of Thomas Giles. He probably received his bachelor's degree in 1605 from Cambridge.
Ravenscroft's principal contributions are his collections of folk music, including catches, rounds, street cries, vendor songs, 'freeman's songs' and other anonymous music, in three collections: Pammelia (1609), Deuteromelia (1609) and Melismata (1611). Some of the music he compiled has acquired quite extraordinary fame, though his name is rarely associated with the music: for example 'Three Blind Mice' first appears in Deuteromelia. He also published a metrical psalter (The Whole Booke of Psalmes) in 1621. As a composer his works are mostly forgotten, but they include 11 anthems, 3 motets for five voices and four fantasias for viols.
In addition to his activities as a composer and editor, he wrote two treatises on music theory: A Briefe Discourse of the True (but Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees ... (London, 1614), and A Treatise of Musick, which remains in manuscript (unpublished).
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Looking Up Chorale SATB SATB, Piano St Rose Music Publishing
Choir, Piano Accompaniment (SATB Choir) SKU: HL.277282 SATB and Piano ...(+)
Choir, Piano
Accompaniment (SATB
Choir)
SKU:
HL.277282
SATB and
Piano Vocal Score .
Composed by Nico Muhly.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Softcover. 60
pages. St. Rose Music
#SRO10015201. Published
by St. Rose Music
(HL.277282).
UPC:
840126915006. 6.75x10.5
inches.
Program
note: Looking Up
is a piece for large
chorus and orchestra, and
is in three sections,
played without pause. In
the 16th century, a
variety of psalters in
meter were printed in
England, with the idea of
making psalm-singing
something that could
happen easily at home,
with the rhyming meter
being an aid to
memorization. These
translations are
wonderful exercises in
brevity and sometimes
clumsy rhymemaking, and
were usually prefaced by
a lengthy explanation as
to their merits; the
title of one of the first
such volumes in English
is: The Psalter of Dauid
newely translated into
Englysh metre in such
sort that it maye the
more decently, and wyth
more delyte of the mynde,
be reade and songe of al
men. I thought it would
be appropriate to set one
of these introductions,
and the first section of
Looking Up sets the
preface to Thomas
Ravenscroft's psalter
(1621), in which he
writes: “The
singing of Psalmes (assay
the Doctors) comforteth
the sorrowfull, pacifieth
the angry, strengtheneth
the weake, humbleth the
proud, gladdeth the
humble, stirres up the
slow, reconcileth
enemies, lifteth up the
heart to heavenly things,
and uniteth the Creature
to his
Creator.” It
begins meditatively, but
eventually grows agitated
and fervent, with a
vision of the
“quire of Angels
and Saints”
“redoubling
anddescanting” - an
ecstatic and terrifying
vision of the skies
opening up. Ravenscroft
then encourages the use
of instrumental musicfor
worship, at which point,
a long, acrobatic
orchestral interlude with
jagged edges antagonizes
the choir, who sing a
kind of private, anxious
meditation on two
pitches. One of
the most delicious
biblical texts is an
Apocryphal prayer known
as the Benedicite or the
Prayer of the Three
Children (the same who
were rescued by an angel
after King Nebuchadnezzar
tried to have them burnt
in an oven for not bowing
to his image). The text
is repetitive, obsessive,
and a gift to composers -
each line is an
invocation of an element
of the natural world,
followed by the phrase,
“blesse ye the
Lord, praise him &
magnify him for
ever.” In Looking
Up, the setting begins
with three solo voices,
and then grows to include
the whole choir,
itemizing the whole of
creation. The idea that
these boys are spared
from the furnace and then
five minutes later are
saying, “O ye the
fire and warming heate,
blesse ye the
Lord...” has always
felt very loaded to me,
and the orchestra plays
with this conflict
between joyful praise and
a more terrible (in the
16th-century sense)
awefor the
divine. The text
for the third, and
shortest, section is
taken from Christopher
Smart's (1722-1771) A
Song to David,
purportedly written
during his confinement in
a mental asylum. This ode
to King David points out
how David, as the author
of some of the Psalms,
observes the whole world
from the
“clustering
spheres” to the
“nosegay in the
vale.&rdquo.
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English Renaissance (Collection - The Colour of Song, Vol. 1) Chorale SATB SATB divisi, A Cappella Hal Leonard
Performed by The King's Singers, The King's Singers. Arranged by The King's Sing...(+)
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Singers, The King's
Singers. Arranged by The
King's Singers. (SATB DV
A Cappella). King's
Singer's Choral. Size
6.7x10.5 inches. 72
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard.
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Ye Olde New England Psalm-Tunes Chorale SATB Theodore Presser Co.
Choral SATB choir SKU: PR.432410040 For S.A.T.B., a cappella . Comp...(+)
Choral SATB choir
SKU:
PR.432410040
For
S.A.T.B., a cappella .
Composed by Aaron
Williams, Abraham Wood,
Andrew Law, Daniel
Belknap, Daniel Read,
Jacob Kimball, Jezaniah
Sumner, John Playford,
Justin Morgan, Misch,
Oliver Holden, Samuel
Holyoke, Thomas
Ravenscroft, Timothy
Swan, W. Tansur, William
Billings, William Knapp,
and etc. Arranged by
Waldo Pratt. Sws.
Performance. With
Standard notation. 64
pages. Theodore Presser
Company #432-41004.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.432410040).
ISBN
9781491109687. UPC:
680160094202. Octavo
inches.
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Remember, o thou man Chorale SATB - Intermédiaire Carus Verlag
Soprano/alto solo, SATB choir - Level 3 SKU: CA.315550 Composed by Thomas...(+)
Soprano/alto solo, SATB
choir - Level 3
SKU:
CA.315550
Composed by
Thomas Ravenscroft.
Arranged by Ludwig Bohme.
Sacred vocal music.
Separate edition with
choral collection. Sacred
vocal music. Full score.
Composed 2013. Duration 3
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
03.155/50. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.315550).
ISBN 9790007176327.
Key: E major. Language:
English.
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Advent For Choirs Chorale [Partition] Oxford University Press
By Archer and Cleobury. For Choral Collection: Mixed Choir. Published by Oxford ...(+)
By Archer and Cleobury.
For Choral Collection:
Mixed Choir. Published by
Oxford University Press.
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By A Bank Lay I Chorale SATB Music Sales
(Mixed Choir) SKU: HL.14065445 Composed by Thomas Ravenscroft. Choral. Ge...(+)
(Mixed Choir)
SKU:
HL.14065445
Composed
by Thomas Ravenscroft.
Choral. General
Merchandise. Duration 240
seconds. Music Sales
#JC61203. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14065445).
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Carols For Choirs Book 1 Chorale SATB [Partition] Oxford University Press
Carols for Choirs 1 (Fifty Christmas Carols). By Jacques and Willcocks. Edited b...(+)
Carols for Choirs 1
(Fifty Christmas Carols).
By Jacques and Willcocks.
Edited by Reginald
Jacques, David Willcocks.
For mixed choir. Mixed
Voices. ...for Choirs
Collections. Christmas,
Choral Collection. Choral
collection. 192 pages.
Published by Oxford
University Press
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