Jean Mouton: EMS 6 October

[doversoul1]

Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the life and works of the remarkable early 16th-Century French composer Jean Mouton, compared only to the great master of the Renaissance polyphony, Josquin des Prez. Mouton excelled in writing especially elegant and deep religious motets, as well as other religious pieces for the French court, where he spent most of his career.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00093yq

No EML this week.

[doversoul1]

One marvellous hour of early music. 7 days left to listen. Not a piece of information has been added to the website which is most annoying.

[ardcarp]

Thanks dovers. Heard it last night. In a few places Mouton wrought a very Tallis-like false relation. Scrummy. But on the whole his style seemed [what we now see as] forward-looking.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks dovers. Heard it last night. In a few places Mouton wrought a very Tallis-like false relation. Scrummy. But on the whole his style seemed [what we now see as] forward-looking.

Then sheep can safely graze...

[ardcarp]