From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10491 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, January 10 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10491 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Sitting experience from zero to maximum enjoyment ["Sitting Posture" Subject: Sitting experience from zero to maximum enjoyment Sitting experience from zero to maximum enjoyment http://sams-club.rest/VkYoyPPww5cy3wCpIiXsTRfzwFa5TEbULL0D4HcB5567O6tPCQ http://sams-club.rest/V3iPbtAf6JclATYiEqWa2MhVLARhZ_TObVq0dFLV4uJLEE1nQQ arsley's compositional career spanned the reigns of all four monarchs. He wrote church music for both the Latin and English rites. His Anglican church music for the Daily Office included a morning service, involving the Benedictus canticle and the Te Deum, and an evening service that involved the singing of two canticles, the Magnificat and the Nunc dimittis. The musicologist Howard Brown noted that Parsley belonged to a group of outstanding composers from the middle period of the 16th centurybWilliam Mundy, Robert Parsons, John Sheppard, Christopher Tye, Thomas Tallis, and Robert Whitebwho together produced a body of high quality music. According to the scholar John Morehen, Parsley was less at ease when working with English texts, a trait Morehen finds Parsley had in common with similar Reformation composers. His Latin music is fluent and attractive, with extended phrases that become increasingly melismatic as they progress. The parts in Latin are characteristically independent in a way that was typical of sacred polyphony in England before the Reformation. The expressive psalm Conserva me, domine has an elegant polyphonic style. The technique shown in his English church music is less assured than his compositions for the Latin rite. His five-part Lamentations, which differs from settings by his contemporaries Tallis and White in that a treble line (notable for the difficulty in singing the highest notes ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10491 ***********************************************