Josquin: Missa Di Dadi

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Josquin: Missa Di DadiOpis:Product DescriptionThere are various theories as to why pictures of dice are included in the score of Josquin's Missa Di dadi. At first sight the dice are nothing more than indicators to the tenors as to how to distribute the notes of the chanson, on which the Mass is based, into their part. For example the Kyrie is preceded by a pair of dice showing two and one, which tells the singers that the note-lengths of the chanson need to be doubled in order to fit with the other three voice parts. In the Gloria the dice read four and one, requiring the notes of the chanson to be quadrupled in length.

Josquin is likely to have written the Mass in Milan in the late 15th Century which is known to have been a hot-house for gambling. Perhaps the dice are there simply to amuse a wealthy patron or confuse the singers. Other explanations have turned to the text of the chanson: "Shall I never have better than I have?" Is it a gambler's gripe? Or a lover's complaint? Or is it the languishing soul's plea for redemption?

Perhaps Josquin simply threw dice to establish his compositional scheme. Whatever the answer, the reason for the dice seems to be important. When Petrucci published the Missa Di dadi in 1514 he included the dice even though the tenor part is resolved and printed in full.

This is the sixth of nine albums in The Tallis Scholars' project to record all Josquin's masses"Can Great Music be inspired by the throw of dice? The possibility clearly excited Josquin, who prefaced the tenor part in several of the movements of his Missa Di dadi with a pair of dice" Peter PhillipsReviewWith their new Josquin disc for Gimell, Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars show that they remain at the top of their game.

The Classical Reviewer,Oct'16 /// This is glorious music. Performance **** Recording ***** BBC Music Magazine,Dec'16 /// Both works are magnificent achievements, beautifully sung. Gramophone,Nov'16 /// Why bother to review a new recording from the Tallis Scholars? You know just what you'll find-damn near perfection in tuning, balance, phrasing, blend, pacing, dynamic range-and anything else you care to mention.***** --Early Music Today,Dec'16A throw of the dice will never abolish chance, wrote the French poet Mallarmé, showing the way for Boulez and Cage. Jumping back to the 1480s, Josquin played his own game of dice in his early Missa Di dadi (Dice Mass). The tenor part is marked, at the start of each movement, with a pair of dice that add up to different amounts. You need Peter Phillips's excellent liner note to comprehend the mechanics, not easily audible but intriguing to know about, from a time when dice were associated with the devil. It is paired with another early mass, Une mousse de Biscaye. As ever this revered group, in the latest in their all-Josquin series, spins and weaves the long vocal lines faultlessly.**** --Observer, 23/10/16The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips are brilliant on the latest in the series of recordings. FT 28/10/16 /// Listeners hoping that Josquin might have deployed aleatoric, Cageian techniques in his Missa Di Dadi might feel short-changed here, though the musical virtues of this disc are never in question. The emoji-like dice graphics which Josquin placed at the head of the tenor part in several movements mostly function like musical performance directions, their score combinations giving the singers information about note and phrase lengths. Peter Phillips's scholarly, entertaining sleeve essay makes a valiant attempt to explain the process, pointing out Josquin's cheekiness at including gambling references in a sacred work. The Tallis Scholars sing flawlessly on this latest volume in an ongoing Josquin series. Impeccable intonation allows us to appreciate the composer s harmonic boldness. Notably the moments where one voice remains fixed on a particular note whilst the other lines take us in unexpected directions. The Missa Une mousse de Biscaye is another earlier work, partly based oAutor:Tallis Scholars/PhillipsNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: English: Original Language; EnglishData wydania: 2016-10-27Waga: 0.21 gramWysokość: 0.3 cmSzerokość: 4.9 cmDługość: 5.6 cmNew Store StockUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.