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Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia (Paperback)
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Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia (Paperback)
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William Byrd's Gradualia is one of the most unusual and elaborate
musical works of the English Renaissance. This large collection of
liturgical music, 109 pieces in all, was written for clandestine
use by English Catholics at a time when they were forbidden to
practice their religion in public. When Byrd began to compose the
Gradualia, he turned from the penitential and polemical
extravagances of his earlier Latin motets to the narrow, carefully
ordered world of the Counter-Reformation liturgy. It was in this
new context, cut off from his familiar practice of choosing
colorful texts and setting them at length, that he first wrote
about the "hidden and mysterious power" of sacred words to evoke a
creative response. Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia
responds to Byrd's own testimony by exploring how he read the texts
of the Mass and the events of the church calendar. Kerry McCarthy
examines early modern English Catholic attitudes toward liturgical
practice, meditation, and what the composer himself called
"thinking over divine things." She draws on a wide range of
contemporary sources - devotional treatises, commentaries on the
Mass, poetry, memoirs, letters, and Byrd's dedicatory prefaces -
and revisits the Gradualia in light of this evidence. The book
offers a case study of how one artist reimagined the creative
process in the final decades of his life.
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