Hoquetus: Medieval European Vocal Music
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Conductor: Paul HillierPerformer: Theatre Of Voices
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-05-11
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Hoquetus: In seculum 'Longum'
- Hoquetus: In seculum 'Viellatoris'
- Hoquetus: In Secelum 'Breve'
- Hoquetus: In seculum 'D'Amiens longum'
- Hoquetus: Iam nubes dissolvitur-Solem
- Hoquetus: Entre Adan et Hanikel-Chies bien seans
- Hoquetus: Je n'amerai I
- Hoquetus: Je n'amerai II
- Hoquetus: Ave maris stella (Organ Solo)
- Hoquetus: Tous corps qui-De souspirant cuer
- Hoquetus: Musicalis sciencia-Sciencie laudabili
- Hoquetus: Or sus, vous dormes trop (Organ Solo)
- Hoquetus: Ave rex gentis Anglorum
- Hoquetus: Deus tourum militum-De flore martyrum
- Hoquetus: Ave miles celestis-Ave rex patrone
- Hoquetus: Beata viscera
- Hoquetus: Thomas gemma Cantuarie-Thomas cesus in Doveria
- Hoquetus: Doleo super te-Absolon, fili mi
- Hoquetus: Epiphaniam domino canamus-Balaam inquit
- Hoquetus: Campanis cum cymbalis-Honoremus dominam
- Hoquetus: sangilio (Organ Solo)
- Hoquetus: Vanecie mundi splendor-Michael qui Stena domus
- Hoquetus: Amor mi fa cantar
- Hoquetus: O zentil madona mia
- Hoquetus: Per larghi prati
- Hoquetus: 'Mediolano' Sanctus
- Hoquetus: Cum martelli-La manta
- Hoquetus: Benedicamus domino (Organ Solo)
- Hoquetus: Ut te per omnes celitus-Ingens alumnus Padue
Music reviews of Hoquetus: Medieval European Vocal Music
Music Review: Hocketing, anyone?
Rating: 4 Stars
Although this well documented and superbly performed CD is intended as an academic demonstration of the ars antiqua practice of hocketing, it also makes for a nice late evening relaxation piece. The vocal acrobatics are nicely alternated with some atmospheric organ pieces from the same era.
Description of Hoquetus: Medieval European Vocal Music
Ostensibly a study in the art of mostly vocal compositions based on the practice of hocketing, this excursion by Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices goes well beyond a study of technique. It's a breathtaking glide through ancient music, to be sure, but it's also a fascinating look at how relatively late medievalists such as Guillaume de Machaut advanced musical processes documented in the Bamberg, Montpellier, Faenza, and Ivrea codices as well as in a variety of other collections. Hocketing is the process whereby multiple voices carry multiple parts simultaneously, with one voice extending beneath another, often providing a melodic backbone for improvisation. On Hillier's sonically peerless collection, you get almost ostentatious slipperiness on the low-register vocal in a 14th-century homage to St. Thomas (à Becket), and then you get a 13th-century piece from the Montpellier Codex in which a dizzying pair of upper-register voices sings in hockets while a lower-register chant continues beneath, almost viscerally piling polyphony. Hillier has excelled at what could have been an academic mission, and he's contributed a great deal to making the history of musical development poignantly beautiful. In addition, four organ solos fall into the sequencing of vocal tracks, allowing points of rest for the ear following the multitude of voices and thrilling keyboard examples, to boot. --Andrew BartlettClassical CDs
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