14 September 2015 A.D. Ann Boleyn’s Song Book
14 September 2015 A.D. Ann Boleyn’s Song Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBlUlId85ss
Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBlUlId85ss
Ridgway, Claire. “Ann Boleyn’s Song Book.” The Anne Boleyn Files. 15 Sept 2015. http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/anne-boleyns-songbook/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAnneBoleynFiles+%28The+Anne+Boleyn+Files%29.
Accessed 15 Sept 2015.
Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
Posted By Claire on September 15, 2015
You may already have seen this on the news, so apologies for sharing it again, but for those who haven’t heard,
some compositions from a book known as “Anne Boleyn’s Songbook” have been
performed and recorded by the Alamire Choir.
The book, which is manuscript 1070 in the collection of the Royal
College of Music, is described by the RCM as “an early 16th-century choir book
containing 39 Latin motets and 3 French chansons by Franco-Flemish composers.
Evidence suggests that it was prepared for Anne Boleyn.”
However, opinion is divided over whether it was prepared for Anne,
whether it was actually prepared initially for Marguerite d’Angoulême and
passed on to Anne, or whether Anne did in fact compose some of the music
herself. Whatever the truth of the matter, the book is definitely linked to
Anne Boleyn because her name can be found in the book and one composition
depicts a falcon, used by Anne as her badge, pecking at a pomegranate, the
badge of Catherine of Aragon.
You can see a video of a news report, which includes the Alamire
Choir performing the music, at www.itv.com/news/2015-09-14/music-from-anne-boleyns-songbook-performed-for-first-time-in-500-years/
Here’s a promotional video of Anne Boleyn’s Songbook from the
Alamire Choir:
Read more: http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/anne-boleyns-songbook/#ixzz3lobS1Bxk
Read more: http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/anne-boleyns-songbook/#ixzz3lobS1Bxk
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