Anonymous (2009)
performed by
Accentus, Bernhard Böhm (recorder), Capilla Flamenca, Ciaramella, Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense, Ensemble Oni Wytars, Ensemble Unicorn, Estampie, Manuela Schenale (vocals), Rose Consort of Viols, Tonus Peregrinus, Aurora Surgit (choir, chorus)
composed by
Alfonso X (el Sabio), Ambrosian Chant, Anonymous, Anonymous, Carmina Burana, Anonymous, Codex Faenza, Anonymous, Dutch, Anonymous, English Polyphony, Anonymous, French, Anonymous, German, Anonymous, Italian, Anonymous, Troubadour, Croatian Traditional
What a novel idea! Under the aegis of Naxos producer Colin J. Rae and annotator Dean Brierly, here is a two-disc compilation dedicated to the works of the most prolific composer of all time: Anonymous. There are lots of reasons why musical works come down through history without attribution; in the earliest days of notation, sacred compositions themselves were viewed as being the result of a collective for a collective purpose, and it was rare for a composer -- or even a scribe -- to affix his or her name to such a ...
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What a novel idea! Under the aegis of Naxos producer Colin J. Rae and annotator Dean Brierly, here is a two-disc compilation dedicated to the works of the most prolific composer of all time: Anonymous. There are lots of reasons why musical works come down through history without attribution; in the earliest days of notation, sacred compositions themselves were viewed as being the result of a collective for a collective purpose, and it was rare for a composer -- or even a scribe -- to affix his or her name to such a production. As musical works became associated more definitively with the hands that crafted them, the names gradually began to appear, though it was a long process and Anonymous works are still relatively common into the seventeenth century; it took a long time for the cult of the composer in Western music to become truly established. Music publishing had an important effect on this development because it was discovered that a work attached to a composer's name -- particularly that of a...
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- Avrix mi galanica (Let Me In, My Love)
- Ich tät mir auserwählen (I chose for myself)
- Se grasse / Cum venerint / Ite missa est, motet
- Cueurs desolez, song for 5 parts
- Bog se rodi va Betleme
- Biance flour
- Plus oultre, for 2 lutes
- Work(s): Cantiga de Santa Maria No. 77 & 119
- Den III. ende - VI. Ronde - Quatre Branles, for ensemble ("Inden Cromhorn")
- Eya martir Stephane, carol for 2 voices
- Sancta Maria wohn uns bei, hymn
- Pascha Nostrum, alleluia in mode 7 (Mass for Easter Sunday) (GR 197)
- Der Gestreifft Danntz - der Gassenhauer darauff, for lute
- Untitled work, for ensemble (from D-Mbs Mus. Ms. 3154)
- Clauso chronos, CB 73
- Esta montaña d'enfrente (This Mountain in Front)
- Greensleeves, folk song
- Agnus Dei
- Venite, benedicti patris mei, introit
- Sa'dâwî
- Mein Herz in hohen Freuden ist, hymn
- Den I, II. ende - III. Gaillarde, for ensemble ("Inden Cromhorn")
- Si quis sermonem, psallenda
- Apud Dominum (antiphona) - Psalmus 129
- Bujo (instrumental)
- Robin Hood & Maid Marian
- Tourdion
- Düdül
- Untitled (Codex Faenza)
- Jalla man, hymn
- Bacche, bene venies, CB 200
- Alma redemptoris mater, antiphon
- Alma chorus / O du arme Judas, motet
- Den hoboecken dans
- Nevestinko oro
- In nomine
- Requiem aeternam (introitus) - Kyrie
- Kyrie Eleison
- Quant voi la florette, Motet
- Keh Moshe, chant
- Aurora lucis rutilat, hymn in mode 8
- Domna, pos vos ay chausida
- Den III., I. ende - VI. Ronde, for ensemble ("Inden Cromhorn")
- Jay grant espoir
- Greensleeves (Balcarres Lute Book)
- Basse Danse "La Magdalena"
- O Deathe, Rock Me A-Sleepe
- Partos trocados (Babes Exchanged)
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