The writer of the booklet notes for this CD contends that Peter Philips is less well known than other English composers of the late Renaissance because he lived and worked mostly in what is now Belgium -- he has been slighted because of the Anglocentric nature of English musical scholarship, the reasoning goes, while he is not exactly a Continental composer, either. It could also be that he just doesn't quite fit into any of the grand narratives under which people file the musicians of the Elizabethan period (no backdrop of ...
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The writer of the booklet notes for this CD contends that Peter Philips is less well known than other English composers of the late Renaissance because he lived and worked mostly in what is now Belgium -- he has been slighted because of the Anglocentric nature of English musical scholarship, the reasoning goes, while he is not exactly a Continental composer, either. It could also be that he just doesn't quite fit into any of the grand narratives under which people file the musicians of the Elizabethan period (no backdrop of religious conflict), and there's a bit of everything in his music. They appeared in the 1610s and 1620s, but Philips, like the Elizabethan madrigalists, essentially looks back to the Renaissance counterpoint of the sixteenth century. Still, the 14 motets included on this album are rich pieces that show the influence of the contrast principle foundational to the language of the early Baroque. Dividing the choir between five and eight parts, Philips sometimes uses actual...
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