Gloria Tibi Trinitas Sometime in the middle of the sixteenth century, John Taverner composed a virtuosic 6-part mass that was based on the antiphon Gloria tibi Trinitas. An example is in the second section of the Sanctus from the Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas. Listen for the words “in nomine,” which uses four of the six voices. One of those voices is a cornetto playing the Gloria tibi Trinitas in equal notes in this performance by the Orchestra of the Renaissance. Nobody knows why, but sometime between 1545 and 1579, pieces called “in nomine” appeared in a book of keyboard and cittern music compiled by one Thomas Mulliner and now owned by the British Library. More than 150 other pieces of the same title followed. It seems that every composer worth his salt in England from the mid-16th to the end of the 17th century composed at least one, and sometimes many “In nomines.” Most “In nomines” are in five parts, and in duple meter, yet, as you might expect, no two sound alike. Here is a typical early “In nomine,” composed by William Byrd, https://youtube/watch?v=cB-40o_0T5M
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:17:13 +0000
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