Our 2024 Choral Pilgrimage celebrates the art of parody in music. Fundamental to the creative spirit of 16th and early 17th century polyphonic music in Europe, this popular technique involves borrowing material from an existing piece and reworking it to create something new. 16th-century composer Orlande de Lassus was the master of this style of writing, reworking his own pieces to parodies on another great master of almost a century earlier, Josquin des Pres. Taking the concept into the modern day, we have invited the extraordinarily inventive composer, Bob Chilcott, to write a sacred work parodying one of Lassus’ finest secular madrigals.
We also shine a spotlight on Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance Maddalena Casulana, the first female composer in the history of western music to have a whole book of her works printed and published. Writing with an intimate and palpable knowledge of the human voice, her works explore themes of love and desire, and were highly regarded by other composers of the time.
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