Films for the Humanities and Sciences

The Golden Age

This program covers the wealth of music during the age of Elizabeth I in England and its spread from the Church and the courts to the middle classes; the emergence of opera in Italy and France; the celebration of St. Cecilia; Elizabethan madrigals. Music of Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi, and Lully is performed by Anthony Rooley and the Consort of Musicke, the Taverners Choir, London, and the Zurich Opera. Contents include excerpts from: Morley’s Fire, Fire, My Heart; Marenzio’s Dolorous Mournful Cares; Weelkes’ As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending; Holburn’s The Honeysuckle; Dowland’s Mistress Winter’s Jump, I Saw My Lady Weep, Sleep Wayward Thoughts, Fine Knacks for Ladies; Byrd’s Gaudeamus Omnes; John Bull’s Galliard; Gibbons’ What Is Our Life, The Silver Swan; Caccini’s Amarille Mea Bella; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo; Marini’s Sonata for Two Violins; Adson’s Courtly Masquing Airs; Lully’s Alceste; Purcell’s Ode to St. Cecilia. (60 minutes)

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Item#: BVL718
Copyright date: ©1982
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5843-3

Part of the Series : Music in Time


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