Notre Dame concerts with the Saint Ephraim Male Choir, 3. - Notre Dame School of Polyphony and Ars Nova: once and now
19:30
Concert Hall
János Mezei – organ
Attila Szilágyi – gamba
Márk Bubnó - percussion
Quattroforte Trombone Ensemble, artistic leader - Gusztáv Hőna
Series editor and artistic director - Tamás Bubnó
The four-concert-series of the Saint Ephraim Male Choir draws not only from the music of Notre Dame Cathedral and the period called in music history as the Notre Dame School of Polyphony , but puts this trend, having its compositional effects up to contemporary music, into a context of cultural history. The first phenomenon of this was the “musical revolution” of the 12th century with its special way of seeing things and its musical brilliance, doubtlessly influencing the development of European musical history.
The gothic period of the 12th century gave birth to wonderful edifices of formerly unimaginable grace. They provided new acoustic spaces as well, where the former Gregorian chant, the standard musical language of Europe so far, seemed too plain, too “vaulty”. The new forms of architecture appeared in music as well: buttresses, traceries, rosettes and ogives. The activity of two legendary masters of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Leoninus and Perotinus, broke the monocracy of monophony and started the great polyphonic era of European music history, creating a new musical universe and starting one of most marvellous stories of mankind. In the beginning of the concert we will take a walk around the cradle: besides works of the two above mentioned masters, music hiding on sheets of distinguished codices of the age, St. Martial Codex, Montpellier Codex, Codex Buranus, The Later Cambridge Songbook, etc., will come to life again. Besides one of the first mass-cycles in music history, Messe du Notre Dame of Guillaume Machaut, the best-known composer of Ars Nova, a harvest of present Ars Nova, i.e. works of contemporary Hungarian composers will be performed as well, often showing close relation to music from the cradle of polyphony.
Tickets are available for 2000 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU! ℗ BMC
The gothic period of the 12th century gave birth to wonderful edifices of formerly unimaginable grace. They provided new acoustic spaces as well, where the former Gregorian chant, the standard musical language of Europe so far, seemed too plain, too “vaulty”. The new forms of architecture appeared in music as well: buttresses, traceries, rosettes and ogives. The activity of two legendary masters of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Leoninus and Perotinus, broke the monocracy of monophony and started the great polyphonic era of European music history, creating a new musical universe and starting one of most marvellous stories of mankind. In the beginning of the concert we will take a walk around the cradle: besides works of the two above mentioned masters, music hiding on sheets of distinguished codices of the age, St. Martial Codex, Montpellier Codex, Codex Buranus, The Later Cambridge Songbook, etc., will come to life again. Besides one of the first mass-cycles in music history, Messe du Notre Dame of Guillaume Machaut, the best-known composer of Ars Nova, a harvest of present Ars Nova, i.e. works of contemporary Hungarian composers will be performed as well, often showing close relation to music from the cradle of polyphony.
Tickets are available for 2000 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU! ℗ BMC