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Simon asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicClassical · 8 years ago

Reccomendations for old roughly 16th century choral pieces?

I am looking to find some new music, and am particularly interested in the older 16th/17th century choral stuff written for choirs.

I particularly like the sadder pieces opposed to the upbeat ones, which I know is very subjective, but hopefully it may aid the recommendations a bit better.

Thanks so much!!

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  • Tamar
    Lv 4
    8 years ago
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    William Byrd, Four and Three part masses. Kyrie from the 3-part mass is so ... tranquil. Also, Ave Verum Corpus. Wow.

    Thomas Tallis - pretty much anything. Spem In Alium is amazing, go and listen to it - but it's very hard to put on, since it has 40 vocal parts!

    Palestrina is supposed to be very good, though I don't know his work.

  • Dave U
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Here's a lovely little piece by Quirino Gasparini called "Adoramus Te Christe"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkl4yNVwYcY

    They used to think Mozart wrote it, but then discovered that he didn't... The sheet music is freely available too

    http://www.goitre.it/risorse.asp

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