Fall 2004

Music for the Holidays from Old and New England

The La Jolla Renaissance Singers presents a program of seasonal choral music from Renaissance England and Colonial America, mostly dating from the 15th-18th centuries. The program explores the continuities and differences among the English medieval tradition, the High Renaissance polyphony of the Tudor era, and folk music as represented in English carols and in music from colonial and rural America.

• Once in Royal David’s City, Henry John Gauntlett (19th century English)
• Edi Beo Thu (13th century English)
• Hail the Blest Morn! (American traditional)
• Ye Nations All, On You I Call (American traditional)
• Sherburne, Nahum Tate (18th century American)
• Shepherd’s Carol, William Billings (18th century American)
• A Virgin Unspotted, William Billings (18th century American)
• Adam Lay Ybounden, Boris Ord (19th century English)
• Quam Pulchra Est, John Dunstable (15th century English)
• Candidi Facti Sunt, Thomas Tallis (16th century English)
• The Holly and the Ivy (English traditional)
• Nowell, nowell: the Boares Head (English medieval)
• The Roast Beef of Old England, Richard Leveridge (18th century English)
• The Boar’s Head Carol (English traditional)
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English traditional)

Spring 2005

Love Songs from Renaissance France

The La Jolla Renaissance Singers presents a program of French chansons by Claudin de Sermisy, Roland de Lassus, Guillaume Costeley, Pierre Certon, Claude Lejeune and Clement Janequin, including Janequin’s spectacular evocation of the Parisian marketplace, “Les cris de Paris” (The Street Cries of Paris). These chansons explore all sides of love, from the joyous to the tragic, from the passionate to the raunchy, from the soulful to the silly.

In addition, the group will perform a 1999 work by Jason Rosenberg entitled “Carnival,” which like Janequin’s music uses vocal effects to replicate the sounds of public space.

• Bon jour, mon coeur, by Lassus
• Amours, partes, by Claudin
• Petite nymph folastre, by Janequin
• Si dessus voz levres de roses, by Lejeune
• Lautrier priay de danswer deux fillettes, by Costeley
• J’ai contente ma volonte, by Claudin
• Les cris de Paris, by Janequin
• Carnival, by Rosenberg
• Ie ne l’ose dire, by Certon
• Tant que vivrai, by Claudin
• Celle qui m’a tant pourmene, by Claudin
• Bon jour, mon coeur, by Lassus
• Il s’en va tard, by Janequin
• La nuit froide et sombre, by Lassus
• Quand le berger vit la bergere, by Costeley