05/30/2023
We're still beaming after Friday's live-recorded lecture-concert!
Presented by Affeccyon (director, Daniel Koplitz) and Renaissances at Stanford, the event featured previously unrecorded works by both lesser-known and anonymous composers of the 'Gyffard' Partbooks (1570s, England) and drew together early-modernist scholars from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, who offered insight to the music, its themes, and its contexts throughout the concert.
Thanks to the generous support of the Friends of Music at Stanford, the Stanford Music Department, the Stanford University Office for Religious & Spiritual Life, the Dean's Office at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford DLCL, and the Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Affeccyon was able to produce the first recording of these little-known compositions, offering scholars, performers, and the general public deeper insight to the soundworld of late‑medieval England. Once everything is processed, our recording will be archived in the Stanford Digital Repository and freely accessible there for generations to come.
Here's a short clip captured by an audience member of one of the partbooks' anonymous settings of 'Asparges me'—surely one of the finest works in the collection. Can you believe it had never been recorded before??
