TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Vive le roy (des Prez)

• Excerpt from “In Epiphania Domini” (Palestrina)

• Excerpt from “In Communi Plurimorum Martyrum” (Palestrina)

• Excerpt from “In Festo Sanctarum Mulicrum” (Palestrina)

• Il vostro dipartir (Casulana)

• Baciai per aver vita (Aleotti)

• Agnus Dei (Redford)

• Glorificamus (Redford)

• O quam glorifica (Redford)

• Variations on “Why fumeth in sight” (Tallis/arr. Trentadue)

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ABOUT THIS ARRANGEMENT

I was very pleased to have been asked by TUX People’s Music to continue a series that the company had started back in 2021. The company’s Chief Editor, Cody Myre, had initially created a book of arrangements for various quartets consisting of historically forgotten or neglected pieces from the Romantic period. When this opportunity came along for me to continue the series, I was particularly interested in exploring a different period of music while adhering to these goals in some shape or form.

This collection of music from the Renaissance period has been carefully adapted and arranged for these same various quartets, featuring both well-known and perhaps not-so-well-known composers and works. I sought to provide as much as possible some sense of a comprehensive overview of this period, in which more personal expression from composers was welcomed and musical techniques were largely shared between sacred and secular music (both genres of which are represented in this book). There’s an ethereal spirit within the harmonic structure of these hymns and chorales (as well as within Josquin des Prez’s fanfare “Vive re loy”) that I find deeply resonating overall. I believe this spirit is best represented in Thomas Tallis’s well-known setting of Psalm 2 titled “Why fumeth in sight”, a Phrygian mode piece he wrote for the Archbishop of Cantebury, Matthew Parker, in 1567 as part of a larger collection of psalms. This specific composition by Tallis would go on to inspire Ralph Vaughan Williams’s own fantasia for string orchestra as well as Fisher Tull’s sketches for concert band - the arrangement presented in this book, however, is fully my own interpretation of Tallis’s original setting.

My sincerest thanks goes to Cody for his consultations during the process of compiling this book and to TUX People’s Music for their continuing support.