John Redford's Angulare fundamentum
Throughout September, the Daily Classical Music Post celebrates the music of 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century England. https://youtu.be/tP01Xy3eN54 Poor John Redford (c. 1500 – 1547). By all accounts, he was one of the most important composers and dramatists of the Tudor period. Although many of his keyboard works can be found in the Mulliner Book, pretty much everything else is lost. There is one sweet little anthem, "Rejoice in the Lord alway," that was at one time attributed to him, but it has been determined that Redford couldn't have composed it because the text was unknown until two years after his death. Thomas Morley set Redford's words in his anthem "Nolo mortem peccatoris." Redford’s famous morality play, The Play of Wyt and Science, is in a manuscript in the British Library, but it is incomplete. Much of the music that Redford composed for this play is lost. The synopsis sounds like it would still be pretty much relevant today: Wit, having fallen in...