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7 Responses to “Deo gratias, Thirty Six Part Canon Composed by Johannes Ockeghem”

1. Jill Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 11:13 am

   Stuart, this is just lovely! Early polyphony is absolutely my ‘thing’, but I have to admit I knew nothing of Johannes Ockeghem. Thank you so much for introducing him to me.

2. Webmaster Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 11:17 am

   Thanks Jill, that’s really encouraging. I’m really glad you liked it

3. Sophie, Surrey Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm

   This is lovely. Thank you. I love the way my heart follows one part as it rises and then is drawn away sideways by the next. (You can tell I don’t know anything about music!)

4. Jill Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 12:48 pm

   Do you know Thomas Tallis’s ‘Spem in Alium’? This is a 40-part motet, which I actually heard sung a few years back under the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, sung ‘in the round’ by The Sixteen, who do such a lot of this kind of music, so beautifully. (There were actually more than sixteen of them, although I don’t think there were as many as 40!) This was the nearest thing to heaven on earth than I have ever encountered. I had to be practically peeled off the floor when it had finished.

   There are lots of You-Tube versions – here is one sung by the Taverner Consort and Choir. Have a listen, if you haven’t come across it already.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c6UYHbNYuA&feature=related

5. Jill Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 1:17 pm

   Sophie,that was very profound! I think you know more about music than you think you do.

6. Sophie, Surrey Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 1:43 pm

   @ Jill: Thanks. Could you tell me the correct way to put what I said?

7. Jill Says:
   April 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm

   I don’t think I could tell you anything at all Sophie – you have put it perfectly. :>) (That was supposed to be a smiley.)