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Tenebrae Responsories 1585

Available now for preview and purchase through Amazon and iTunes The eighteen Tenebrae Responsories of Victoria from 1585 are among his most inspired settings of sacred texts. Sung by the influential Scholar Polyphonica Choir of New Zealand under the direction of Maxwell Fernie at St. Mary of the Angels, Wellington, the original recording was released on LP in 1982 to Read more

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The history of music printing

Some ideas and innovations by Maxwell Fernie, from an article by Ros Johnston. Polyphonic music of the sixteenth century has not been served well by the nineteenth century tendency to standardise the layout of the musical page, leading for instance to the universal use of modern bar-lines and notation in editions of the music of such composers Read more