(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Sacred and Political Duality: An Analysis of Selected Motets from William Byrd’s Gradualia,” by Sean Burton) Composers rarely produce the crowning masterpieces of their oeuvre in isolation. No exception to this principle, William Byrd was heavily influenced by the historically significant political and religious events of […]
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