Schola Antiqua of New York

Schola Antiqua was an early music group based in New York led by R. John Blackley and Barbara Katherine Jones.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Discography

Music for Holy Week / Gregorian Chant by Schola Antiqua (1990-10-25)

References

^ The Hymnal 1982 Companion: Service music and biographies Raymond F. Glover - 1994 "John Blackley (b. 1936) and presently based in Baltimore ... In 1995 Schola Antiqua will publish an illustrated essay. Rhythm in Western Sacred Music before the Mid-Twelfth Century, to be followed by the publication of transcriptions from MS Laon 239 of Mass Propers for the Sundays and major feasts of the liturgical year. Mr. Blackley and Ms. Barbara Katherine Jones from Schola Antiqua served "
^ The Listener 1988 Volume 120 - Page 46 "But the huge area that now comes under the blanket description of 'early music' (ie 16th-century and earlier) is less well represented: Schola Antiqua of New York present a 12th-century liturgical drama, The Visit to the Sepulchre"
^ Music and Musicians Evan Senior - 1976- Volume 25 - Page 31 "Early music very much a la mode and as fashionable as tomorrow is served up in a fascinating, maddening, right-spirited but wrong-headed record by the Schola Antiqua of New York. This group makes me think of others all over Europe at present, Psallettes and Manecanteries, many of them connected with universities and colleges. It is what you might call the educated lay-people's answer to the new ecclesiastical cult ..."
^ Opus 1985 - - Volume 2 - Page 32 "... it is interesting to compare these lilting, subtly rhythmic renditions with other attempts at reconstructing medieval performance styles on records, notably by the Schola Antiqua of New York (Nonesuch). Those, by comparison, were crass and amateurish affairs, hardly more than attempts, based on a little historical learning, to make the music sound as weird as possible, on the assumption that that would pass for authenticity.."

[1] The Hymnal 1982 Companion: Service music and biographies Raymond F. Glover - 1994 "John Blackley (b. 1936) and presently based in Baltimore ... In 1995 Schola Antiqua will publish an illustrated essay. Rhythm in Western Sacred Music before the Mid-Twelfth Century, to be followed by the publication of transcriptions from MS Laon 239 of Mass Propers for the Sundays and major feasts of the liturgical year. Mr. Blackley and Ms. Barbara Katherine Jones from Schola Antiqua served "

[2] The Listener 1988 Volume 120 - Page 46 "But the huge area that now comes under the blanket description of 'early music' (ie 16th-century and earlier) is less well represented: Schola Antiqua of New York present a 12th-century liturgical drama, The Visit to the Sepulchre"

[3] Music and Musicians Evan Senior - 1976- Volume 25 - Page 31 "Early music very much a la mode and as fashionable as tomorrow is served up in a fascinating, maddening, right-spirited but wrong-headed record by the Schola Antiqua of New York. This group makes me think of others all over Europe at present, Psallettes and Manecanteries, many of them connected with universities and colleges. It is what you might call the educated lay-people's answer to the new ecclesiastical cult ..."

[4] Opus 1985 - - Volume 2 - Page 32 "... it is interesting to compare these lilting, subtly rhythmic renditions with other attempts at reconstructing medieval performance styles on records, notably by the Schola Antiqua of New York (Nonesuch). Those, by comparison, were crass and amateurish affairs, hardly more than attempts, based on a little historical learning, to make the music sound as weird as possible, on the assumption that that would pass for authenticity.."

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