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 Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet, Laura Kikauka: Exactly the Same, but Completely Different and the North American exhibition premiere of artist/architect John Kormeling - Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery - Absolutearts.com
Forty-Part Motet, originally commissioned by the Salisbury Festival and performed by the Salisbury Cathedral Choir, is on loan from the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Ottawa.
In Janet Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet, forty separately recorded voices are played back through forty speakers circling the exhibition space.
The effect created is deeply moving and has earned the work a popularity with visitors that is rarely encountered in contemporary art.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/06/21/32139.html   (756 words)

  
 FullSearch.co.uk - Motet
30pm Tallis: Spem in alium (forty-part motet) Joyful Company of Singers Ex Cathedra20' Handel: Zadok the Priest 5' Vivaldi:Motet 'Nulla in mundo pax sincera' 13' Concertoconductor Music for monarchs, and the Vivaldi motet made famous in the film Shine.
Coelos ascendit hodie is an Ascensiontide motet, scored for double choir, and makes much use of dramatic interplay between the two choirs.
This motet ‘remembers’ and seeks to evoke thatbirds and wondrous landscape.
www.fullsearch.co.uk /search-Motet   (392 words)

  
 Forty
Forty Part Motet allows the audience to experience sound from the viewpoint of the choir by physically involving them in the piece.
Forty Fortunes A Tale of Iran Told by Aaron Shepard Illustrated by Alisher Dianov.
This year, the sesquicentennial of the 1849 California Gold Rush, the Committee presents "Forty Niners." Click on one of the choices on the left.
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 BBC - Nottingham - Arts and Literature - NOW festival - Janet Cardiff's 'forty part motet'
Janet Cardiff’s ‘Forty Part Motet’ is open for the duration of the NOW festival, 22nd October until 11th November, everyday from 1pm-7pm.
Janet Cardiff’s award winning ‘forty part motet’ is an emotional and spine tingling piece.
BBC - Nottingham - Arts and Literature - NOW festival - Janet Cardiff's 'forty part motet'
www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/entertainment/artsandliterature/2001_10/nowfest_janet_cardiff.shtml   (751 words)

  
 Life Less Literary: Spem in alium
But the undisputed crowd-puller of the show is Cardiff's Forty Part Motet, the forty-part choral harmony of Spem in Alium nunquam habui, written by Thomas Tallis, played back over forty individual speakers, each one recording an individual singer or group of singers' voice.
I had an opportunity several weeks ago to hear Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet at the Edmonton Art Gallery.
The earliest surviving evidence of Spem in alium's existence is in a catalogue of the library at Nonsuch Palace made in 1596 lists "a song of fortie partes, made by Mr.
www.sumption.org /lifeless/002508.html   (708 words)

  
 Spem in alium, in 40 parts, by Thomas Tallis
Spem in alium nunquam habui, motet in forty parts
Its size alone makes it interesting to look at, let alone hear; it is arguably the most celebrated work Tallis wrote, the motet in forty parts Spem in alium nunquam habui
Spem in alium, in 40 parts, by Thomas Tallis
www.carringbush.net /~pml/music/tallis   (322 words)

  
 gerontius.net UK choirs Discussion Board - Jonathan Dove
I wanted to write something about light, and he suggested this Latin text, which Alessandro Striggio had set four hundred years ago as a forty-part motet.
Latin text set by Alessandro Striggio (c.1540-92) in his forty-part motet Ecce Beatam Lucem.
The authorship is uncertain: it may be by Striggio himself.
www.gerontius.net /ukchoirsdiscussion/messages/5/45.html?996811395   (322 words)

  
 POWER PLANT JANET CARDIFF
Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet is generously supported by Lazard, Victoria Jackman and Bruce Kuwabara, Nancy McCain and William Morneau, Laura Rapp and Jay Alan Smith, Evan Siddall and Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts.
While the visual background of Forty-Part Motet is not unimportant, Cardiff’s emphasis on the three-dimensional or sculptural qualities of sound is what distinguishes her work as a visual artist.
Janet Cardiff is one of the rising stars of the art world today, one of the few Canadian artists to enjoy an international career.
www.thepowerplant.org /exhibitions/Summer_04_Janet/info.htm   (322 words)

  
 Janet Cardiff: Walking thru - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21) / Space in Progress - Absolutearts.com
On April 20th Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21) opened its FIRST SPACE IN PROGRESS concept in Vienna and presents major installations representative of Janet Cardiff`s works: To Touch (1993), Hillclimbing (1999), The Forty Part Motet (2001), House Burning (2001), and Feedback (2004) as well as new collages.
The major audio work The Forty Part Motet will be exhibited at the renown Semperdepot in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
The catalogue, edited by Mirjam Schaub was commissioned and published by T-B A21 and is distributed by the Walther König Verlag, Cologne.
absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/04/21/31984.html   (322 words)

  
 eye - Janet Cardiff - 06.17.04
To describe Janet Cardiff's crowd-pleasing, Millennium Prize-winning "Forty-Part Motet" as a religious experience is redundant: the sound sculpture consists of 40 speakers, each playing 40 separately recorded voices singing Thomas Tallis' "Spem in Alium," a complex 16th-century polyphonic choral piece written, of course, in praise of The Almighty Himself.
Janet Cardiff's "Forty-Part Motet" opens June 18, 7-11pm and runs to Sept 6.
But Cardiff enlarges the adulatory qualities of Tallis' work, giving special credence to his and the Salisbury Cathedral Choir's beautiful creation by having gallery-goers navigate around the speakers so that the harmonies modulate and rebound in intimate, varied and deliciously sinuous ways.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.17.04/arts/eyecandy.html   (322 words)

  
 A World of Sound - Aruna D'Souza
Cardiff's work forces you into imagined relations with spectral presences that surround you, relations that can be profoundly comforting, as in Forty-Part Motet, or threatening, as in The Paradise Institute, while simultaneously pointing out your powerlessness in the face of the spectacle taking place.
Walking into the gallery at P.S. 1 where Janet Cardiff s Forty-Part Motet was installed, you found little to see.
Much of Cardiff's work and her collaborations with Bures Miller rely on active participation (to go on the walk, to explore the room, to run hands over the table) or at least a refusal of the spectator's usual passivity (as in the film works).
www.elon.edu /arcturus/currentissue/technoarts/worldofsound.htm   (322 words)

  
 HOASM: Loyset Compère
Compère's extant outputs consists of two Masses and four Mass sections, three motet cycles, twenty-three motets and Magnificats, five motet-chansons, forty-nine chansons and two frottolas.
Compère's motet-chansons have a tenor with Latin text glossed by the French words of the upper voices, as in the exquisite Royne du ciel/Regina caeli.
A singer in the Sforza family chapel in Milan in 1474-5, and a court chapel singer in Paris in 1486; a prebendary at Cambrai in 1498 and at Douai in 1500; at his death he was a canon at S. Quentin.
www.hoasm.org /IVA/Compere.html   (190 words)

  
 Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet, Laura Kikauka: Exactly the Same, but Completely Different and the North American exhibition premiere of artist/architect John Kormeling - Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery - Absolutearts.com
In Janet Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet, forty separately recorded voices are played back through forty speakers circling the exhibition space.
Even though Cardiff‚s true medium in this work is sound, her emphasis on the sculptural qualities of sound is what distinguishes her as an artist.
Cardiff and George Bures Miller, represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale with their acclaimed work, The Paradise Institute.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/06/21/32139.html   (190 words)

  
 Edmonton Art Gallery - Current Exhibitions
The installation, Forty-Part Motet, is based on 16th century English composer Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium, one of the most complex pieces of polyphonic choral music ever written.
Cardiff's recreation of the Motet was recorded by the Salisbury Choir in Britain using 40 separate microphones.
A reworking of "Spem in Alium," 1575, by Thomas Tallis
www.edmontonartgallery.com /exhibitions/past/2004/Cardiff.htm   (405 words)

  
 Sign Singing Signiture - Alan Read
If Spem in Alium is quite unlike anything produced in Europe around its time then Janet Cardiff’s humanistic treatment of this Gothic splendour and imagination makes ‘Forty Part Motet&; quite unlike anything her European counterparts have been able to achieve more recently.
Janet Cardif, "Spem in Alium - 40 part motet,"&; The New Art Gallery Walsall
At this point the choral master cuts in and there is a loaded silence broken from behind by the rush of vocal energy that marks the divide between the speaking we have heard to this point and the singing of Tallis’s ‘Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui’.
www.roehampton.ac.uk /artshum/arts/performance/THEATRE%20CAPITAL/walsall.html   (4387 words)

  
 The Independent Sunday (London, England): Music: Sixteenth-century surround sound; Janet Cardiff has arranged Tallis's `Spem in alium' for 40 loudspeakers. Christopher Wood investigates.(Features)@ HighBeam Research
The slightly less glamorous location of Salisbury Cathedral is the setting for Cardiff's latest art work, Forty Part Motet, which forms part of this year's Salisbury Festival, starting this week.
The motet is Thomas Tallis's 16th-century choral work, Spem in alium, which Cardiff has recorded...
Conceptual artist Janet Cardiff has an intimate relationship with her acoustic environment.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:74766623&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (4387 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: National Gallery of Canada
The largest work in the Gallery is the entire interior of the Rideau Street Chapel, the ornate chapel of a demolished girls' school, which also features Cardiff's Forty-Part Motet.
The Gallery's former director Jean Sutherland Boggs was chosen especially by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to oversee construction of the national gallery and museums.
The Gallery was first formed in 1880 by Canada's Governor General John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and, in 1882, moved into its first home on Parliament Hill in the same building as the Supreme Court.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Gallery-of-Canada   (1545 words)

  
 Alfred Jacob Miller ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
The music used in Forty Part Motet is Spem in Alium nunquam habui, written by Thomas Tallis, one of the most influential English composers of sixteenth century.
As muse, Miller was a rare inspiration, equally comfortable and forceful in front of and behind the camera and canvas.
A classically beautiful young woman, Lee Miller is discovered by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is immortalised by Steichen, Hoynigen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographs.
wwar.com /masters/m/miller-alfred_jacob.html   (1754 words)

  
 HOASM: The Ars Nova in Italy
Although he often retains an isorhythmic framework, Ciconia was sufficiently influenced by Italian usage to write two motets with identical texts in both upper parts, which are unified by thematic relationships, while the tenor is free.
Niccolo, with twenty-one ballate out of forty-one compositions, seems to have spent some time in Florence, perhaps 1360-65, since several of his compositions have texts by Franco Sacchetti, but he also wrote a piece in honour of the Visconti of Milan.
Antonio da Civitate was one of the few composers of the late trecento who wrote in isorhythmic motet style, for instance in a piece in honour of Giorgio Ordelaffi, lord of Forli, and his wife.
www.hoasm.org /IIIA/ArsNovaItaly.html   (1754 words)

  
 Samuel Miller ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
The music used in Forty Part Motet is Spem in Alium nunquam habui, written by Thomas Tallis, one of the most influential English composers of sixteenth century.
William Miller, Shakespeare - Third Part of Henry VI - Act IV, Scene V., 18th - 19th century
As muse, Miller was a rare inspiration, equally comfortable and forceful in front of and behind the camera and canvas.
www.wwar.com /masters/m/miller-samuel.html   (1754 words)

  
 Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Tallis
In addition, his magnificent and justly famous setting of the motet "Spem in Alium" for forty voices uses the largest set of forces known in Renaissance music.
Sacred Choral Music (Spem in alium, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Masses, Motets)
These include a pair each of "In Nomine" consort pieces and organ compositions in which the most extravagant technical means are employed.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/tallis.html   (536 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thomas Tallis
His fecundity as a composer was enormous, and he wrote several tours de force including a forty-part motet "Spem aliam non habui" ["Spem in alium nunquam habui" — ed.
Many of his masses are of great merit, especially his "Salve intemerata" and his mass for four voices.
The metrical epitaph which was placed over his tomb was subsequently set to music by De Cooke.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14435a.htm   (433 words)

  
 Naxos of America June 2005 New Release Guide
Scored for forty independent voices, Spem in alium, a work of Tallis’s maturity, dwarfs any other English work of the period.
The motet Salve intemerata, written when Tallis was a young man, is one of the longest single movements of the entire 16th century.
Along with his pupil William Byrd, Thomas Tallis was the finest composer of the English Renaissance.
www.naxos.com /naxos/USA/NRG200506/page5.html   (432 words)

  
 MDT - 6110111, Naxos SACD
Here we present Tallis’ largest compositions for the church: his youthful motet Salve intemerata is one of the longest single movements of the entire 16th century; while Spem in alium, a work of Tallis’s maturity, dwarfs any other English work of the period.
Scored for forty independent voices and symphonic in its proportions and conception, it is his greatest masterpiece.
June’s CD of the Month is this stunning performance of Tallis’ tour de force Spem in alium, released to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/6110111.htm   (190 words)

  
 Tippett at Morley College: Tallis's Spem in alium - nmcrec.co.uk
Earlier, in his capacity as manager of artists and repertoire for HMV, Legge invited Tippett and the Morley College Choir to make the first ever recording of the forty-part motet by Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium.
Tippett and the Choir gave one further performance of Spem in alium, in the newly opened Royal Festival Hall, close to Morley College on the South Bank, as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain.
In any case, as Tippett recounted in Those Twentieth Century Blues, “realising that this would mean I had to train them in all the standard choral repertory, irrespective of whether such music was of interest to me as a composer, I turned down his offer and returned to my poverty”.
www.nmcrec.co.uk /?page=tippett/tallis/tallis.html   (1122 words)

  
 Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585) - Some hard to find songs webpage - Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage
This is a remarkable piece: a forty-part motet, each part written out separately.
Voices come in one by one with the words 'Spem in alium', and weave in and out until the huge thrilling moment several minutes into the work when all 40 voices suddenly sing together.
"Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585)
lachlan.bluehaze.com.au /hardfindsongs/spem_in_alium.html   (543 words)

  
 Spem in Alium: BeatnikPad Journal
The centrepiece of the exhibition was the Forty-Part Motet, which is based around a choral piece by composer Thomas Tallis entitled Spem in Alium.
Spem in Alium starts off as a simple, quiet piece, but slowly becomes more and more multi-layered as more voices join in counterpart, repeating the same prayer, until the piece nearly overwhelms you in wave after wave of sound.
The beauty of the piece is that Cardiff has separated each singer into their own speaker, so you can walk around the room and focus in on one single voice, step back and listen to a small section of singers, or sit in the middle of the room and take in everything at once.
www.beatnikpad.com /archives/2003/08/16/spem_in_alium   (769 words)

  
 Janet Cardiff: Walking thru - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21) / Space in Progress - Absolutearts.com
On April 20th Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21) opened its FIRST SPACE IN PROGRESS concept in Vienna and presents major installations representative of Janet Cardiff`s works: To Touch (1993), Hillclimbing (1999), The Forty Part Motet (2001), House Burning (2001), and Feedback (2004) as well as new collages.
T-B A21 SPACE IN PROGRESS With the SPACE IN PROGRESS, T-B A21 is creating a platform for contemporary art in Vienna, fulfilling the foundation's purpose of sharing its collection with the public and offering its resources to artists for production, display and critical commentary of their works of art.
The catalogue, edited by Mirjam Schaub was commissioned and published by T-B A21 and is distributed by the Walther König Verlag, Cologne.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/04/21/31984.html   (540 words)

  
 List of years in art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2001 in art Janet Cardiff - Forty-Part Motet
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 List of years in art - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
2001 in art Janet Cardiff - Forty-Part Motet
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List of years in art - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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