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    John Taverner was a 16th century English composer who worked at Oxford and St. Botolph's Church, though little is known about his life. He composed sacred music in the traditional style until 1530 when he began experimenting more. Taverner was innovative in developing motifs throughout his works. His Western Wind Mass set the secular song "Western Wind" in four movements using counterpoint, equal length movements, and clear harmonic progressions. It exhibited the emerging English style through its long melismatic sections and rhythmic motifs. However, many details of Taverner's life remain uncertain or unsupported by evidence.

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    John Taverner was a 16th century English composer who worked at Oxford and St. Botolph's Church, though little is known about his life. He composed sacred music in the traditional style until 1530 when he began experimenting more. Taverner was innovative in developing motifs throughout his works. His Western Wind Mass set the secular song "Western Wind" in four movements using counterpoint, equal length movements, and clear harmonic progressions. It exhibited the emerging English style through its long melismatic sections and rhythmic motifs. However, many details of Taverner's life remain uncertain or unsupported by evidence.

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    John Taverner's Western Wind Mass

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    John Taverner was a 16th century English composer who worked at Oxford and St. Botolph's Church, though little is known about his life. He composed sacred music in the traditional style until 1530 when he began experimenting more. Taverner was innovative in developing motifs throughout his works. His Western Wind Mass set the secular song "Western Wind" in four movements using counterpoint, equal length movements, and clear harmonic progressions. It exhibited the emerging English style through its long melismatic sections and rhythmic motifs. However, many details of Taverner's life remain uncertain or unsupported by evidence.

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    John Taverners

    Western Wind Mass


    Beth and Taylor

    The Man
    - Born around 1490, lived until 1545
    - Lived in Boston, Lincolnshire for most of his life.
    - Worked at Cardinal Wolseys foundation in Oxford and and later St.
    Botolphs (a large parish church), but his professional music career
    did not last extremely long
    - Composed specifically within the traditions of Church music up
    until 1530
    - After 1530 his compositions took a more experimental turn, but
    only ever so slightly

    The Myth

    Letter to Thomas Cromwell

    It is almost unbelievable how many things are


    unsure about Taverners life:
    -

    The date of his birth is really unknown.

    He MAY have sung in a boys choir at the collegiate church at


    Tattershall, Lincolnshire, as many believe, but there is no evidence
    to support this claim.

    He MAY have joined the Fraternity of St. Nicholas in 1514 (a guild of parish
    clerks and choir clerks), but just as likely did not seeing as though not all of
    these gentlemen were even musicians and the John Taverner on the roster
    might not have been OUR John Taverner. This is because the John
    Taverner listed wasnt registered as a musician.

    He worked as an agent of the Crown under Thomas Cromwell, but his exact
    role in the repression of the English monasteries is unknown along with his
    attitude during this period.

    The Legend
    John Taverner was outstanding among English musicians and composers of his time.
    Most prominent compositional habit:
    -

    Developing a recognizable motif to use throughout a work, within one or more voices,
    commonly in melismatic sections.

    Why was this innovative?


    -

    According to Grove Music Online, this gave many of his long melismatic sections a
    cogency and sense of direction less apparent in those of earlier composers.

    Musical Characteristics
    SATB Format
    Use of duets to contrast different
    sections
    Old Fashioned but not conservative
    Equal length of four movements
    Emergence of clear harmonic
    progressions
    Refusal to divide mass into
    unnecessarily small pieces
    Cantus Fermus Mass

    Musical Characteristics contd


    Contrapuntal variations on a secular theme Westron Wynde
    Melody first appeared in 1530(ish)
    Not a folk song, but a popular song
    Transposed Dorian mode
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westron_Wynde
    Exhibits English style of long melisma usage
    This develops into the English Virginal style of variations (Melody and counterpoint)
    Both his earlier florid style and later more simplistic style
    Develops rhythmic motifs that appear throughout the mass

    Citations
    Davison, Nigel. "The "Western Wind" Masses." The Musical Quarterly 57.3 (1971): 427-43.
    Web.
    Parrott, Andrew. Western Wind: Mass by John Taverner and Court Music for Henry VIII, Avie
    Records, London.
    Bowers, R., et. al. Taverner, John. Oxford Music Online.

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