Looking for a book called CANONS
  • amindthatsuits
    Posts: 860
    I saw a reference to a book simply as "Thomas, Canons." It is supposedly a book with lots of, you know, canons, but the title is so frustratingly simple I am trouble locating the full bibliographic reference.

    Anyone recognize it?

    Thanks.

    Kenneth
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,611
    LInk

    "... some of the most exquisite gems of vocal composition ever
    written, together with productions of so questionable, or rather
    unquestionable a character, that it is a pity that the fire which
    consumed the greater portion of the stock of copies did not
    consume the whole." W.A. Barrett (1886), p. 209.

    "... the proportion of wheat to chaff is remarkably high. There is
    barely a page that is not a delight to sing.... The music of the
    Warren Collection ... is wasted languishing in rare editions on
    a few library shelves. It rather deserves renewed study and performance
    as a monument of all that was best in Georgian culture. The spirit that
    will bear most fruit in approaching these pieces is embodied in the
    motto of the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club: 'Let's drink and
    let's sing together.'" Emanuel Rubin, from his Introduction to the
    1970 Facsimile Edition.

    Thomas Warren was the founding Secretary of the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club. These volumes contain compositions that he selected and published from among entries in the Catch Club's prize competitions.
  • amindthatsuits
    Posts: 860
    Figures you know, Noel.

    And the reference was on a site whose owner is not a native English speaker, so misunderstood what name to use.

    Thanks.

    Kenneth
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  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,611
    I just got lucky searching, that's all...had never heard of him or these, glad you mentioned them!
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  • amindthatsuits
    Posts: 860
    What I looked at looked pretty sweet. Glad you found it.

    I was looking for sources for bicinia. This website (Bicinium) had a good, if somewhat scattershot, reference list. The owner just gives you the opening, and you have to be admitted to join. But, when i asked, the owner said that he (or she, Andrea) had lost interest and was getting rid of them the bicinia.

    Do you know any other collections? I suppose I should go to CPDL and ask for two voices.

    Kenneth
  • amindthatsuits
    Posts: 860
    Yes, the voicings list has hundreds...
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