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\V EDGED in among the usual items of a recent 3YA Sunday afternoon bill-of-fare was the unexpected treat of a programme of 16th Century Church Music. This was presented with a short survey of the general historical background of the age, and of the music’s relation to it-necessarily short and incomplete, but still sufficient to give an idea of the setting in which the music belonged, and its composer lived. It seems a pity that names such as Victoria, William Byrd; and Palestrina should be heard so seldom on the air to-day, although I suppose that works like these cannot be introduced indiscriminately into a programme. It also
seems a pity to emphasise, as the announcer of this programme did, the remoteness of the music-‘that we should be ‘careful not to judge it by to-day’s standards"-or to suggest that what we are listening to are merely musical museum-pieces, curious and interesting but nothing more. Surely Palestrina’s superb Mass, the "Missa Papae Marcelli," is one of the finest pieces of Church Music ever written. Those who saw the film version of Henry V. may remember the very fine use made in it of the music of this period; in particular I remember Palestrina’s "Non Nobis Domine."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 19
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