Hugh Aston, a contemporary of John Taverner, was choirmaster at the collegiate
church of St Mary Newarke, Leicester for more than 20 years. Te matrem dei
laudamus (a Marian paraphrase of the Te Deum) and his Mass Te deum laudamus
(to be published as RCM27) are probably the pair of works that he offered for
the Oxford BMus in 1510. Like most of his music, they are very ornate,
rhythmically dynamic and unusually dissonant. For five part choir. viii + 23 pages. |
