Name: Robbie de la Vega ID number: 272662086

MUS 144G Assignment 1a

Due Thursday 8th August, 1 pm

Instructions:

Assignment 1 is divided into two sections. This first section, 1a, relates to
library resources and is designed to help you research for section 1b.
If mitigating circumstances mean that you are unable to hand in the
assignment by the due date you will need to contact either Allan or Phillippa
in advance. All the usual penalties for lateness and plagiarism apply.

Tutorials:
The Library is offering some optional 1-hour tutorials to help with this
assignment, on level 4 of the General Library. Bring a laptop or device with
you if possible. You can book one of the tutorial spaces here -
https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/workshops/?p=view_workshop&id=16
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Assignment 1a: MUSIC LIBRARY RESOURCES

1. Finding books in the library 3 marks
https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/
Find a book about the history of madrigals in the library catalogue, and give
the details of this book below.

Author: Timothy R. McKinney

Title: Adrian Willaert and the theory of interval affect : the Musica nova madrigals
and the novel theories of Zarlino and Vicentino

Cont.
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 Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.

Place of publication: Burlington Vt.

Publication date: 2010

Library location and call number: ON-DEMAND COLLECTION General Collection

780.945 W68

2. Find recordings on the MUS 144G playlists 3 marks

Library > Study > Subject Guides > Creative arts > Music > Audio > Naxos Music Library >
Connect > Playlists > CurrentAucklandProf > MUS 144G Madrigal Assignment
playlist

Who is the composer who wrote the song called Weep, O Mine Eyes?

John Bennet

Who are the performers on this recording?

King’s Singers, The Philharmonia Orchestra

3. Find other recordings in Naxos 3 marks

Find another recording of Weep, O Mine Eyes?

Who are the performers on this recording? Bless

B Quintet

4. Find scores on-line 3 marks

Library > Study > Subject guides > Music > Scores > Choral Public Domain Library

Search for the madrigal “Thule the period of cosmography” in the Choral Public
Domain Library.

Who is the composer?

Thomas Weelkes

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 How many voices is it composed for?
6 Voices: SSATBB

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 5. Find scores in the library 3 marks
https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/

Find a physical copy of the Oxford Book of English Madrigals and then locate
the score of the madrigal Quick quick away, dispatch.

Who is the composer?

Philip Ledger

Who is the madrigal dedicated to? (big hint: check the footnotes)

6. Find reference works 10 marks

Library > Study > Subject Guides > Creative Arts > Music > Databases > Oxford
Music Online

Find the Madrigal article written by Kurt von Fischer et al.

a. What is the definition of a madrigal given in this article?

“A poem without rules and without specified form” or “A song in the mother tongue”

b. Who wrote Section IV: The English Madrigal?

Joseph Kerman

c. Who do they suggest were the 3 most famous English madrigal composers?

Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes and John Wilbye

d. What was Thomas Campion’s complaint about madrigals?

“Campion now prefaced his First Booke of Ayres (1601) with a sharp attack on music ‘which is
long, intricate, bated with fuge, chaind with sincopation, and where the nature of everie word is
precisely expresst in the Note … such childish observing of words is altogether ridiculous’.”

Total 25 marks weighted to 5%