Devised and introduced by Frank Harrison
Extracts from the ' Little Devise of the Coronation of Henry VII' and Hoveden's Chronicle read by Alan Wheatley
Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington
Ralph Downes (organ)
The music in this programme extends in time from the twelfth century to the. sixteenth, and it illustrates the changes in the style of English choral music over a period of four centuries. The programme begins with the only piece of medieval parr-music definitely known to have had a connection with a Coronation: this is 'a setting of the poem Redit aetas aurea, written, according to a manuscript containing the words, for the Coronation of Richard Coeur de Lion.