This is simply outstanding melody. Defines the actual word...Melody and what it means especialy to the listener. To me it is what 'Listenability" is all about. Absolutly not even a hint of harsness. Bach could take a hint or two from this as I believe the greta JSB was at times very stressed and it showed in some of his works.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were ignorant at all. Beard was probably equally as famous a singer of Greene and Boyce's anthems as he was of Handel's oratorios in his own time, and it's quite possible Boyce was using his voice as a role-model for his tenor writing.
It was actually John Church who was supposed to be singing the first performance in Dublin, not John Beard in London although a private performance was arranged before the 1742/43 Dublin concert series. Boyce transposed a lot of the music for the Dublin performances, as he did with other music he performed there as Church seems to have been a haute-contre, but with the full lower tenor range! Although I don't doubt Boyce would still write wonderful tenor parts, whoever was singing :)
Wonderfull Bassoon If I may say so. Is there any video of Sally doing a concerto by anyone famous.
grandadpoppyable 8 months ago
This is simply outstanding melody. Defines the actual word...Melody and what it means especialy to the listener. To me it is what 'Listenability" is all about. Absolutly not even a hint of harsness. Bach could take a hint or two from this as I believe the greta JSB was at times very stressed and it showed in some of his works.
grandadpoppyable 8 months ago
Lol let me be more specific lol the Sheetmusic!
wrmcchriston 10 months ago
does anyone know where i can acquire this music!.
wrmcchriston 10 months ago
Great music! Thank you so much!
VernonVince 11 months ago
Great stuff
this would have been uplifting in the depressing times after the Cartegena disaster a year earlier
LordGeorgeRodney 1 year ago
Gorgeous
buboy1685 1 year ago
this guys my friends like great great uncle or some shit
rednight014 2 years ago
Two words "Simply Excellent"
HOT5PUR1 2 years ago
Maybe I should have said he was writing with the voice type of John Beard in mind - then I might not have sounded so ignorant.
handel86 3 years ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were ignorant at all. Beard was probably equally as famous a singer of Greene and Boyce's anthems as he was of Handel's oratorios in his own time, and it's quite possible Boyce was using his voice as a role-model for his tenor writing.
TheCrazyCello 3 years ago
...that's because he was writing for John Beard.
handel86 3 years ago
It was actually John Church who was supposed to be singing the first performance in Dublin, not John Beard in London although a private performance was arranged before the 1742/43 Dublin concert series. Boyce transposed a lot of the music for the Dublin performances, as he did with other music he performed there as Church seems to have been a haute-contre, but with the full lower tenor range! Although I don't doubt Boyce would still write wonderful tenor parts, whoever was singing :)
TheCrazyCello 3 years ago
*For more info check out:
I. Bartlett, R. J. Bruce, William Boyce's 'Solomon', Music & Letters, Vol. 61, No. 1, OUP (Jan., 1980) 28-49
TheCrazyCello 3 years ago
William Boyce has wonderful tenor parts. And lovely sweeping violin parts.
sparebone 3 years ago