A Scottish Lady Mass Sacred Music from Medieval St. Andrews
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At the center of what the Scottish Tourist Board likes to call the "Kingdom of Fife" is the town of St. Andrews.  Now famed as much for golf courses as for the striking location of the cathedral and Bishop's castle.  The early ecclesiastic inhabitants of St. Andrews were loosely affiliated to Rome, and there were strong links with the Continental mainland, with bishops amost exclusively coming from Norman families.  It should therefore come as no surprise to find that St Andrews is the original home of a manuscript of polyphonic music whose contents originated in Paris.  But what is surprising is the very nature of the music to be found in the pages of this manuscript.  Liturgical idiosyncrasies abound as local musicians infuse the standard "Parisian" repertory with references to their own St Andrew, and the musical idiom finds itself stripped of many of the obfuscating intricacies beloved of the Continental contemporaries, leaving a style which is more direct and - it could be argued - more accessible to the modern ear.  On this disc, the members of Red Byrd do not present a complete reconstruction of a Lady Mass (a ceremony in praise of the Virgin Mary), however the repertory on this disc well reflects the liturgical inclusiveness of the musical culture that the cathedral engendered.

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