Professional vocal ensemble Blue Heron performs an excerpt
from a work by English composer Hugh Aston at Bowdoin College in October
2008. The treble and tenor parts were recomposed by Professor Nick Sandon.
Blue Heron expects to release this work on CD in March 2010.
Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 1 By John
Alexander Fuller-Maitland et al.
ASTON HUGH whose name also appears in MSS as
Ashton Aystoun and Austen was one of the leading English pre Reformation
composers
fl c 1500 20 His identity with an ecclesiastic of this name for whom see
the Did A at Biog cannot be proved. Among the MS copies of his church music
are a Mass a 6 Videte manus meas and a Mass a 5 Te Deum in the Oxford Music
School Collection, a Te Deum a 5 in the Bodleian Libr MS Mus e 1 5 and the
following Motets Ave Maria divae Matris; Ave Maria ancilla; Gande
Virgo 0 BaptisM all in the Peterhouse Library Cambridge Ave Domina sancta
Maria incomplete M ffarl 7578 Te Matrcm Dei incomplete University and St
John's Coll Libraries Cambridge A hornpipe for the Virginals by him Brit Mus
Royal MSS App 5S is interesting as an early example of this kind of music
Hugh Aston's Grownde was used by later composers as a theme for variations A
composition for the Virginals by Byrd is found under this name in Lady
Novell's Virginal Book the same piece called Tregian's Ground is in the
Fitzieilliam Virginal Book ed Fuller Maitland and Squire vol ip 226 A
composition by Whytbroke called Hugh Aston's Maske Ch Ch Library Oxford is
apparently based upon the same ground c EPA
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