Composer Study - Claude Goudimel
Claude Goudimel
“they (the psalms) had been composed, not to be sung at church but to enable the faithful to rejoice in God, especially in their own homes”
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Claude Goudimel related food: Palmiers
Make and eat this French Dessert. Click on the picture below to go to the recipe.
Claude Goudimel’s Music
SONG 1: Claude Goudimel: Psalm 23 - Mon Dieu me paist sous sa puissance haute
SONG 2: Comfort, Comfort Ye My People by Claude Goudimel
The St. John's Cathedral Compline Choir in Los Angeles sing this Goudimel hymn.
SONG 3: Claude Goudimel: Psalm 25, A toy, mon Dieu, mon cœur monte, a 4 / Ensemble Lamaraviglia
A musical panorama of the time in all four national languages
The Genevan Psalter - a European synthesis of the arts
In the middle of the 16th century, the Geneva Psalter infected the whole of Reformed Europe – Switzerland included – with a true psalm fever. The first complete collection of all 150 psalms, promoted by the Genevan reformer Jean Calvin, was published in 1562. The psalm verses were translated into French and provided with melodies by various Genevan cantors.
Thanks to the collection’s immense importance for the Reformation and its unique artistic content, these psalms inspired like none before the most influential composer of the time to write a large number of polyphonic psalm settings. The four-part psalms composed by Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) were published in 1564, just two years after their initial release. Set in a simple note-against-note setting with the well-known Genevan melodies in the tenor part, these psalms quickly gained incredible popularity. They were provided with translations of the texts into German, Dutch, Italian, even Rhaeto-Romanic and printed in large quantities, so they spread in no time throughout Europe, reaching even Switzerland’s furthest mountain valleys. https://www.claves.ch/collections/ancient-music/products/psalms-and-motets-from-renaissance-switzerland
SONG 4: Psalm 42: Goudimel, Tallis, Palestrina—Flos Campi
Three settings of Psalm 42:
"Ainsi qu'on oit le cerf bruire" (1565 & 1580 versions) by Claude Goudimel (c. 1510-1572)
"E'en like the hunted hind", The Fifth Tune from Archbishop Parker's Psalter, 1567 by Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)
"Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594)
Song 5: Psalm 1 - Genevan Psalter 1539
The Genevan Psalter is a collection with melodies for the psalm for Reformed or Calvinistic Christians. This is Psalm 1.