NAGRANIE REFERENCYJNE - 20bit - FIBER OPTIC DISK
The song Go from my Window opens with a perfect phrase. Its six notes, moving through only three pitches and returning to their starting place, outline a major third, the one perfect interval in meantone tuning. It is a phrase whose heartbreaking serenity is so often found in the English virginal composers, especially in the greatest of them all, William Byrd. Slightly modified, the phrase comes back in Sweelinck's Chapelle variations, in Gibbons' first ground and in Bull's first alman. Its rising third can be heard at the start of Bull's prelude and in the opening of his pavan for Lord Lumley. In addition, Morley's second statement, placed a tone above the first, is echoed harmonically in Bull's pavan and in the final section of the Barley Break, at the very end of the record - Colin Tilney ©1994