In the last of our Keene Lectures for this term Matthew Gouldstone talks on the following theme:
A shifting landscape (17th century)
'The Jacobean and Carolinian periods allowed England to press ahead with its newly derived Anglican musical model. In the early 17th Century, the possibility of a return to the old ways of Latin music arose, but following the restoration, Anglican Church music never looked back and the opportunity to create a specific musical culture was seized with both hands. To this day, that tradition has remained largely unbroken. In this lecture we find out if all these associated developments have led us to a better and more secure musical landscape.'
Matthew Gouldstone
Matthew has many strings to his musical bow, as a singer, director and research consultant on early music performance, specialising in polyphony from Europe pre-1650. Currently, he is a senior research associate supervising the faculty of music at Peterhouse College at the University of Cambridge. He is also a consultant musicologist, having worked on projects with universities in Florida, Salzburg, Verona and Sheffield, looking at the connection between performance and musicology.
As a performer, he has travelled the world as part of Capilla Flamenca as well as joining ensembles including the Tallis Scholars, Huelgas Ensemble, Capella Pratensis, La Grande Chapelle, Cinquecento and Vox Luminis as an independent artist. He has also co-founded two major ensembles in Cambridge, the Cambridge Early Music Consort (CEMC) programme (cambridgeearlymusicconsort.org) and L'Isola (lisola.org).