Crawford Young

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Crawford Young (* 1952 ) is an American lutenist and musicologist based in Basel .

He is the director of the Ferrara Ensemble as well as the ensembles Project Ars Nova (PAN) and Shield of Harmony and was a long-time companion of Andreas Scholl .

Robert Crawford Young graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston in 1976 with a degree in classical guitar, lute and tenor banjo. At Stanford University he came into contact with Thomas Binkley (1932–1995) in 1977 and was lutenist with the Sequentia ensemble from 1978–1981 , directed by Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton (1950–1998). From 1982 to 2018 Young taught lute and performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . In 2018 he received his doctorate in musicology from the University of Leiden under Dinko Fabris.

In 1982, Young founded the PAN (Project Ars Nova) ensemble with Laurie Monahan (mezzo-soprano), Michael Collver (countertenor and Stiller Zink). On the occasion of their American debut in 1984, Shira Kammen ( vielle ) and John Fleagle (tenor and medieval harp) joined the ensemble. After the death of John Fleagle from cancer, the group withdrew from concert life in 1999.

Almost at the same time as the PAN ensemble, the Ferrara Ensemble was founded in Basel in 1983. The ensemble included students from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and remained flexible in its cast. The members included: Randall Cook (viola d'arco, vielle), Lena Susanne Norin (alto), Kathleen Dineen (soprano), Debra Gomez (harp), Stephen Grant (baritone), Norihisa Sugawara (lute), Marion Fourquier (harp), Miriam Andersén (mezzo-soprano, harp), Masako Art (harp), Raitis Grigalis (baritone), Els Janssens-Vanmunster (mezzo-soprano), Eve Kopli (soprano), Jessica Marshall (viola d'arco), Eric Mentzel (Tenor), Karl-Heinz Schickhaus (Dulcemelos).

In 2012 Young founded the Ensemble Shield of Harmony on the occasion of a recording and concert project on Oswald von Wolkenstein with Andreas Scholl. The line-up changes depending on the project and included the following musicians: Kathleen Dineen (soprano), Marc Lewon (lute, vielle), Margit Übellacker (dulcemelos), Miriam Andersén (mezzo-soprano, harp), Patrizia Bovi (soprano) and Mauro Borgioni (Baritone).

Young is one of the leading interpreters of the lute repertoire of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Publications

  • Robert Crawford Young: On the trail of ensemble music in the fifteenth century. In: Tess Knighton, David Fallows (Eds.): Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. Berkeley / Los Angeles 1992, Chapter 25, pp. 143-145.
  • Crawford Young: Lute, grate, & citole. In: Ross W. Duffin (Ed.): A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2000, pp. 355-375.
  • Crawford Young (Ed.): Missa sine nomine from the choir book of Charles the Bold. Edition Tympanon 201, St. Oswald / Austria 2002.
  • Robert Crawford Young, Martin Kirnbauer: Early lute tablatures in facsimile / Early lute tablatures in facsimile. (= Practica Musicale. 6). Edited by Thomas Drescher. Amadeus, Winterthur / Switzerland 2003.
  • Crawford Young: Tablature before 1400? Reflections on Lute-specific Notation and Boethian Roots. In: Quarterly of the Lute Society of America 52/1 (2017), pp. 6-12.
  • Crawford Young: La Cetra Cornuta: the Horned Lyre of the Christian World. D. Phil. Dissertation, Leiden, 2018.

Recordings

With Ensemble PAN (Project Ars Nova):

  • Ars Magis Subtiliter. Secular Music of the Chantilly Codex. New Albion Records, 1989.
  • The Island of St. Hylarion - Music of Cyprus 1413-1422. New Albion Records, 1991.
  • Guillaume de Machaut : Remède de Fortune. New Albion Records, 1994.
  • Unseen Rain - New music for old instruments. New Albion Records, 1994.

With the Ferrara Ensemble :

  • Alexander Agricola : Secular music. German Harmonia Mundi, 1990, 2010
  • Forse che si, forse che no - Musique de danse du Quattrocento. Fonti Musicali 182.
  • Hildebrandston - Chansonniers Allemands du XVe siècle. Producer Michel Bernstein Arcana A35.
  • Balades a III chans de Johan Robert "Trebor" & al. Arcana A32 1994. "Helas pitié envers moy dort si fort" republished in: Figures of Harmony: Songs of Codex Chantilly c.1390 , 4 CDs, 2015.
  • Fleurs de vertus - Chansons subtle à la fin du XIVè siècle. Arcana A40. "Pictagoras Jabol et Orpheüs" republished in: Figures of Harmony: Songs of Codex Chantilly c.1390 , 4 CDs, 2015.
  • The Whyte Rose - Poétique anglo-bourguignone au temps de Charles le Téméraire. Arcana A301.
  • En doulz chastel de Pavie - Chansons à la cour des Visconti, 1400. (Songs for the court of Visconti, 1400) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis "Documenta", Harmonia Mundi 905241 "De ma doulour" republished in: Figures of Harmony: Songs of Codex Chantilly c.1390 , 4 CDs, 2015.
  • Guillaume de Machaut: Mercy ou Mort - Chansons & motets d'amour. Arcana A305
  • Walter Frye : Northerne Wynde. Marc Aurel Edition 20018
  • Corps Femenin - L'avant-Garde De John, Duke of Berry | Jean Duc De Berry. Senleches , Trebor, Solage . Arcana, recorded 2000 & 2008, published 2010. "Angelorum psalat tripudium" republished in: Figures of Harmony: Songs of Codex Chantilly c.1390 , 4 CDs, 2015.

With Shield of Harmony :

  • Oswald von Wolkenstein: Songs of myself Andreas Scholl . Harmonia Mundi, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ross W. Duffin: A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music. 2002, p. 576.
  2. ↑ James Jolly Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 2002, p. 1258.
  3. ↑ Musical America: directory issue 1999, p. 160.
  4. ↑ Lecturers Prof. Crawford Young SCB ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scb-basel.ch
  5. ↑ A Rooley ed. Early lute facsimiles: Early lute tablatures in the facsimile 2006.
  6. ↑ Michael Collver ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bostoncamerata.org
  7. ↑ Link to download the dissertation from the server of the University of Leiden.
  8. ↑ DHM 77038 Gramophone July 1990.
  9. ↑ Elizabeth A. Davis: A basic music library: essential scores and sound recordings. Music Library Association, 1997, p. 181.
  10. ↑ reissue without sung texts and translations
  11. ^ Peter Hugh Reed: American record guide. Volume 38, Issue 1-2 1998, p. 255.
  12. ↑ Medioevo musicale: bollettino bibliografico della musica medievale. Volumes 6-7, 2003, p. 367.
  13. ↑ Tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 2000, 2, 7, 9, 10 2008, Track 1 2009
personal data
SURNAME Young, Crawford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lutenist and musicologist residing in Basel
DATE OF BIRTH before 1976