February 15th is 16 days after Charles I was beheaded. Perhaps this pavan was composed to commemorate his funeral on February 9th.Thomas Tomkins was a devoted Royalist so perhaps that was his reason for composing this magnificent piece.
Cheers! Lex > Op 31 mrt. 2020, om 19:51 heeft Alain Veylit <al...@musickshandmade.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > "these distracted times" referred to the Civil War. > > > On 3/30/20 5:29 PM, Tristan von Neumann wrote: >> ..for these distracted times. >> >> (Thomas Tomkins) >> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2BEKuWANA >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > --
