Hugh Aston - Music

Music

Four sacred vocal compositions by Aston survive substantially complete:

  • Missa Te Deum (five voices)
  • Missa Videte manus meas (six voices)
  • Gaude mater matris Christe (five voices)
  • Te Deum laudamus (five voices)

Other compositions survive in fragments.

In addition, he wrote keyboard music, most of which shows an unusually progressive use of idiomatic keyboard: his Hornepype in particular is often cited as an example of early idiomatic keyboard writing.Some other famous early keyboard pieces have been attributed to him on stylistic grounds, including the often-recorded and anthologized My Lady Careys Dompe.

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