Caroline Lesemann-Elliot (b. 1996)
Musicologist; Composer; Conductor; Ensemble Manager; Korrigan Consort
Works published by MoV
Regina Caeli (SS & continuo)
Regina Caeli (SS & continuo)
The melody of this piece comes from the English Augustinian Convent at St Monica’s Convent in Louvain in modern-day Belgium. The Convent was established in 1609 as the first Augustinian convent for exiled English Catholic women in the Low Countries. It had a strong musical tradition, and the women entering all such English convents would have been trained to the highest musical standards, for both liturgical and recreational purposes. Sadly very little material remains, but future research will hopefully identify more music with links to these exiled English convents. Upon the French Revolution, the English Augustinians at St Monica’s returned to England, eventually settling at St Monica’s Priory in Spetisbury in Dorset. In this arrangement the original metrical chant is presented in its entirety in the top voice, though the original markings have been modified and the slurs are editorial. The harmonisation within the arrangement is informed by the musical practices at the Convent, but is original to this arrangement. (Caroline Lesemann-Elliott)
Translation: Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
The Son whom you were worthy to bear, alleluia,
has risen, as He said, alleluia.
Regina Caeli (SS & continuo)
This work is published in our anthology Volume 2 and as a licenced digital pdf
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Caroline Lesemann-Elliott (b. 1996)
Caroline Lesemann-Elliott is the ensemble manager for women’s voices consort, Korrigan Consort. She recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh. She is a singer, conductor and award-winning composer. Caroline’s compositions have been performed around the UK by Christ Church Cathedral Choir, the Edinburgh Composers’ Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the New Voices Consort. She was the composer in residence at the Picture Gallery of Royal Holloway in 2019. Caroline currently conducts Wolfson College Choir, Cambridge, and is a Phd candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. As a musicologist, Caroline is particularly interested in sacred music by sixteenth and seventeenth century English Catholic women and the relationship between post-Reformation English Convent music and domestic musical traditions in recusant households of the seventeenth century. (Caroline Lesemann-Elliott)
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