We cover this style when we're doing RENAISSANCE music, and you're most likely to hear an example from that era in your exam (if you hear one at all). The first four tracks on this playlist are RENAISSANCE, and typically are mostly POLYPHONIC in texture and either A CAPELLA or accompanied by ORGAN.
The ANTHEM is not an exclusively RENAISSANCE form, however, and composers have written them ever since then. An ANTHEM from the 20th Century has featured in the Higher exam at least once over the past few years, so I've included some non-Renaissance ones here.
Track 5 (Hear My Prayer) is by the English BAROQUE composer Henry Purcell, and notable for its highly expressive CHROMATIC, at times DISSONANT, HARMONIES.
Track 6 (God is Gone Up) is by Geral Finzi, and track 7 (Give unto the Lord) by Edward Elgar, both from the early 20th Century.
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