Saturday 9 June 2018

Suite: "Henry V" at the Globe Playhouse

Blogger Ref  https://www.youtube.com/Searle8




The following extracts come from the Henry V film of 1944 with music composed by William Walton............




"...................Overture - The Globe Playhouse: Springing from expectant stillness, fanfares, drumming and vigorous, lusciously scored dancing with bags of “period” harmonies conjure the cheerful crowds rowdily assembling for the performance...." 
http://www.musicweb-international.com/Programme_Notes/walton_henryv.htm




In Extract One we hear near the end a Renaissance Concert sounding like a Renaissance Concert at the Globe Playhouse. The players can actually be seen.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQozTk5Gj0&t=1s




In Extract Two we hear near the beginning of the same piece above..but using "modern" orchestration...




 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCMvfLjmVM





For those interested there is a page on this blog on which Walton's used the Agincourt Carol as a basis for "his composition."




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Tuesday 22 May 2018

Early Music and New Music



Blogger Ref  https://www.youtube.com/Searle8


Lucie Skeaping talks to Radio 3's embedded composer Matthew Kaner, New York-based composer Caroline Shaw and viola da gamba player Liam Byrne about how early music pieces and performance practice influence their styles as contemporary composers and performers.


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Wednesday 9 May 2018

Miroque

A Treasury of Early Music  https://www.youtube.com








https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz66gRPmsq0ttIrWSdZXmWeu8x8-owYj








https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroque German version at present, but there should be a translation button somewhere which has played up in the bloggers case!































Wednesday 2 May 2018

Art of Love: Music of Machaut







Art of Love: Music of Machaut




The above features songs of the 14th century drenched in Brazilian, African, and Jazz sounds...Robert Sadin conceived this unique album































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Friday 16 March 2018

La Nef

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXhQB-jfNFo

......an ambitious attempt to bring the story of Perceval and the Grail...to life...with a mixture of original compositions and traditional English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh melodies....(edited from youtube)

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For various uses in France see La Nef (disambiguation)
La Nef (in French wikt:nef means the nave of a ship or church, or a medieval boat) is a French-Canadian early music performance group founded in Quebec in 1991. The founding members were Sylvain Bergeron, guitar and musical director, and Claire Gignac, contralto and recorder, theatrical director and Viviane LeBlanc, soprano.[1]
Their first show was Musiques pour Jeanne la Folle ("Music for Joan the Mad"), later recorded as a CD for Dorian Recordings.

Discography[edit]

  • Music for Joan the Mad (Dorian)
  • Perceval - La quête du Graal vol.1 La Nef Daniel Taylor (Dorian)
  • Perceval - The Quest For The Grail Vol.2 La Nef (Dorian)
  • Garden of Earthly Delights (Dorian)
  • Montsegur: La Tragedie Cathare (Dorian)
  • Musiques des Montagnes - Music of Greece. Claire Gignac (Atma)[2]
  • Oikan Ayns Bethlehem - Celtic Christmas songs. Meredith Hall (Atma)[3]
  • La traverse miraculeuse Les Charbonniers de l'enfer & La Nef (Atma)
  • The Battle of Killiecrankie. Matthew White (Atma)
  • "Dowland in Dublin" - with Michael Slattery, tenor. (Atma)
  • "Trobairitz - Poems of Women Troubadours" - with Shannon Mercer, music by Seán Dagher. (Analekta)

References[edit]

  1. Jump up ^ La Nef (L'actualité, Montréal Nov 1997 "Ses trois fondateurs sont toujours au poste: Sylvain Bergeron, le luthiste le plus actif du Québec, est directeur musical; Claire Gignac, flûtiste, chanteuse et comédienne, voit à l'aspect théâtre; et la soprano Viviane Leblanc"
  2. Jump up ^ Musiques des Montagnes - Music of Greece, Claire Gignac Atma Essay and Greek sung texts and translations
  3. Jump up ^ Oikan Ayns Bethlehem - Celtic Christmas songs Essay with sung texts and translations




































The Fifth Estate - Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Demo Version)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovt5QpKMkYM

The Fifth Estate (band) had a hit record in 1967 with the rock version of "Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead.", in which they interpolated "La Bouree" from the Terpsichore suite.....



Terpsichore is a compendium of more than 300 instrumental dances published in 1612 by the German composer Michael Praetorius. The collection takes its name from the muse of dance.
In his introduction Praetorius takes credit for arranging the music rather than composing the tunes. The collection is based on French dance repertoire of the time, although scholars have identified some of the tunes as coming from elsewhere, for example England.[1]

An illustration of several musical instruments from Syntagma Musicum
The work was rediscovered in the twentieth century by the early music movement. Recordings include a selection performed by the Early Music Consort which was released in 1973.[2]


Instrumentation[edit]

Terpsichore contains some notes which relate to instrumentation, but does not specify which instruments should play particular parts. A variety of instruments have been used to play Terpsichore.
Sometimes performers draw on another work by Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum, which is an important source of information regarding historical instruments. The Early Music Consort used this approach. However, Syntagma Musicum is not necessarily a guide to the instrumentation of Terpsichore. The musicologist Peter Holman suggests that the dances were conceived primarily for violin consorts, although "Praetorius was clearly aware that potential purchasers in Germany might want to play them on wind instruments".[1]

In popular culture[edit]

Film use[edit]

Music[edit]

  • The Fifth Estate (band) had a hit record in 1967 with their rock version of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", in which they interpolated "La Bourrée" from the Terpsichore suite, played on a sopranino recorder in G, as described by Michael Praetorius in the Syntagma.[5]
  • On Cleveland's classical station WCLV 95.5-FM in the 1970s, Albert Petrak used "La Bourrée" as the theme music for his 6:15 am "First Program." Petrak curated a collection of 32 versions of the "Bourrée" for his show.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Peter Holman: Terpsichore at 400: Michael Praetorius as a Collector of Dances. The Viola da Gamba Society Journal, Volume Six, 2012. S. 34-51. Online
  2. Jump up ^ "Praetorius - Dances and Motets. Early Music Consort" (1973); "Terpsichore musarum", Ricercar Consort, Ensemble La Fenice, La bande des luths.
  3. Jump up ^ Lanza, Joseph (2007). Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 9781569764824. 
  4. Jump up ^ "The Devils: Extended Note by Guy Protheroe". maxopus.com. Retrieved 21 March 2016. 
  5. Jump up ^ Jancik, Wayne (2010). The Billboard Book of One-hit Wonders (2nd rev. ed.). Oakland: University of California Press. p. 221. ISBN 9780823076222. 
  6. Jump up ^ Conrad, Robert (January 10, 2014). "Albert Petrak - 1926 - 2014". Cleveland, Ohio: ideastream. Retrieved March 21, 2017. 

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Rondò Veneziano








https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rondo+veneziano+mix+youtube








Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, led by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal composer of all of the original Rondo Veneziano pieces. The unusual addition of modern instruments, more suitable for Jazz, combined with Reverberi's arrangements and original compositions, have resulted in lavish novel versions of classical works over the years. As a rule in their concert tours, the musicians, mostly women, add to the overall Baroque effect wearing Baroque-era attires and coiffures.


Evolution[edit]

The orchestra's first decade of albums included only entirely original compositions in the style of the baroque rondò, "a musical composition built on the alternation of a principal recurring theme and contrasting episodes".
In later years, in addition to many new and original albums continuing Gian Piero Reverberi's own unique Rondo style and tradition, Rondò Veneziano also brought their fusion of classical and contemporary instruments to a small number of albums dedicated to some of the great composers of the classical and baroque tradition.
In an interview, Maestro Reverberi said on the sound of Rondò Veneziano: "Rondò Veneziano's music is first of all positive. Also when it seems to be sad, it's never sad. It's always positive in a sense that at the end there's always a good future. So I think that also the reason of the success it that it's music where you don't have to think negative or to feel negative or if you feel negative it should be something that brings you to think positive."
A version of "La Serenissima" (Theme From Venice in Peril) was released in the UK as a single and reached number 58 in the UK Singles Chart in October 1983.[1] The track was also widely used at that time by BBC Television, as the theme tune to Hospital Watch. The track was later to feature on the globally successful Venice in Peril album which was released as part of an international campaign to save Venice from sinking into the lagoon.
In 1985, they provided the score for the movie Not Quite Jerusalem (known as Not Quite Paradise in the USA). This score was a reworking of many of the original pieces featured on the Venice in Peril and The Genius of Venice albums.
The orchestra has produced 70 albums in the 29 years since its founding in 1979.

Partial discography[edit]

All works composed by Gian Piero Reverberi, Ivano Pavesi and Laura Giordano:
Arranged and produced by Gian Piero Reverberi

DVD Productions[edit]

  • Rondo Veneziano Once upon a time (2010)

References[edit]

  1. Jump up ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 469. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 

External links[edit]

Sheet music[edit]


The National Anthem of the Byzantine Empire

  The Byzantine Anthem below can be seen as an "early" piece of  medieval music, and ofcourse here we have some "modern"...