Showing posts with label guillaume de machaut. Show all posts
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Thursday, 31 January 2019

Noel Akchote and his Guitar for Early Music

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The following is an acoustic version by Noel Akchote of the Messe de Nostre Dame No 12 Ite Missa Est. It appears that a "guitar" is used to translate a piece of Medieval choral work by Guillaume de Machaut into something instrumental....RS




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKELMSigvQ&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0tLP5G6Y_ekQAgNRY5lG4DWtfopVDbhHOfkpVshmhUYHPFN6CSMjMkoIU



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Apart from the above example he has done more using the guitar for a large number of Early Music pieces....


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Noel+Akchote+early+music





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"...