Suite: "Henry V" at the Globe Playhouse

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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."

"Experimenting" with Harpsichords

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Some examples of  "experimenting" with Harpsichords including rap music!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgMf37FxfdM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZTe-G4pZZ8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ-tKIxJlb4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPLLO18HYWQ

 

Early Music and New Music

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The Early Music Show
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0831cbp

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.


                                                                                                                                                             

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!

Art of Love: Music of Machaut

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbZ2kh9TIs

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

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]

Contents

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• 1 Instrumentation
• 2 In popular culture
  • 2.1 Film use
  • 2.2 Music
• 3 References
• 4 External links

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]

• A courante (#93) and "La Bourrée" (#32) from Terpsichore, in arrangements by David Munrow, are used for a ballet sequence danced by Louis XIII of France (Graham Armitage) in the 1971 film The Devils.^[3][4]

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. 

External links[edit]

• Michael Praetorius, Terpsichore: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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