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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3
Sharing this again for anyone who could use a few seconds of peace and light today for whatever reason.
Some highlights include bangers such as:
D-Ju ms 33, 35
Senfl Missa L’Homme arme, miserere, salve Regina x2, gaude … sancta Maria intercede …
Isaac missae de beata virgine
De la rue salve Regina settings, nunca fue, de Septem Doloribus, de Sancto job, …
Pipelare Missa de Feria, fors seulement, Floruit egregius, Magnificat tertii toni, Missa L’Homme arme
Obrecht Missa o beate pater …, de nativitate Sancto Johannes
Rener salve regina, Missa de beata virgine
Anonymous de Septem Doloribus, anon salve Regina
Lupus Missa Carolus imperator
Bauldeweyn Missa inviolata
Daser Missa praeter rerum
Missa stabat mater
In the works:
Busnois: praeter rerum ordinem, gaude caelestis domina, Missa L’Homme and o crux lignum
Isaac: Missa comme femme
Anon Missa comme femme
Agricola Magnificat quarti toni
I realized I hadn’t touched this blog in years and years, so I’m going to make some postings and catch you up to speed, dear reader
I’ve been busy transcribing
I’ve been working on more masses and stuff from mostly Senfl to Busnois; I’ve focused on cantus firmus pieces for the virgin mary mostly. I’ve got a handful of unfinished transcriptions. I’ll make a list here later and link my CPDL page. I should make a playlist too
CPDL editions:
Category:Christopher Metz editions - ChoralWiki
La Reina de mi Vida, 1983
Louis Carlos Bernal
I realized I hadn’t touched this blog in years and years, so I’m going to make some postings and catch you up to speed, dear reader
I’ve been busy transcribing
I’ve been working on more masses and stuff from mostly Senfl to Busnois; I’ve focused on cantus firmus pieces for the virgin mary mostly. I’ve got a handful of unfinished transcriptions. I’ll make a list here later and link my CPDL page. I should make a playlist too
I realized I hadn’t touched this blog in years and years, so I’m going to make some postings and catch you up to speed, dear reader
I’ve been busy transcribing
The Story of Lucretia, 1496, Sandro Botticelli
Size: 180x84 cm Medium: panel, tempera
Illuminations from “The Gospels of Henry the Lion”, made for the Duke of Saxony and Bavaria and his wife Matilda, daughter of Henry II of England, 1175-1188
just for fun, because some people have the day off today and i need some sort of direction/ input, if anyone wants to read the concert notes i’m writing and let me know where i get too wordy, that would be awesome. shoot me a message with your email address and i’ll send some over. THANKS.
Book of Hours France, Tours, ca. 1500-1515
Source
Book of Hours France, Tours, ca. 1500-1515
Source
J.J. Fux: Kaiserrequiem - Vox Luminis & Scorpio Collectief - Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, deel II
Johann Joseph Fux - Kaiserrequiem Vox Luminis: Zsuzsi Tóth, Sara Jäggi, Elke Janssens, Maria Bernius - sopraan / soprano Barnabás Heygi, Jan Kullmann - alt / alto Olivier Berten, Robert Buckland - tenor Matthias Lutze, Lionel Meunier - bas / bass Scorpio Collectief: Veronika Skuplik, Stefano Rossi - viool / violin Johannes Frisch - altviool / tenor violin Josue Melendez, Frithjof Smith - cornetto, cornetto muto / cornett, cornett muto Simen van Mechelen, Claire McIntyre - trombone Carles Cristobal - fagot / bassoon Matthias Müller - violine Kris Verhelst - orgel / organ
Flemish Illumination: Book of Hours, Use . Early 16th century
hey there, some input needed
for the past few years i’ve been writing program notes for my friend’s semi-professional early music ensemble free of charge; they’d throw in a free ticket for every concert and we were good. today i met with the executive director about some very exciting things on the horizon, and part of our conversation ended with, “we need to know how much to pay you.” and i was ELATED, for a whole variety pack of reasons. long story short, i’d like for anyone relevant to let me know how much you’d charge for this sort of work. there are four concerts per season, and i typically write about ... 700 words or so per program, and starting this season, my writing will be less lecture-recital and more ... story line, so a little more creative. if you’re aware of this sort of thing, please let me know what you’d charge for this sort of work and i’d appreciate it tremendously!
bless you.
So, Bach cantatas ...
Bach wrote a ton of music that wasn’t ever really published. I think he might’ve had just like, his Clavierubung published in his lifetime, but everything else he wrote for his various patrons and courts and church gigs … from what I gather. Speaking of church gigs, Bach wrote so much music for the church, and he did so very piously. The music itself wasn’t particular pious; it was festive, and ornate and intricate and finely polished for some wonderful ensembles, but he didn’t make a lot of noise about himself.
When I was in college, I wanted to write a paper about the Protestant Work Ethic because I just thought Bach did THE MOST as a church composer. While he was indeed a prolific composer, Telemann was just so extra. Like Bach, Telemann wrote five cycles of church music- More than just church music though, Telemann also wrote more than 500 overtures and orchestra suites, 200 concertos, 40 operas, and more than 1,000 total pieces of church music- TOTALLY outshining Bach, and even Handel combined, both of whom wrote a huge amount of music.
Anyway, back to Bach. while in Leipzig in the 1720s, Bach wrote at least four, possibly five cycles of church cantatas while employed as Thomaskantor. I really love Bach’s second cycle of cantatas, starting in 1724, as it was planned to contain only chorale cantatas, music based on melodies of well-known Lutheran hymns. With these sorts of cantatas, a melody is typically presented and reworked length in every movement. The melody might be passed around back and forth between the voices, used as an accompaniment figure in the orchestra, sung in long notes as a cantus firmus melody, presented straightforward as a hymn, or any number of combinations of the aforementioned techniques. Although the music used in this music is distinctly Lutheran, the technique itself goes back hundreds of years and really took root in Latin-texted music for the Catholic church.
Anywhoooooo, a vast majority of Bach’s church cantatas is for a four-part choir (SATB) and features any number of soloists, and is accompanied by an orchestra varying from just the strings, to including woodwinds and brass and percussion as well. Because of these characteristics, writing about Bach’s church cantatas would get a bit exhausting if I were to specify every time a cantata was scored for four-part choir, soloists, and orchestra. To avoid this, I will only specify when a cantata calls for a different voicing, and when there’s a unique or specific orchestra or combination of instruments involved.
Also, when possible, I will try to discuss the origins of music found in Bach’s cantatas. As mentioned earlier, a large portion of Bach’s cantatas comes from older hymns and hymn melodies. As such, Bach was drawing from an enormous pool of music that came before him. Never the innovator, but definitely skilled at reworking preexisting music, Bach also borrowed heavily from himself in all sorts of directions. Some examples include a cantata Bach reworked into a keyboard concerto; a cantata Bach reworked into a mass fragment; and any number of cantatas, movements, and chants Bach reworked to form the sections of his Mass in B Minor.
I think I’ll end my Bach tirade here. I was working on a posting for tomorrow’s church cantatas, but I think I’ll call it a night soon. I’ll have to put together a posting ahead of time for next weekend, as I’ll be in the middle of the forest with the phoenix girls chorus and totally unable to blog from there.
sunday bach cantata postings are making a comeback
once upon a time, many moons ago, before i started grad school; fell in love with a guy; and lost interest in relevant postings, i used to put together the occasional posting dedicated to a church cantata by bach for whatever given sunday. i’m going to reinstate this starting tomorrow, so, that’s a thing that will be happening again. maybe i can branch out and include other some church music by bach’s contemporaries and other composers that came before him or immediately afterward.
i’ve put away all my silly manuscript projects now that school is starting back up again, but this would be something to help me write about a focused topic and decompress with some music that i’ve always really loved.