#michael praetorius

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Happy birthday Michael Praetorius

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Huh. You could play Childgrove on top of this and have it work. Maybe this is the original?

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Frohe Weihnachten, Merry Christmas from my girlfriend (mandolin) and me (guitar)!

Michael Praetorius - Es ist ein Ros' Entsprungen, 1607

Arranged for guitar and mandolin

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Michael Praetorius - Wikipedia

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

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Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) - Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir ·

Gli Scarlattisti · Capella Principale · Jochen Arnold

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Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) - Vater unser im Himmelreich

Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Conductor: Manfred Cordes

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The Gesualdo Six sing the beautiful German carol Es ist ein Ros entsprungen by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

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One of the best things about being in an early music ensemble and choir is that when the conductor says "I visited Martin Luther museum and saw the first printing of 'Ein Feste Burg', and it made my year", you understand the sentiment exactly.

Last Sunday we had our concert. It was a success, and by that I mean there were slightly more people in the audience than on stage. I managed not miss the conductor's cues. Thank goodness I was surrounded by two other altos who kept me from getting lost in the score. Michael Praetorius' "Nun Bitten Wir" (the concert theme was Renaissance and early Baroque music from Germany) was the most complex song we sang. And it is darn complicated, with every part singing its own melody that only occasionally converge. At one of the rehearsals where I was the only alto (it is a very small choir, maybe 8-9 people), and I got hopelessly lost. About halfway through it I just couldn't follow my part anymore.

Something like that, however, happened to the instrumentalists. At one point, a 5-person subset of the orchestra was playing their piece when one one of the musicians realized that, in her words, "they were all doing their own thing", and stopped the performance. Then they restarted and got through the whole piece successfully. Oh well, it's an amateur orchestra, and things happen.