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Though this piece is technically from the 18th century, Mexican baroque composer Manuel de Sumaya deliberately chose an antiquated style for his setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. And though Sumaya was notable as a master of the newer Baroque style in the "New World," this piece shows off his considerable skill with Renaissance counterpoint. Also, it's just beautiful.

Hieremiae Prophetae Lamentationes, Manuel de Sumaya Performed by Chanticleer

Next week, I promise to choose something perhaps more appropriate to the "classical" moniker we've given to Thursdays.  But for now, I hope you'll enjoy this delicious bit of anachronism.  - Melinda Beasi

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Hello, dear Music-Fans!

Today, instead of Film Music, I will share something very heart-touching. If I listen to this amazing piece, it brings tears to my eyes...I think it's a music, from an another dimension, where is just peace and love! What can be more beautiful?... I can't describe with words, it's just pure, appealing music, and I'm sure that you will enjoy. All right, so in conclusion, Today on theNOB.tk, we listen choral music from Eric Whitacre!  //Dedicated to all my Dear Followers// :

Eric WHITACRE - The Seal Lullaby

Eric Whitacre (born January 2, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American composer and conductor, known for his choral, orchestral and wind ensemble music. He is also known for his "Virtual Choir" projects, bringing individual voices from around the globe together into an online choir.

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So today on the 20th Century, I will share some Alban Berg with his piano Sonata in one movement. 

"The sonata is not in the typical classical form of three or four contrasting movements, but consists of a single movement centered in the key of B minor. Berg originally intended for the Sonata to be a more traditional multi-movement work, the opening movement followed by a slow movement and a finale. However, for a long period he lacked any ideas for these other movements. Berg turned to Schoenberg, who commented that the lack of inspiration meant that '[Berg] ... had said all there was to say'. Following Schoenberg's advice, Berg decided to publish the finished movement and let it stand by itself. Although the piece has the nominal key of B minor, Berg makes frequent use of chromaticism, whole-tone scales, and wandering key centers, giving the tonality a very unstable feel, which only resolves in the final few bars. The structure of the piece is traditional sonata form, with an exposition, development and recapitulation; however, the composition also relies heavily on Arnold Schoenberg's idea of "developing variation", a method to ensure the unity of a piece of music by deriving all aspects of a composition from a single idea. In this case, much of the composition can be traced back to the two opening gestures."

Juan Manuel OROZCO

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Hello everyone,

Today I want to share with you a little more of the baroque music. I decides I would post some of Georg Telemann with this trumpet concert. In that time he was one of the composers that introduced the term “concerto grosso” even though he didn’t know he was making a new music form.

I find Telemann very rich in his mixtures of styles during his composings. I like that he never followed a trend even though it was very important to be classified in that matter.

So let’s enjoy Georg Philipp Telemann with “Trumpet Concerto in D major”

Juan Manuel OROZCO

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There are very few contemporary composers who make me as consistently happy as Zoltán Kodály. Though he wasn't as prolific as some, there's a haunting beauty in his work that lures me in every time. These rather foreboding variations on a Hungarian folk song have been a favorite of mine for many years. 

Peacock Variations, Zoltán Kodály Hungarian State Orchestra Antal Doráti, conductor

Enjoy!  - Melinda Beasi

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Though it may begin to seem that my musical moods are always based on weather, I promise that is not the case!  However, I will admit that my choice today is undeniably influenced by the rainy, thunder-stormy morning we're having here in western Massachusetts. On a morning like this, there's nothing I want to listen to more than Mozart's Mass in C minor, specifically the opening "Kyrie." There is a painful darkness in this choral sections of this piece that are only made more poignant by the solo soprano's fervent plea, "Christ, have mercy!"

"Kyrie" from the Great Mass in C minor, W.A. Mozart Monteverdi Choir & the English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner, conducting

On a dark, stormy morning, even a non-believer like me can appreciate such a plea. I hope you'll enjoy, whatever your weather may be! - Melinda Beasi

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Hey, Music-Fans! I'm glad to see, that everything is okay here! Well, now I'm in my final year at the University so I need to focus a little bit more, on my studies. (This means, that I will return on every Wednesday with Film Music). In march or april will be my state-exam, when I will conduct the Requiem of John Rutter and also I need to make a musicological research to achieve my thesis. I have a very good mentor and I hope that everything will be fine! By the way...I have also two mentors here: Melinda BEASI and Juan Manuel OROZCO. They are doing great things and I really appreciate their DAILY contribution to theNOB.

So, today, I want to make a special dedication to Melinda and Juan, with my favorite Film-Music piece:

Ennio MORRICONE - The Mission - River

Ennio Morricone (November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works. His career includes a wide range of composition genres, making him one of the world's most versatile, prolific and influential film composers of all time. Morricone's music has been used in more than 60 award-winning films.

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So to start my 20th Century contribution, I decided I would post some of the great Igor Stravinsky given all the good well known music he has. 

I start with "The Firebird Suite" because I just find it really intriguing. Let's sit back and enjoy this magnificence. 

Juan Manuel Orozco