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Istampitta Ghaetta Promo for forthcoming publication
This is early days but this Istampitta Ghaetta is destined for my future publication Mediaeval JOLI (Just One Line Inspiration). I am very excited about this new project.
In it you will find a collection of mediaeval monophonic music together with some special guest contributions by musicians in the field exploring how they approach making these pieces come alive in performance. Istampitta Ghaetta comes from a mediaeval italian musical manuscript dating from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. It seems to have belonged to the Medici family, and contains among other works 15 textless instrumental pieces.
This will be one of the longest pieces in the book, and yet I believe it requires very little supplementation to make it enjoyable to listen to. The only thing that has been done in this midi arrangement is that the opening and closing parts (aperto and chiusso endings) that are a feature of the istampitta or estampie have been doubled in octaves with additional instruments, and percussion has been added.
The tonality and the rhythmic contrast between triplet and duple time note groupings seem particularly suggestive of an arabic influence. At this time, there are so many ways this might have come to bear on music collected in Florence.
Quite apart from the crusades, Europeans had connections and trade with the kingdom of Al Andalus (part of the Spanish peninsular before 1492) and large Islamic populations in Sicily and the Levant. Mediaeval instruments such as the Shawm, Lute, Rebec and Nakers were very close cousins of instruments used in the arabic world and almost certainly originated there.
In it you will find a collection of mediaeval monophonic music together with some special guest contributions by musicians in the field exploring how they approach making these pieces come alive in performance. Istampitta Ghaetta comes from a mediaeval italian musical manuscript dating from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century. It seems to have belonged to the Medici family, and contains among other works 15 textless instrumental pieces.
This will be one of the longest pieces in the book, and yet I believe it requires very little supplementation to make it enjoyable to listen to. The only thing that has been done in this midi arrangement is that the opening and closing parts (aperto and chiusso endings) that are a feature of the istampitta or estampie have been doubled in octaves with additional instruments, and percussion has been added.
The tonality and the rhythmic contrast between triplet and duple time note groupings seem particularly suggestive of an arabic influence. At this time, there are so many ways this might have come to bear on music collected in Florence.
Quite apart from the crusades, Europeans had connections and trade with the kingdom of Al Andalus (part of the Spanish peninsular before 1492) and large Islamic populations in Sicily and the Levant. Mediaeval instruments such as the Shawm, Lute, Rebec and Nakers were very close cousins of instruments used in the arabic world and almost certainly originated there.
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35 Two English Tunes at a German Court Packington's Pound, Wolsey's Wilde Praetorius Line 4
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This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Bass line 4 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
35 Two English Tunes at a German Court Packington's Pound, Wolsey's Wilde Praetorius Line 3
zhlédnutí 12Před 26 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Tenor line 3 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, b...
35. Two English Tunes at a German Court Packington's Pound, Wolsey's Wilde Praetorius Line 2
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This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Alto line 2 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
34 Ronde & Saltarello Tielman Susato Line 4
zhlédnutí 11Před 26 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Bass line 4 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
34 Ronde & Saltarello Tielman Susato Line 3
zhlédnutí 11Před 26 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Tenor line 3 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, b...
34 Ronde & Saltarello Tielman Susato Line 2
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This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Alto line 2 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
33 Margot, Labourez Les Vignes Jacques Arcadelt Line 4
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This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Bass line 4 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
33 Margot, Labourez Les Vignes Jacques Arcadelt Line 3
zhlédnutí 25Před 27 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Tenor line 3 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, b...
33 Margot, Labourez Les Vignes Jacques Arcadelt Line 2
zhlédnutí 148Před 27 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Alto line 2 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
33 Margot, Labourez Les Vignes Jacques Arcadelt Line 1
zhlédnutí 45Před 27 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Soprano line 1 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines,...
32 Bona Cat Jan de Lublin from Organ Tablature Line 4
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This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Bass line 4 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
32 Bona Cat Jan de Lublin from Organ Tablature Line 3
zhlédnutí 11Před 28 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Tenor line 3 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, b...
32 Bona Cat Jan de Lublin from Organ Tablature Line 2
zhlédnutí 3Před 28 dny
This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the Alto line 2 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines, bu...
31 Lachrimae Pavan John Dowland 1599 Line 5
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This video is a companion to the publication Chording to the Consort (available from Amazon and to download from Sheet Music Plus). It is designed to help players learn the harmony lines to the pieces, and to play them with confidence. You will hear the 2nd Bass line 5 on its own with chords and percussion, with the melody line added on repeats. The final repeat includes the other harmony lines...
Beutiful. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it!
So glad you enjoyed it!
what manuscript is this piece from?
Hi there, these both come from the St Andrews Manuscript, and I featured them in my publication "Harmony of the Middle Ages". Here are the notes that I wrote for that: 2 Cauda - Hac in Anni Janua St Andrews Manuscript, Wolfenbüttel These two Scottish pieces of polyphony come from the St Andrews Manuscript, which is now in Wolfenbuttel in Germany. Dr Bess Rhodes of St Andrews University describes how “In the spring of 1553 (Marcus )Wagner came to St Andrews where he was invited for a meal at the Cathedral Priory by Lord James Stewart, the illegitimate son of King James V who was commendator of the priory. While Lord James was preoccupied with entertaining another aristocratic guest, and a woman described as ‘Lady Venus’, Wagner slipped away to visit the Cathedral library to identify books of potential interest to (his patron) Flacius Illyricus. Wagner found several volumes, which he subsequently, with assistance of Lord James, removed to Germany - after having claimed to at least one suspicious member of the St Andrews community that they were nothing more than out-dated academic works on science and philosophy which were commonly to be found around universities.” The instrumental piece Cauda, latin for tail, should really be the end piece of an offertory, but works quite well joined to the motet Hac in Anni, which celebrates the turning of the New Year. "In this window of the year, in this January, we tend to the arduous relief of the virtues. The joys are mutual, by virtue of a mute deed; The foolish action of the reprobate is reprehensible In the new year, there is something new bringing new laws. Prohibition forbids the following taking away old age; Honesty proves the honest. Probity through giving evidence, Let corruption be crushed by crushing honesty. Circumcision of the flesh is void of mysteries, for was it not by the Son that a demonstration was given making us suitable, removing the necessity of broken faith at the door of this year."
@@alastairlodge6619 thanks, and do you know if there's some sort of pdf or an online version of this ms?
I think there is a link here: "Rescued from the Ruins: The Surviving Manuscripts of St Andrews Cathedral - Special Collections blog" special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2018/07/03/rescued-from-the-ruins-the-surviving-manuscripts-of-st-andrews-cathedral/
@@alastairlodge6619 thanks!
there is a possibility to have this song, on maximum quality mp3?
I am away from my main computer but I shall let you know when I can access that. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@alastairlodge6619 oh well: I will wait with much patience and happiness :) thanks for everything!
@@user-yb5vm6xu3t I Have it now. If you can send your email address to alastairlodge@gmail.com I will send it on.
Ensemble du Midi ;)))
I love this music.
So glad you enjoy it! Do consider subscribing of you would like loads more!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I, too, loved this album in the 1970s.... probably wore out the grooves.
Otimo video continua o bom trabalho comparça
Isso é tão gentil! Obrigado!
So true! Glad you enjoyed it!
Ein schönes stück .
It was a very special time for the performance of Early Music.
This post of yours means a great deal to me, a lover and performer of music from this era. I particularly love how this music was played in earlier decades, which I sometimes call "early, early music."
Thank you for this sweet but brief respite from reality.
That is so nice! Thank you!
A fascinating collection! Definitely get the score to fully appreciate the harmony
I am so glad you are enjoying it,. Thank you for your kind words.
A fantastic contribution to early harmony. Great to have the reference recordings too! Better yet this is a series. Well done!
Thank you so much! I am glad you are enjoying these, and I hope you get as much pleasure out of the others in the series!
Nice
Yes, happy days! Glad you enjoyed it.
It's wonderful to hear these excerpts from performances of 40 years ago. I was involved in the same kind thing then too, although in a different part of the world.
ive been looking for this for the past 20 years.
I am so glad it answers your quest! Thanks for letting us know!
How can I thank you! I have been looking for this recording ever since moving and leaving my old LP collection behind, in 1985. Wonderful!-----Thank you greatly!
Oh that is so nice to hear! I wish it were in better condition, but it did get quite a bit of needle time back in the day!
Olá! Obrigada por divulgar as composições do Claude Gervaise. Estudo no Conservatório de Tatuí, Brasil, e neste semestre estou tocando diversas músicas que vc postou aqui❤
That is really good to hear. Thank you!
so nice
So glad you enjoyed it!
How lovely! Your ensemble had very good intonation.
As I wasn't in the choir bit, I can very much agree with you! So glad you enjoyed it!
I was there, not physically there, but I was playing early instruments and singing medieval and renaissance music during the late 60s and 70s, so listening to your recordings is really nostalgia.
That is so nice to hear! It was a special time and special music!
BRAVI
You are very kind!
This truly beautiful!! You all should be so joyful/proud of this performance I know I will enjoy it many times to come, in the calm of the late evening!!
Thank you so much! It was a real experience to bring it back to life.
How can I get a copy of "Chording To The Consort?"
The easiest way is by download from either Sheet Music Direct or Sheet Music Plus who can be found from these links www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1339117/Product.aspx www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/chording-to-the-consort-melody-and-chords-for-35-renaissance-dance-consort-pieces-and-chansons-digital-sheet-music/22521260 This is for printing on your own printer, or alternatively using on a tablet, Ipad or the like. There are two versions. In one, the 35 tunes are set out as single line melodies with chords in the Fake book style, or else there is the two volume version (volume 1 has tunes 1-18, volume 2 has tunes 19-35) which has a full score with all the original harmony lines as well as the chords. I have hard copies of the predecessor volume Chording to the Dance Masters, and I should be organising printed versions of Chording to the Consort in due course. Thank you for this question. I should really have put this information in the blurb!
I would love to find out the source of this piece by such an excellent but little known (at least to me) composer.
Here is an excellent Wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carver_%28composer%29?wprov=sfla1 which tells of the Carver songbook .
Are percussion parts also in the Chording to the Consort books (as well as string instrument chords)? Thanks
No, I have not done percussion parts. The ones I have put to the videos have been mostly simple repeating patterns, like the few that Arbeau put in his Orchesographie dancing manual. I am sure that more exciting ways of doing the the percussion would be possible.
@@alastairlodge6619 Thanks for replying. I have Arbeau and a few other percussion resources, but thought it would have been a great add-on. Maybe in the future? And thanks for all your work on these books and videos!!
@@eileenenglishkaarsemaker1414 glad you are enjoying them!
Vor 30 Jahren hörte ich sowas auf einer CD, vor 40 Jahren auf ner Platte, heute auf dem i,pad ,im Bett, nur die Geräte wanderten sich ,die tonträger ,aber der Geschmack ist noch der vormmodernen Zeit verbunden ,,
Ob Leonardo da Vinci dieses Stück liebte ?
Wer das komponierte .hatte eine gute nacht .mit dem rattigsten kadi .seiner stadt .wenn ja war er ein glücklicher .schwuler .künstler oder eine frau .die knackies und schweinshaxen verschmähte .und viel von musik verstand .ö
Absolutely!
Errinnert an eine zeit .im paradies .wo sterne die nacht erhellten .und der mond 🌛 🌑 🌒 🌕 🌑
Scheint mir ungefahr richtig zu sein! 😂
The whole LP was charming. L'Oiseau Lyre issued a 50-CD anthology of their back catalog of Medieval and Renaissance music, and they left this one out. BIG MISTAKE!
Hard to believe. Still one of my favourite albums.
Hi. What is the name of this danse?
Hi, Attaignant didn't give this dance a name, and just calls it Basse Danse No 1 in his "Erste Tanzbook" . It is a lovely melody. The Basse Danse was quite an old dance form when he printed the collection in 1530, and is so called because feet were kept low to the ground unlike its companion the Salterello, which was more lively.
@@alastairlodge6619 Thank you for your explanation. How late would you say the basse dance was still danced?
@@danawinsor1380 Attaignant, who died in 1551 or 1552 was still publishing them for and eager public, but his successor Gervaise did not, nor did Praetorius who had about 400 dances in his Terpsichore of 1621, so I guess that dancing them had fallen out of fashion in around 1550
Fistulatores♥️
So wish I had seen them!
I have sung this - in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The rhythm at "Manentes iugiter" doesn't make much sense in the manuscript, but the King's Singers manage to make it work by slowing down! I wish they would rerelease this album in modern formats.
Nice...
You are very kind!
... and this is "Nieście chwałę mocarze" ;)
Thank you so much for that. Now corrected, I hope!
This is "Wsiadaj z dobrym sercem" ;)
Thank you so much for that. Now corrected, I hope!
This is a wonderful performance - so expressive. Long overdue for a CD release!
Bravi to a group of very young players during the earliest era of early music 😄
Glad you enjoyed it!
very nice, thanks! I’m growing to like the recordings from that period (period period recordings? ;) ) ever more...
instaBlaster...
Thank you! Thank you! I have the album, but no turntable.
So glad! Must get on and do the rest sometime soon!