Harpsichord Solo: My Lady Carey's Dompe
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2009
- One of the earliest surviving keyboard pieces we have, this dance ( a written-down improvisation by an unknown musician) comes from England during the time of King Henry VIII. For more info: www.harpsichord.org; www.lyrichord.com.
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I find myself watching this performance at least a few times a year for the past 10 years. Utterly magnificent and timeless.
I'm so glad you continue to enjoy it!!
likewise! I've been listening to this frequently since 2009! I even recorded it onto my old Sansa MP3 player that I wish I still had, and listened to it during my trip to Europe that year! It was the beginning of my love for Baroque and Renaissance music.
Same here.she is an utter master of her craft. Posture and all, I love her. Pure professional.
Same here. Thak you🙏
Hello Elaine. Your playing inspired me to play the keyboard again. I had a decade of lessons, but fell into a 3 year depression. You helped me out if that in a small way, and now I am playing again. Thank you for the help.
I’ve recently started getting back into playing the piano myself after approximately a 1-year gap.
This is the best version ive ever heard of this, Great job Elaine!!
Thank you so much for your comment!
Burzum!
This is a hauntingly lovely piece of music played at just the right tempo. My wife and I chose it for the exit music when we left the altar mid-ceremony to sign the wedding certificate in the registry of the church when we married 40 years ago.
Cool. The person who wrote this probably never would've thought it would still be played after all this time :)
Timeless and compelling, this feels relevant and fresh even 500 years after its composition and 15 years after this performance.
I play this hauntingly beautiful My Lady Carey's Dompe on my harpsichord but I use a buff stop on the lower eight for the left hand ostinato. I know that the composer is usually called "unknown" or anonymous, but some, including myself, think that the composer was Hugh Aston, and that it was composed prior to 1525. I play at about the same tempo but I play the first "f" natural and not sharped. I have heard Rafael Puyana, a student of the great Wanda Landowska, play this, and though I greatly admire him, his tempo is to fast for me. Oh well, enough of my ramblings. This dompe is a wonderful composition!
Beautiful! ❤ Not only does she play beautifully, but her ensemble makes her actually become the Harpsichord-in her red and black lace. :)
Her timing is perfect. I love it. Also her playing. What an art (and science!)
I'm grateful for your comment!!
Impossible for me to stop listening to it!!!
Brava!!!
To Climacofobia
Thank you!
The "right' tempo is what works! If it sounds contemporary, that's the highest praise for my performance. What good is music if it doesn't have life in the moment?
Wonderfully played by a fantastic artist. I'm arguing this should be a 21st Century chart hit.
This piece was featured in the BBC production of ‘Elizabeth R’ (1970) in the scene with the incarcerated Princess Elizabeth (c. 1555 at the orders of Queen Mary Tudor) performing it on her own ‘virginal’ square spinet in her (‘close-confin’d’) suite of Rooms in the Tower of London ‘to keep her from brooding’ - it has a distinctly haunting quality and some have opin’d it was written to honour the recent & untimely death of some noblewoman nam’d in the title, one ‘Ladie Carey’ with the word in the title ‘dompe’ meaning ‘dirge, lament’ …unfortunately we do not know the name of the composer of this haunting melodie …
Comparone is a virtuose!!! I can't imagine the effort required to reach this level of aptitude!
A few people were asking about the title:
“Dompe”: a 16th century english term to denote a mournful or plaintive melody or song; also a tune in general; sometimes
apparently used for a kind of dance (Oxford English Dictionary)
Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Act 4, scene 5: "O play me some merry dump to comfort me". A joke line, as "merry dump" is an oxymoron.
Music for when you are down in the dumps…
Ahhh I love these late medieval early rennaissance songs!
elaine! you have the best version of this on the net. keep up the awesome work
So beautiful I can't stop listening to it.
I fucking love this lady
Always Something uniquely splendored.
You are beauty Elaine.
Bravissima.
"My Lady Carey's dompe" - such an evocative title!
I LOVE THIS
Elaine, there is a direct copy of this recording on an album called “Music for Ann Boleyn” that is credited to Roberto Lorenz, not Elaine Comparone. The way you play this piece is quite distinct, so I recognized it immediately. It’s not just a recording of you playing this piece, it’s this specific recording of you playing this piece.
Twerking back in the 1500's.
Love the breakdowns
That's beautiful thank you for sharing that.
Thrilling! Many thanks.
Beautiful!
Magnificent - Such heart!
Beautiful!!! Awesome job!
Thank you for posting this!❤
Fabulous. Well played. Thank you!
This is one of my favorite pieces of the period! Thanks so much for posting this.
J'adore.... encore !
Merci!
Fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Your videos are wonderful.
Just got blown away “Audibly”
I love this...very peaceful
Beautifully done!
Very beautiful!!!!!!!
Fantastic!
Simply perfect. Beatifuly flawless
OMG is so amazing, I almost cried. Beautiful!!!
Wow, stellar!
I love this performance!
I love it! Thank You!
thank you for such wonderful playing
Stunning
Great performance - every one of your videos is inspiring!
A beautiful song and a brilliant performance. Well done!
Ms Camparone, Brava!!! Of all the versions available of this piece I like yours the best!! In fact I love it!!! Thank you SO much for recording this amazing piece and for your wonderful interpretation!!!! Tempo just right, ornamentation perfect, and the instrument upon which you play sounds beautiful!!! I'm a very happy camper!! :)))
oh this is lovely!!
I follow your chanel for a long time, Elaine, and you are an unique harpsichordist ;)
Wonderful perfomances
What a beautiful piece and such a great performance
Incredible! I love listening to the fast runs and intricate embellishments.. This song is such a delight to hear.
Stunning, piece. Extremely English in tone and sound.
But absolutely lovely, thank you dearly Elaine!
Beautiful piece, you are a gifted harpsichordist.
I love this!
Elaine, you are my gold standard for interpreting any new music. Thanks for your dedication
Wonderful!
The music suits so well with the instrument..
Great song, great performance
I would love to hear an extended version of this song. Absolutely beautiful melody.
fantastic! i fell in love with this piece when they played it in Elizabeth R.
You play this amazingly interestingly. Great piece. I have a harp arrangement that follows it almost. Thanks so much for posting!
Early rock n roll. Love it... X
Yeah, first steps to riffs and conquering ladies hearts
Shut up, I'm freaking tired of morons that call every piece of music they hear "Rock" or "metal" Enough is ENOUGH
Sanguil GeorArt
You rage is so metal!
@@chp763 I get it. You must admit early rock n roll has VERY similar structure to counterpoint in Baroque. Sorry to bring it up!!
My dear, I'd first seen this video when it had been out for one or two years. I must've been 18 at the time. I'm now 29 and keep returning. One of the most beautiful things I've heard.
What a beautiful comment! Thank you so much!!!
omg i love harpsichords god its awesome
You just made a beautiful, impressive rendering. I read somewhere about a possible attribution of My Lady Carey's Dompe to an italian monk, Dionisio Memmo who left Venice and moved to England, 1516, for Henry the VIIII court.
This song was written for King Henry's courtier and was played at William Carey's funeral. Lady Carey refers to Williams wife, Henry VIII's mistress. Who was also the sister of Henry's second wife.
The dompe is a sad song, but I never heard that story. If we know for whom the piece was composed, why do we not know who wrote it? Perhaps Henry himself??
Elaine Comparone Probably not Henry. He was a competent musician but popular history has vastly overstated his talents as a composer.
I also have to correct the notion that the song was played at William Carey's funeral. Sadly, Carey died during a massive epidemic of a disease known to history as sweating sickness. The nature of the epidemic meant that virtually no one who died during it received a funeral; bodies were often buried within hours of death. It's more likely - but we can never know - that this song was written to mock Mary Carey's sister, Anne Boleyn.
Hasn't the piece been attributed to Hugh Aston?
@@ChrisLawton66 It has not
Oh man , this is straight 🔥🔥
We need a longer version
So great! Awesome, thank you!
My pleasure! Glad you are enjoying it!!
This video is one of the first versions of My Lady Carey's Dompe I've ever heard back in 2009. It set me on the course to explore various Renaissance and Baroque compositions. There are many metal versions of various Renaissance and Baroque pieces (Handel's Passacaglia being one of the more prominent pieces) with heavily distorted guitars and such. However, I can't find a single metal version of My Lady Carey's Dompe, and I think it's up to me to do it!?!?! I haven't played guitar in nearly 20 years and can't read music!, but I'm determined to come up with a metal version of this masterpiece that I consider very metal sounding!
What a great idea!! I think that treatment will work well. Be sure to let me know once you complete your project.
Did you ever complete your project?
So beautiful!! Thank you for playing this for us
It's my pleasure to share it with you!!
elaine.. u play beautifully as usual... this piece has an interesting style ive never heard before... well done
Beautiful 😍
Thank you!!
hypnotic, I Play It Over and Over
I'm glad it appeals to you enough to justify multiple repetitions. "Hypnotic" is a great description!
This is just astounding! Bravo! Beautifully played.
It's a wonderful piece and most enjoyable to play.
Such a banger
You have such a nice show, I love to hear you play the harpsichord, music like this makes my day, please keep up the good work !!
Thanks for your friendly comment!
So nice, thanks for your explication at beginning Elaine. Greetings!!!
She commands this piece. Well done! Moving performance 😢
beautiful, wonderful...the best video of all ....my lady careys domp ....congratulation from Brasil....
Love from Kazakhstan to you and your channel!!
Thank you so much! I'm happy my video reached such an exotic place!
*EXCELENTE* !!!
Hermosos sonidos!!! 😍😍
Brings back memories.
Y daughter taught herself t play this from this
As a Beatlemaniac, I remember being mysteriously entranced by hearing My Lady Carey's Dompe. Still mystified and I see I've heard and liked this before. Wonderful performance!
What is the only Beatles song using harpsichord? ( Beatlemaniac )
Excellent music, excellent musician 5/5
So modern...beautiful
Knowing our Henry he would probably claim this as his own!!
Haha why not lol hes the king :)
@@gothips King and CAD!!
@@NiallMS1 i dont know him personally but if i met him someday i m going call him to account for AnneBoleyn.
@@gothips You do just that, and give him a black eye. Poor Anne, falsely accused and executed! Just went to show that Henry was totally devoid of human compassion!
@@NiallMS1 anneboleyn is my only true love on this existance.
Seductive! 💐
Very beautiful =)
There is nothing new under sun ...proven again! Thanks for this!
Bravo très bien joué et très belle musique !!
The harpsichord is such a terrific instrument with a gorgeous, magical sound; a sound I often prefer to that of the piano; especially when the musician is as masterful as this one.
Thanks for your kind words!
Can only agree about this obsessive earworm of a piece, attributed by some to Hugh Aston who was an advanced composer for his period - and whose Hornpipe uses similar ostinati, though that proves less than certain densities of rhythms common to both pieces - or at least to my ears. But this Dompe remains inordinate and alone. I've not met anyone's to match Elaine Comparone for right feel of tempi where the work breathes but remains obsessively driven, and delivers its crunchy chords so precisely, and with so dance-like an air, smiling at grief. It's the benchmark recording I've heard so far on CZcams. Rafael Puyana takes this a whole minute faster: exhilarating though it loses something. His 1973 recording sounds as if from a 1960s Tudor film soundtrack (the music does too, astonishing for 1528, seems more a modern evocation of that period), but Puyana was a great pioneer, always worth hearing. Some, on piano and lute, can take up to six minutes - instrument and aesthetic dragging this to another composition altogether. This 2007 recording of Comparone's is the one I keep returning to.
I do appreciative your perceptive comments! I"m not sure what the nationalities of the musicians were that Henry gathered at his court, but certainly at later times, the origins of the court musicians varied. Think of Lully (who was actually Italian) becoming such a force in the French court! John Dowland traveled all over Europe. And later, Johann Christian Bach ended up at the English court, so I guess the musicians went where they could get work---not much different from any other time in history! Perhaps you've identified the time exactly----your instinct seems reliable. And perhaps visiting Spanish musicians shared this piece with the British. It's fun to conjecture!
By the way, I've heard faster versions of this piece also, but I kept going back to this tempo. It's not about virtuosity certainly, but something else, something irresistible, something ineffable.
This woman is great
This sounds surprisingly modern in some parts, almost bordering on jazz at certain points. It's interesting how cyclical culture can prove.
Not so different from the Doors keyboard playing is it?
@@hampton4454 I only recently got around to listening to all of The Doors' (main) studio albums and, come to think of it, I did notice the harpsichord/harpsichord-like keyboards in three of their later albums (Waiting for the Sun through Morrison Hotel). In particular, I'm thinking of "Wintertime Love," "The Soft Parade," and "Waiting for the Sun." Given that they did a rendition of Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, I wonder what Ray would have done with this.
"runescape music" is, I believe, the historically accurate definition of this style
nice tempo! works so well when you can dance to it with some heft
I have loved this piece of music since I was 8 and never did find out what it was, 1972 in a council house in the north of England we watched Elizabeth R And she played this piece. It's been in my head ever since, since that day I loved the harpsichord, such a beautiful warm sound unique.
You have excellent and refined taste!
The incomparable Glenda Jackson