#consort of musicke

[turangalila]

Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596)

Il settimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci novamento composto & dato in luce (Antonio Gardano, Venice, 1581)

– Giunto alla tomba

Giunto alla tomba, ove al suo spirto vivo / Dolorosa prigion' il ciel prescrisse: / Di color, di calor, di moto privo / Gia marmo in vista al marmo il viso affisse. / Al fin scorgando un lagrimoso rivo, / In un languido oimè proruppe, e disse: / O sasso amato tanto, amaro tanto, / Che dentro hai le mie fiamme, e fuor' il pianto! //

Non di morte sei tu, ma di vivaci / Ceneri albergo, ov' è nascosto amore, / Sento dal freddo tuo l'usate faci / Men dolci sì, ma non men cald' al core. / Deh' prendi questi piant' e questi baci, / Prendi, ch'io bagno di doglioso umore. / E dalli tu poich' io non posso, almeno, / All' amate reliquie, c'hai nel seno. // [Torquato Tasso]

Giaches De Wert – Il Settimo Libro De Madrigali. The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley. (1989, Virgin Classics Digital – VC 7 90763-2)

[tfblovesmusic]

MOOD.

*the English Renaissance madrigal edition*

🤧🤒

[lesser-known-composers]

Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) - O Care, Thou Wilt Despatch Me ·

Consort of Musicke · Anthony Rooley

[sivavakkiyar]

one classical album I really reccomend to everyone for the upcoming winter is Glenn Gould’s recording of Tudor music: Gibbons, Byrd, etc. It’s under a few names: one is Consorte Musick

almost everyone should hear Gould’s Goldberg, either version: they were hits for a reason. These recordings are imo as beautiful, and the music is comparatively obscure—-really worth it

[musicwithoutborders]

William Lawes, Consort for Harp, Bass Viol, Violin and Theorbo (Harp Consort) No. 1 in G Minor: I. Alman I The Passion of Musicke, 2021

[tallmadgeandtea]

Happy Holidays and Happy Christmas Eve! I tracked down as many Early American Christmas music albums as possible. Enjoy.

[usunezukoinezu]

Consort Music, Canons and Proportions II - Anonymous: A piece without title

A Store Housse of Treasure - John Baldwin’s Commonplace Book

Musicke & Mirth

[lydiannode]

Current Favorite Songs Meme

I was tagged by the lovely and talented @royaltyisshe64. Going for four categories because I’m that kind of person: popular, jazz, soundtrack/showtune, and classical.

POPULAR “Tell Me Why” - The Beatles “O Captain My Captain” - David Broza “I Give You Give Blind” - Crosby, Stills, and Nash “Sultans of Swing” - Dire Straits “The Art of Dying” - George Harrison “Night in the City” - Joni Mitchell “Game of Love” - Katrina and the Waves “Luckie” - Laura Nyro “Calico Skies” - Paul McCartney “‘39″ - Queen JAZZ “Plea for Peace” - The Afro-Semitic Experience “My Favorite Things” - Dave Brubeck “De-Lovely” - Ella Fitzgerald “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” - Glenn Miller Orchestra “What a Wonderful World” - Louis Armstrong “Popsicle Toes” - Michael Franks “So What” - Miles Davis “Pirate Jenny” - Nina Simone “Somebody Loves Me” - Oscar Peterson “Night for Crying” - Tim Weisberg SOUNDTRACK/SHOWTUNE “At The Ballet” - OBC, “A Chorus Line” “Livin’ It Up on Top” - OBC, “Hadestown” “Non Nobis Domine” - soundtrack from “Henry V” by Patrick Doyle “The Daily Grind” - soundtrack from “Jeeves and Wooster” by Anne Dudley ”More and More” - Dudu Fisher and Ruthie Henshall, “Kol Nidrei”” “Overture/Main Titles” - soundtrack from “Lawrence of Arabia” by Maurice Jarre “Main Title”  - soundtrack from “The Lion in Winter” by John Barry “People Will Say We’re In Love” - Maureen Lipman and Hugh Jackman, “Oklahoma” “My Man’s Gone Now” - Leontyne Price, “Porgy and Bess”

CLASSICAL “Concerto for Violin” - Samuel Barber/Joseph Silverstein and the Utah Symphony “Concerto for Violin and Cello” - Johannes Brahms/Nathan Milstein and Gregor Piatigorsky “I Bought Me a Cat” - Aaron Copland/William Warfield “Captaine Digorie Piper, His Galliard” - John Dowland/Consort of Musicke “Sonata for Cello” - Edward Elgar/Steven Isserliss “Sonata for Violin” - Cesar Franck/Augustin Hadelich “Romeo and Juliet” - Sergei Prokofiev/Berlin Philharmonic “The Rite of Spring” - Igor Stravinskky/Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic “Reconciliation” (from “Dona Nobis Pacem”) - Ralph Vaughan Williams/Brian Rayner Cook, Edith Wiens, and the London Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra “The Saga of Jenny” - Kurt Weill/Dawn Upshaw

[memoriae-lectoris]

To appreciate how radical his approach must have seemed, we should remind ourselves that the prevailing instrumental style of the first half of the seventeenth century had been consort music – that is, four- or five-strong ensembles playing gently soothing, mellifluous pieces, rather like an instrumental version of a choir, or what Shakespeare called ‘still musick.’

Indeed, consorts were generally made up of ‘choirs’ – soprano, alto, tenor and bass – of the same instrument, typically viols or recorders, or later the violin family. Occasionally these consorts were mixed, so that a lute might join in, or a recorder with some viols, but composers on the whole did not specify which instruments they expected to hear, or even whether the parts were vocal; they merely wrote generic consort music and whoever was around joined in. It was, in effect, a modular approach to music-making.

Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers. There was no point in writing an exciting solo for a violin if the chances were that the part was going to be played on, say, a shawm, a wind instrument of sweet tone but dangerously limited range.

[boyiwakwambvukuta]

I got the #lyrics for "Seventh Book of Madrigals (1619): Chiome D'oro" by Emma Kirkby feat. Consort Of Musicke, Judith Nelson & Anthony Rooley on Musixmatch https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Emma-Kirkby-feat-Consort-Of-Musicke-Judith-Nelson-Anthony-Rooley-2/Seventh-Book-of-Madrigals-1619-Chiome-d-oro?utm_source=application&utm_campaign=api&utm_medium=musixmatch-android%3A552993462

[dancingarchitect]

HEAVY ROTATION: THE RETURN

Long time no see, Tumblr... you ain’t dead yet I see.

Here’s some of what I’ve been listening to... 1. Glenn Gould’s Consort Of Musicke By William Byrde And Orlando Gibbons  > Pianist Ethan Iverson provides considered, enthusiastic commentary as well as embedded sheet music. “For a jazz musician like me, exploring early music has a familiar kind of atmosphere. The sources are incomplete, supported and thwarted by oral tradition, kept together out of love and duty. The titles are remarkably inconsistent, let alone the notes. When you get to ornamentation, all bets are off. Play it how you want to play it.” 

2. Eddie Henderson - Realization  Sample: “Scorpio-Libra” > For me, could there be a better title for an album? I’ve been researching some of the Mwandishi-era early 1970s Herbie Hancock as well for a future history presentation, and came across this astounding album. This is effectively Hancock’s septet minus trombonist Julian Priester but with Lenny White added to Billy Hart to make it a 2-drummer band. But with trumpeter (and physician!) Henderson as the leader, this often leans more toward a funkier take on skronky Bitches Brew jazz-rock...uh yeah sign me up.

3. Thelonious Monk - “Don’t Blame Me” > “So if I become a nuisance it's all your fault!”  > Monk on an older popular standard is always astonishing and revealing of his whole approach.

4. **LATE BREAKING** Free Nationals - “Apartment”

> … The nouveau smooth. > “Got all you need as a single man…”

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[turangalila]

Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596)

Il settimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci novamento composto & dato in luce (Antonio Gardano, Venice, 1581)

– In qual parte si ratto

In qual parte sì ratto i vanni muove / il vincitor augel del sommo Giove? / A farsi un nido altiero, / ove la prole sua nasca e s’impiumi. / Di che saranno al nido i nodi avinti? / d’odorosi giacinti. / Ma questo, quando e dove? / Or ora e nella destra al Re de’ fiumi. //

E per librarlo, si che non sia offeso / da vento iniquo e fiero, / di che gli porrà il peso? / Di bianca perla e schietta. / O Aquila, o Giacinti! O perla eletta! / O Gonzaghi, o Farnesi, o Margherita! / Qual s’aspetta da voi prole gradita. //

– Tirsi morir volea

Tirsi morir volea, / Gl'occhi mirando di colei ch'adora; / Quand'ella, che di lui non meno ardea, / Gli disse: "Ahimè, ben mio, / Deh, non morir ancora, / Che teco bramo di morir anch'io." //

Frenò Tirsi il desio, / Ch'ebbe di pur sua vit'allor finire; / Ma (E) sentea morte,in (e) non poter morire. / E mentr'il guardo suo fisso tenea / Ne' begl'occhi divini / E'l nettare amoroso indi bevea, //

La bella Ninfa sua, che già vicini / Sentea i messi d'Amore, / Disse, con occhi languidi e tremanti: / "Mori, cor mio, ch'io moro." / Cui rispose il Pastore: / "Ed io, mia vita, moro." //

Cosi moriro i fortunati amanti / Di morte si soave e si gradita, / Che per anco morir tornaro in vita.// [Giovanni Battista Guarini]

Giaches De Wert – Il Settimo Libro De Madrigali. The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley. (1989, Virgin Classics Digital – VC 7 90763-2)

[lesser-known-composers]

Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551 – 1601) - Cor mio, deh, non languire ·

The Consort of Musicke · Anthony Rooley

[encephalonfatigue]

music round-up 2020

bunkering down during the pandemic offered an opportunity for me to better familiarize myself with my public library’s online resources and the joys of Kropotkinist library socialism. and i discovered that the Mississauga Public Library provides access to Freegal, which I have been using a lot to stream music at home. i just wanted to take a moment to note down some of my favourite albums from this past year. 

i’ve also been dipping my toes a lot more into Tudor Church Music this year having encountered Sylvia Townsend Warner (a writer I’m very fascinated by) who was very interested in and knowledgeable about Tudor Church Music having studied under the Westminster organist Richard Terry. There’s a great paper on Warner’s engagement with Tudor Church Music that you can read online. Some of the recordings I’ve included of pieces (by Orlando Gibbons and Robert White e.g.) are mentioned in the paper on Warner, especially the Magnificat pieces which I’m sure she was very interested in, not only musically but also politically, as she was a communist for a good portion of her life.

i also discovered quite a bit of music from an event hosted by Independent Jewish Voices on anti-fascist klezmer music which was hosted by Aaron Lakoff who hosts a show called The Rebel Beat, which a lot of this year’s music came from. there was also a recent episode on Red Life Podcast with some interesting music. i’ve embedded a playlist of some of the more politically inclined music i’ve been listening to this year.

“Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes” by Leyla McCalla

“Reliever” and “Gospel First Nation” by William Prince

“The Sharecropper's Daughter” by Sa-Roc

“Un esta Navidad” by Carlos Mejia Godoy y Los de Palacaguina

“Pantayo” by Pantayo

“Gore” by Lous and the Yakuza

“Test Their Logik” by Test Their Logik

“Multiply” by Rebel Diaz x Tef Poe

“Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special” by Mariah Carey

Music not from 2020:

“The Ballad of the Runaway Girl” by Elisapie

“Not a Public Assembly” by Subhas

“A Little Letter” by Brivele

“Buena Vista Social Club Presents” Omara Portuondo

“Nara Leao 1978 (Ao Vivo)″ by Nara Leao

“It’s Dark Outside - Indroysn iz Finster” by Tsibele

“Classic Christmas” by Brynn Stanley

“Complete Jazz Series 1935-1936” by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson

“Byrd, Mathias, Taverner, Sheppard, Poulenc, Palestrina & Esteves | Choral Christmas Music” by Christ Church Cathedral Choir

“Händel: Messiah, HWV 56” by Leonard Bernstein

“Robert White Tudor Church Music” by The Tallis Scholars

“Orlando Gibbons Tudor Church Music” by The Choir of King’s College Cambridge

“Magnificat (Settings of the Magnificat Plainsong for Solo Organ)” by Stephen Farr (ends with Bach’s Magnificat)

“Arvo Part Beautus” by Tonu Kaljuste and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

“A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons ((Gould Remastered))” by Glenn Gould

“Urban Zulu” by Busi Mhlongo

“Global Citizen” by Jike Junyi

“I Ain’t Marching Anymore” by Phil Ochs

“La Época Dorada del Flamenco Angelillo” by Angelillo

“Hakollak Hagah” by Warda

“Works (1960-1970)” by Cornelius Cardew

“Alan Bush” Royal Scottish National Orchestra 

“The Power and the Glory” by Paul Robeson

“Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus” by Charles Mingus

“Return of the Boom Bap” by KRS-ONE

“RBG: revolutionary but gangsta” by dead prez

[musicwithoutborders]

Anthony Holborne / Guildhall Waits · Trevor Jones · Anthony Rooley /The Consort of Musicke, Dances.Heigh Ho Holiday I Pavans And Galliards,1980

[musiciswindofmysoul]

(*) müzik: purcell, “king arthur or the british worthy, act ııı, the frost scene”. cd: deller consort, the king’s musick, alfred deller, “acte ııı - scène 2 (début) / song of the cold”, purcell [king arthur [extraits]].