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Get Your Wig On, It's Baroque Week!
Hey musicbanterers and musicbanterins. This week is baroque week here on MB. What is baroque you say? Well, it's a style of classical music, but I'll let Wikipedia explain.
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Here's some Jean-Baptiste Lulle. |
I quite like this performance, it isn't too quick and light but it doesn't drag out parts of it either. |
I love Baroque music, and that was my favourite class in our series of mandatory music history classes.
First up, one of my all time favourite pieces of the period, Arcangelo Corelli's Trio Sonata Op. 3, No. 1 Now for some Baroque flute music. Georg Philip Telemann, Fantasia in d minor. I played this piece last year for my final flute exam, and did very well with it. It's a gorgeous piece written for a beautiful instrument. Nina Perlove, one of my favourite flutists on Youtube, is playing it: And here's a bunch of other pieces I really enjoy: Dietrich Buxtehude, Passacaglia in d minor J. S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in d minor Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata for Harpsichord, K. 455 J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 3, in c# minor, Well-Tempered Clavier book 1 Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons concertos: Spring (in E major): Oh my gosh, I could post forever in this topic! |
I like Vivaldi's music, especially the songs I played as a child taking Suzuki violin, such as this stately and sweet violin concerto, my favorite of all:
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in A minor Movement 1, beginning at 2:24, is wonderful and great fun to play. Movement 2 is loneliness...lovely and solemn although a little boring, I thought, when I was 12 years old. Movement 3 is energetic and engrossing to play, especially at 7:23 - 7:41 in the video--still one of my favorite violin passages. And here is a painting of the man himself! Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741): http://global.crossrhythms.co.uk/art...thumb_6499.jpg I also like A. Corelli's "La Folia" Violin Sonata in D Minor, as described here in Skaltezon's Baroque thread: http://www.musicbanter.com/classical...tml#post961580 Arcangelo Corelli "La Folia" Violin Sonata in D Minor, part I: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): http://infomusicworld.com/wp-content...elli-image.jpg |
Some Hispanic Baroque composers:
* Manuel de Zumaya (Mexico, 1678-1755). These are two examples of his choral music: * Tomás de Torrejón (Peru, 1644-1728). The Blood of the Rose (1701, first opera of the Americas) and Lamentation: * Juan Cabanilles (Spain, 1644-1712). These pieces are Tiento lleno of the 2nd tone and Corrente Italiana: * Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (Spain and Peru, 1626-?). Baroque guitar and harp: To be continued.... |
Wow this music is fantastic! One of the pieces reminds me of the theme song for the game in Encarta Encyclopedia 98.
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One of my favorite composers is Bach, and I have recordings of most of his works. Other than Bach I haven't really delved into the period too much. Some of my favorite Baroque pieces:
Passacaglia in G minor by Handel (transcribed to violin and viola by Johan Halvorsen) This is just a great video, I love the exchange between Perlman and Zukerman in the beginning. I don't know how they can be that calm before performing something like this. Sonata in C minor for violin and keyboard by Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor by Bach |
Bach is king! The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier) Books I & II has to be my favourite Bach work.
Zaqarbal, thanks for sharing that wonderful music!! |
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It sounds very Spanish with all that quick strumming and clapping, and amazingly modern, as if it had been composed yesterday. :) I also like his use of the violin and different time signatures, which make the song sound fresh and vivacious. Now I'm looking up more pieces by Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz, since I liked the two you posted. Here are some others I like: Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz - "Chacconas, Harp Consort" This song sounds so modern! Festive and happy and light, lovely and simple and peppy, this song would work as a contemporary one, I feel. From what I've read, this is one of his songs he composed to illustrate the dance forms common in the Spanish Baroque period: Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz - "Paradetas" I think this may be another one of his compositions intended for dancing since it is so energetic. I think I'd enjoy Spanish dancing very much! :) I love how this song picks up energy as it goes along right to the end. * * * * * Ribayaz' songs with their guitar strumming and simple chord changes remind me of one of my favorite modern songs, which has a Spanish flair, The Damned's cover of "Alone Again Or": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6RqcEuxY_Q |
^ I'm glad you like it. The Hispanic Baroque is very interesting. It has influences from popular music (from both sides of the Atlantic) and Italian composers (through the Kingdom of Naples). And musicians who lived or were born in the Americas found inspiration in the exuberant nature of the continent (all that colourful flora and fauna must be stunning to any sensitive person).
There are many notable composers from this period. These are three important names more: * Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (Spain and Mexico, c.1590–1664): * Gaspar Fernández (Guatemala and Mexico, 1566-1629): * And these are two 18th-century anonymous sonatas. From Chiquitos (nowadays in Bolivia) and Mexico, respectively: |
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