Video Find of the Day
"The remarkable realism of Roycroft 'Living Tone' Records is due to the new 'Microphone' method of recording."
What? What did they do before microphones? Yell at the vinyl and hope for the best?
My favorite madrigal.
English Singers - The Silver Swan Gibbons
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Silver Swan + Dithyramb
Video Find of the Day
Best English song of the 17th Century!
The Silver Swan who, living, had no note,
When death approach'd, unlock'd her silent throat.
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, And sung no more:
"Farewell all joys, O death come close mine eyes.
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."
-- Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
You get all that, PLUS, an excerpt from Victor Paranjoti's Dravidian Dithyramb, a choral piece written to resemble a form of Hindu classical music. The composer described it as "… an expression of uninhibited festivity. An elusive but persistent pulse motivates the music, which is based on mere fragments of melody – driving onward faster and faster towards the final frenzied utterance."
Best English song of the 17th Century!
The Silver Swan who, living, had no note,
When death approach'd, unlock'd her silent throat.
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, And sung no more:
"Farewell all joys, O death come close mine eyes.
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."
-- Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
You get all that, PLUS, an excerpt from Victor Paranjoti's Dravidian Dithyramb, a choral piece written to resemble a form of Hindu classical music. The composer described it as "… an expression of uninhibited festivity. An elusive but persistent pulse motivates the music, which is based on mere fragments of melody – driving onward faster and faster towards the final frenzied utterance."
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