This lovely piece of music from the 17th century, written by Michael Praetorius. Please enjoy!
This lovely piece of music from the 17th century, written by Michael Praetorius. Please enjoy!
Lovely playing, Jason.
I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. - Eric Morecambe
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Such a fun tune to play! Did you learn this from the Dix Bruce arrangement? Sounds lovely and thanks for sharing.
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Lovely, thanks for sharing! I might have to learn that one!
After Jason's excellent Volte, some more from Praetorius's Terpsichore. This one is labelled Ballet (actually one of a number of ballets in the collection). It has been arranged for guitar on several occasions. This is my own setting for two mandolins. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/em495tkvcp...olins.pdf?dl=0)
Not entirely sure why this is on this thread - also posting under Renaissance.
Very nice, but I am curious, like Richard Carver. My research is into the ways people categorize music: Why was this posted in European Folk, etc. rather than Classical, Orchestral etc.? Praetorius was a master composer, famous for choral and organ compositions as well as his Terpsichore. I am always interested in how and where music fits in people's visions of the musical world. Not criticizing, just curious.
Jim
Dr James S Imhoff
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Well Jim, if Jason pops his head in he can answer for himself. I would not have posted here had his post not already been here, but if I wanted a rationale it would be that most (perhaps all) of Terpsichore could be categorized as folk music, since it was a collection of current dance music arranged by Praetorius. The volta that was the original post is certainly a very well known and widely circulated piece, originally from Italy, I think, but to be found in the Dowland lute book, as well as in this arrangement by a German. As for this ballet, I don't know other versions, but I assume that is not Praetorius's own composition either.
More broadly, I have noticed that people with a background in modern traditional music (if you see what I mean) tend to gravitate to Renaissance and early Baroque music much more than to classical and later. Perhaps it's something to do with the period before the primacy of the composer.
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