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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!
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!
Beautiful?, Exquisite? Amazing? I feel as if i am starting to discover music from ancient times and I am petrified every now and then with muscal pieces like this. My ears breath pure sound!! Infinite thanks!
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.
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.
Just wonderful. A sublime performance! I especially enjoy the way you used the bottom keys to shift the mood. I will listen to this performance for the rest of my life.
@@ElaineComparone Elaine, I didn't realise you replied. I don't know what to say except thank you always for sharing your wonderful talent and your beautiful instruments. I look forward to seeing more videos from you and hope to see more Bach pieces :-) Xx
@@forevers1238 Hi Glenn! I'm replying again! I appreciate your comments and request. My plan is to upload a couple of gorgeous Rameau pieces and then maybe to go back to our friend JSB. It takes me a while to do anything, so don't hold your breath!!!
Do not worry, we are all busy. What a planet we live on. I'm so glad I have the opportunity to communicate with you, Elaine! I really enjoy all your performances. I love the harpsichord. I wish you well and happy holidays!
Really, beautiful piece. I felt in love with it the first time I heard it played. You really wish it would go on forever. By the way, your are the second performer I see playing the harpsichord while standing.
QUE PUEDO DECIR? UN TECLADISTA ES UN TECLADISTA CON EL INSTRUMENTO QUE FUERE. PARA MI ELAINE ESTA EN LA CIMA DEL TALENTO Y EL VIRTUOSISMO. JUNTO A LOS FAMOSOS MEJORES PIANISTAS DE TODAS LAS EPOCAS . ESTA ALLI EN EL MISMO PEDESTAL NO SE SI ES LA MEJOR PERO ESTOY SEGURO QUE NO ES LA SEGUNDA MEJOR
Great job! I have known this piece for years and greatly enjoy the sense of lift to your performance. I, as probably you, have heard it performed almost like a dirge, nothing like anyone would actually want to dance to. After all, it's not "My Lady Carey's Dump."
WHAT CAN I SAY? A KEYBOARD PLAYER IS A KEYBOARD PLAYER WITH ANY INSTRUMENT. FOR ME ELAINE IS AT THE PEAK OF TALENT AND VIRTUOSISM. ALONG WITH THE FAMOUS BEST PIANISTS OF ALL TIMES. IT'S THERE ON THE SAME PEDESTAL I DON'T KNOW IF SHE S THE BEST BUT I'M SURE ISHE S NOT THE SECOND BEST
Gordon Ackerman Sir.I can't pretend to be an authority on this, simply because I am not myself in the market for an instrument, and have not been for some time. I remember playing a beautiful one by Kevin Frye (sp.?) of San Francisco some years ago at the Boston Early Music Festival. Karl Dudasch (I'm not sure I spelled his name right) also makes beautiful instruments, as does Hendrick Broekman ( to whom I would go if I had trouble with my Hubbard) of the Hubbard Harpsichord Shop. There may be others, but I can't think of them right now. When you're happy with your instruments, you tend not to shop-----at least, I don't!
Fantastically catchy! ^.^ (Can I describe baroque music as catchy? I don't know!) Actually, it'd be amazing if Elaine could put her music on spotify! The only version of this peice that's there sounds like it was played on a nintendo entertainment system! >.< Edit: turns out it's not baroque, but renaissance. The more you know...
madame. so we agree - no pedals, and stops, and a northern instrument. would you happen to know which ruckers originally built it? they were a sizable antwerp clan, I believe - grand-pa, the sons, the son-in-law and grand-son. like stradivarius, they took their secrets to the grave - I don't believe anyway today knows how the wood was treated. may I ask if you own that instrument? I greatly enjoy your performance.
Does anyone else feel or detect a Spanish/Moorish influence, with arabesques and a touch of Fandango, which emerged later? Could this have come from contact with any Spanish musicians? Were there any at the Tudor court before things turned sour with Catharine of Aragon around this time (1528)? I'm not at all sure, but that's the sonance, the sound field I get.
I detect closer affinity with French lute pieces deploying the simple, ostinato bass, e.g. 'Bransle de Village' by Robert Ballard and similar pieces by J.B. Besarde, A. Francisque, Claude Gervaise (an example by the latter arranged by Poulenc for his 'Suite Francaise'), et al. Other 'Dump' pieces for lute were composed by John Johnson and Anon. In similar form is a lute 'Downe' by the latter.
Philip II of Spain took Antonio de Cabezón with him, when he was trying to marry Mary Tudor. Extracted from Wikipedia: "Since the late 1540s Antonio and Juan both accompanied Felipe on his various trips, and visited Italy, the Netherlands, Germany (in 1548-49), and England (in 1554-56), where Antonio's variations may have influenced William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, who later took up the form."
This is the first i heard of you Elaine. In other words it's the first track i heard you play & it absolutely blew me away. I have always loved the sound of a harpsichord & after some Goggling or YouTubing i should of said it came up with a match & i am going through all of your work but i always start off with this as a great way to relax. I never get fed up of it. Someone else plays this track on a piano which is still good but it sounds more like a funeral march & i don't mean to sound mean of course but your version is much better though. Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rZKgXA804Lk.html Elaine have you ever been called upon to play at Royal Weddings? I bet you have. God Bless you Dear Lady. Ian W.
Madame, you seem not to be using pedals. surely an instrument this size (it must be one of the big "northern" instruments or a reproduction thereof) has pedals. unless you're using levers and stops.....
Sir, this instrument has no pedals. It's a replica of an 18th century Franco-Flemish instrument: a 1646 Ruckers harpsichord enlarged in 1780 by Pascal Taskin, It has hand stops with which to change registers.
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?
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!
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)
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.
@@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.
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 …
You may want to listen to "My Lady Carey's Dompe" at the organ Alain Leclere de Terraube (Fr.) Played By Frederic Munoz. Avery special sounding organ indeed. Here on You Tube.
Good question! I tried to look it up and only came up with the name Dompe as names for corporations or cities in various parts of the world. However in the description for this video, it says something about a dance, so I'm guessing it might be the name of a dance, perhaps named after a city or something.
@withindarkness i bet if we heard it being played back at the time, it would be a bit slower than this performance. this was played almost in the style of some gypsy song hehe~ this performance was interesting to hear, but it doesnt have that english sound to it in my opinion
Only now I recognize this is the woman of one of my favorite and cheap cds. The Trio Sonatas (J.S. Bach, originally for organ) in an arrangement for guitar and harpsichord. The most fantastic sounds come out of that harpsichord. And yes this a great swinging tune too!
@electrickithara Catherine of Aragon is been dumped, back to Spain with her? It had to be anonymous because the mockery came from her husband. The Tudor Bluebeard
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.
