I LOVE that you give so much time to the music. Not only are we able to hear it in excerpt but the visuals add to the appreciation. Also, if you had been my professor in college perhaps the knowledge I did gain would not have left me as quickly.
Thanks! I know when I was first getting into classical music that having a visual aid really helped me understand it better (even if I was still learning to read music). I wish I could take more time with each of the pieces!
When we sang Palestrina's Aeterna Christi munera, I knew I was hooked. When we sang Lassus's In monte Oliveti, I got hooked a second time. Reverent, worshipful music works on me like a drug, like endorphins.
could you do a video on just intonation and how playing classical works in their historic tunings changes the sound of the music? I once met someone who had a historically tuned piano, and when they played a piece by Palestrina it completely changed my perception of his works, and I'd love to learn more about it!
If any two composers are equals in greatness, it would be Lassus and Palestrina. For me, Palestrina's music is among the most transcendent ever written. How much of does one attribute to talent and how much to inspiration? On one hand, music is a form of "design," in that one must learn the techniques of composition, which during the 16th century were incredibly strict and exacting. On the other hand, some music has a quality of the sublime that can't be analyzed. My list of the greatest composers of ecclesiastical music of this era would include Tallis, Victoria, and Clemens non Papa in addition to Palestrina and Lassus.
9:50 Petrarch is NOT the author of Le Lagrime di San Pietro. The poems were written by Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568). Lassus set to music 20 Madrigali spirituali, not 21; the last one being a motet
God, you can't imagine the sigh of relief when you denounced that silly myth of Palestrina saving counterpunctal music. It's still so widely believed, unfortunately. Palestrina's music is amazing enough without lazy pseudo-historical sensationalism. Well-done video overall!
@herrickinman9303 Oh look, the orthography police sees everything. My own mother tongue uses a k-sound in this adjective, as the Latin ethymology indicates. Please forgive a non-native speaker his ignorance of the fact that your language has made its very own creative twist on the Latin word, being translated into French, made into an adjective and then being translated once more into English.
I love this video/these videos! I am a teacher of the history of art, and I'm wondering if you could help me with a simple exercise. In the world of art history, the art of the late 1500's and then 1600s, during the Counter-Reformation Baroque, we note that Catholic art changed in ways that made it more dramatic, in order to make the Catholic faith a more "energizing" thing. I thought that the Church had also sought to make the music of that time "more energizing" and dramatic. Might you be able to point me to two "quick" excerpts that might clearly show the "before and after" of these changes?
8:30 One pronounces the "s" in the word (town) "Mons" (but not in the word - racing city - "Le Mans"). Confusing, I know - don't blame me, I'm just the messenger. BTW, De Lassus also likely spoke Flemish.
Sadly, I can't enjoy Renaissance music as much as I enjoy Baroque music, it's just too much for me, it's like a really fancy glass of wine that I can't enjoy because it's way more fancy to what I'm used to. I hope that the more I listen to it, the more I open myself to it, it's quality is undenyalbe, God Bless you.
I love Bach, but he loved Palestrina. Suggest if you havent, that you listen to Missa Papae Marcelli. This work, Drains all stress from me from the very first notes. There are some other gems out there, Spem in Alium, Miserere, Parci Mihi.that are immediately accessible also.
