Older music

[Severus Snape]

This might be the most unresponded to thread of all time.

Does anyone listen to Medieval or Renaissance music? If not I'd love to introduce any interested people to this widely unknown genre of really beautiful and deeply spiritual music. Though I'm not going to waste my time posting a bunch of youtube videos nobody will watch lol.

[scuba steve]

I'm listening to Bach right now, same time period as Renaissance. I'd be interested in 15-16th century type stuff if you want to post some links.

Notice how I said the same time period but not Renaissance.

[Severus Snape]

Bach is Baroque, but we're getting on the right track. I'm mostly talking about composers I doubt many here have heard of before.

Francesco Landini (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72382CEwDoM) for example. (the voice is a boy's by the way. Unbelievably beautiful)

He does other a Capella pieces with women choirs (polyphonic) that are absolutely haunting...

My favorite Baroque composed is Handel btw. I love his kind of depressing stuff. :P

[nick]

Bach is classed as baroque, not renaissance.

I love all forms of classical music, its good to know other people do too.

I'm particularly into choral music, so composers from the tudor period and the english renaissance are good for me. Purcell, Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, Weelkes.

But I love composers from most styles really, Handel & Bach from the baroque, then Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. Later Rossini, Verdi, Puccini. Elgar and Britten from the english 20th century, and a lot of french composers too.

[Severus Snape]

care to share some of your favorite renaissance pieces Nick?

[nick]

Handel is incredible, to me he is the shakespeare of music, a man that was writing for the ordinary people, but has left us supreme masterpieces. He has the ability within a few bars of music to change the mood from celebration to something much darker. The most obvious, but not the best, example would be "All we like sheep", from Messiah, which is really quite a jolly sort of chorus, but when it gets to "and the Lord hath laid on them" the mood changes in an instant, genius.

[deadpie]

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One think I've always loved is "Gregorian Chant" and anything close to that.

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The reason I didn't go off and say anything classical is because it's not all 'old' and it's still around. Plus, I've already made like two threads on classical music I like, so I'm lazy as fuck. And most of my favorite classical artists were around the 1900's.

Edit:

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[Severus Snape]

Deadpie, we could be best friends. When I was in Rome last summer I bought a 30 CD pack of Gregorian chants from the vatican. If you add me on MSN I'll send you my favorites.

[Severus Snape]

well, that and I'm just shamelessly desperate for friends.

[Magus]

One think I've always loved is "Gregorian Chant" and anything close to that.

HATERS GON HATE.
Fuck, you beat me to it! :(

[nick]

care to share some of your favorite renaissance pieces Nick?

Monteverdi Vespers:
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Palestrina Mass:
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Gabrieli O Magnum mysterium:
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[Fushigi]

i love it aswell :D

[Hastro]

I seen this "Older Music" thread and thought this would be 50s or 60s. Not really a big fan of this music tho, we used to have to sing old roman songs at school. O.o

[Severus Snape]

Roman songs like this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNLoti4sjlI)

This is a related but later form of secular medieval music. I think its really cool. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIXV2NhLb_0&feature=related)

@ everyone, here's my favorite Gregorian Chant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlr90NLDp-0) (remember Gregorian chant is for the most part monophonic, Baroque or Renaissance ecclesiastical music is where it gets polyphonic such a Handel's Hallelujah) I love boys' voices. Such a better timbre than women's voices for choral stuff like this. It used to be a blessing for a boy's voice to change late for this very reason. I prefer a choir to either be all men or all women. Like Hildegard von Bingen's works. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLpgj0s8o8s)