0:00:00 Passameze 0:01:25 Galliarde 0:03:39 La Bouree 0:05:39 Bransle de la Torche 0:07:43 Bransle Simple 0:09:25 Bransle Gay 0:10:56 Bransle Double 0:12:14 Bransle de Villages 0:16:23 Philou 0:19:25 Ballet des Sorciers 0:20:05 Ballet des Princesses 0:22:46 Ballet / Ballet des Bacchanales / Ballet des Matelotz 0:24:40 Ballet des Coqs 0:26:10 Bransle de la Torche 0:27:34 Pavane de Spaigne 0:31:32 Spagnoletta 0:33:25 Passameze pour les Cornetz 0:35:17 Courante 0:37:39 Courante 0:39:14 Courant de Bataglia 0:40:41 La Sarabande 0:42:29 Volte du Tambour 0:43:15 Volte 0:47:37 Voltes
In 2002 I was very sick and I needed treatment in an hospital in the south of Germany. The doctor who treated me had the surnmae Praetorius. I asked him if he was an descendant of the famous composer Michael Praetorius. He said yes and was very pleased, that I knew about Michael Praetorius. We talked about the music of his ancestor and I forgot about the pain I was suffering before. Never forget about this beautiful encounter.
Wow das ist wirklich unglaublich. Vielleicht hatte oder hat er, genauso wie sein talentierter Vorfahre, ebenfalls noch Musik im Blut. Wie toll muss es sein, die Terpsichore zu hören und zu wissen, dass es einst der eigenen frühe Vorfahre selbst komponierte. Eine tolle Geschichte!☺
@@nussnager2155 Mir lief es wirklich kalt den Rücken runter, als ich hörte, dass der Arzt wirklich ein direkter Nachfahre von Michael Praetorius war. Ich bin wirklich ein großer Liebhaber dieser Alten Musik. Und einen Nachfahren des großen Michael Praetorius kennen zu lernen, der mir noch dazu medizinische Hilfe angedeien ließ, hat mich nachhaltig bewegt. Also falls jemand einem Urologen aus Süddeutschland mit dem Namen Praetorius begegnetz: er ist ein Nachfahre des Komponisten!
@@nussnager2155 Actually most of Praetorius descendants are not called "Praetorius" because 50% of them were women. He is just into an uninterrupted MALE descendance of Praetorius, a very thin line. So you might be a descendant of Praetorius as well
One of the best records in early music history, this unsurpassed version was an unforgettable milestone. Brings back so many memories and long lost youthful sensations.
ПОКОРНЕЙШЕ ВАМ БЛАГОДАРЮ! НАКОНЕЦ-ТО, НАШЁЛ ИМЕННО ТАКОЙ СТИЛЬ КЛАССИКИ, КОТОРЫЙ НРАВИТСЯ! ■ КЛАССИКА - ЭТО ЛУЧШЕЕ ЛЕКАРСТВО ОТ ВСЕХ БОЛЕЗНЕЙ И ШЛЯПОВИРУСОВ!!! ■
Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of the sleeping watchmen !
I like it so much. I played in a youth orchester from 1997 till 2004 on the trombone. My favourite composer was always Michael Praetorius. It was the greatest man on earth! RIP!
@@reneg.1620 I had the chance to dance some of these dances with the french group "Danses et danceries" in the "châteaux de la Loire" during the season 1982-83 in the region of Blois (France)
To continue to enjoy the music without hating myself for it, I have to keep telling myself that credit should go to the performing musicians, not to Phillip Pickett (look him up in Wikipedia if you don't know why he's persona non grata - he's a serial sexual abuser. Convicted and sentenced and imprisoned. He was assaulting members of the ensemble. They played well in spite of him, not because of him) but yes. This is definitely the best recording of Dances from Terpsichore, by far.
@@SerafinDrake I must say, I had absolutely no idea about that until I read your comment tonight. I'm disgusted. I have removed his name from the video description, as I believe the musicians alone should be credited, rather than him.
@@SerafinDrake Not just members of the ensemble, but also young women at the Guildhall School of Music, as well as private students dating back to the 1970's. He's been a life-long predator, and was unrepentant at his trial.
@@RenaissanceEarCandy I applaud your decision. He was a real creep. I don't want to go into private detail, but he caused a lot of trauma for a lot of us. There were far better people to play under. Even playing under John Elliot Gardener was preferable. Playing under Christopher Hogwood and Trevor Pinnock was a dream, and more a collaboration than a subjugation, just aa it was reported to be in the Baroque period. The same was true of David Monroe before he took his life. I wonder what might have been if he had have got treatment for his far to obvious depression. Many of us owe our careers to him, whereas many lost their careers, and even their lives to Pickett (three people that I know of committed suicide after he raped them, and the people who could have done something about it either did nothing, or reprimanded the victims for accusing such a popular person in the early music community). Mr. Pickett deserves every microsecond of his sentence, and should never be allowed back to his former prominence and glory. As he continues to be unrepentant, even boasting in prison about his exploits, he will reoffend, and I dread the day he is released. He is a violent serial rapist/sexual offender and by his own admission he is not going to change.
The Susato cd is also up on my channel but it hasn't got the album cover as the picture. I used a different picture with each piece of music. A picture that I thought matched each piece.
Listen to this almost every day during work. This is still the best version of the dances I have found to date. Many thanks for uploading, this video has brought me much joy and got me through some tough days!
Renaissance age d'or de l'humanité, j'entend déjà les bibliothèques à deux pattes dire; "et le peuple?" OUI! ET EN MACRONIE ET LE RESTE DU MONDE, ET LE PEUPLE? avec les moyens que nous avons, la misère est révoltante./
Praetorius působil i v Čehách. Představa, že při jeho hudbě tančili na banketech páni Smiřický, Harant, Velen ze Žerotína, mladý Anhalt atd., je fascinující...
Vzácný čech, Kryštof Harant, by si býval jistě mnohokrát zatančil a zanechal nám také více kompozicí…to pomyšlení, že díky “Bílé Hoře” musel skončit na popravišti je nesnesitelné.
@@blancakamp3138 politics always comes first, that is the most important awakening for every human being, knowledge about how structure works and how violence and war are its tools. Some of these renaissance dancers were lords who are responsible for early modern mass carnages, some were evil merchants or peasants who did their share of crime in peace.
@@blancakamp3138 Děkuji za zpětnou vazbu. Domnívám se, že je dobře, že pan Harant nepatřil k těm packalům před Prahou L.P. 1620. Nechť Nejvyšší sudí i všechny světlé duše bojovníků odpustí amatérskému dějepravci a šermířskému učni! Myslím si, že na té Bílé Hoře si nejlépe vedli a svou soldátskou čest před jinými zachovali: jezdci propůjčení císaři králem polským (lisovčíci) a rejtaři/arkebuzíři regimentu ml. pána z Anhaltu; pak stavovská artilerie, složená vesměs z českých dělostřelců - tehdy stále pvažovaných za potomky husitských "puškařů".
The music is beautiful, and the musicians do an excellent job, but Pickett is a criminal and deserves every second of the 11 years he was sentenced to. I wish the remainder of the musicians continued success in their careers, as they are all quite talented.
Yes, that's why I don't mention him in titles or descriptions. I did put his name in a title of a video which was actually superimposed over the video itself (it was the New London Consort's Dansereye), but I did that before I knew about Pickett's crimes. I of course now deeply regret doing so and it unfortunately cannot be removed.
@@RenaissanceEarCandy I deeply appreciate that you have taken as much action as you have been able to. I'm sure that if others who have been on the wrong side of him were to see this, they would also appreciate it.
Il faut évoluer avec son temps sans pourtant renier le passé ! Chaque époque recèle de qualités ! Aujourd'hui j'aime autant la Deep House, le rock, le reggae, le R&B, le blues, le disco que la musique médiévale, baroque ou renaissance pourvu que cette musique m'apporte émotion et joie ! La musique restant à jamais ce que l'homme ait inventé de meilleur !
Pour Philippe, Charlie 47 :j'a, précisé , pas toujours, et en effet, il ya d'excellentes musiqes populaires actuelles par exemple, j'apprécie beaucoup la jeune génération de chanteuses country us actuelle, des chanteuses françaises ou quebequois es... Des noms ? Reina del cid, Ingrid Leclerc ou Pomme pour la France...
What did Praetorius start with? Were the pieces already harmonized or did he have just the melodies--I imagine the dancing master piping as his students practiced. Given the variety of orchestrations that have been recorded, I infer that Praetorius did little to specify instruments for the different parts.
Passameze shows lords who dance with their swords drawn out and their ladies are also dancing but at a distance. They are all on a military campaign, rich folks running this show from ancient times brought their entourage, their court musicians, while the big oak tree is littered with hanged deserters, enemies and peasants. This music is not only a counterpoint to the violence of the 16th century but it is its integral part - whether lords or rich merchants and craftsmen from the middle class, whether peasants during harvest or in the closing autumn to celebrate hard work - they are all dancing, they shall all feel, in one way or another, the brunt of violence, of war, of brutality, of dirtiness and diseases, of the struggle to survive, they shall be moved by irrational passion to live, and if they survive through their infancy they shall either accept the realisation of what existence really is, or sink into depression and illusions, until mercenary veterans kill those gentle souls unaccustomed to the ways of life. Mercenary sword, dagger, pike, arquebuse, musket, pistol, halberd, zweihander or under hooves of the specially bred and royal stables trained warhorses who do not shy even from the wall of pikes. Gentle sensitive souls or their harder town or village neighbors - they can all perish during looting, pillaging, raping and massacring. But amidst life's brutish brevity they would strive to live it to the fullest, by working, by dancing, by making love and fighting like in a frenzy. Along with their dethatched cynical lords who spend human lives in droves to defend or enlarge their realms. This passameze is just a prelude to the drama of life enfolding in each of these masterly performed miniatures. 16th century, with all of its contradictions of the heights of human spirit to the almost uninterrupted century and a half of more brutal carnage than in previous centuries, clearly showed still present opposing forces of advancement in all fields, including the means for war, the tools for killing. Bransle de Villages shows in a film montage sequence Dutch/Flemish peasants during sunny summer - collectively working in the fields, drinking, feasting, resting, smiling, dancing, making love, preparing for the winter... And all that can be erased in a moment. But during these four minutes of music celebrating life, work and love peasant's melancholy nostalgia kicks in while during a long war, impoverished in a big walled Flemish city, remembers how 10 years ago he had a family and a property, while now, with his complete left hand lost during the destruction of the village, he has nothing and has to beg to survive. This music and this performance are more than they might appear to be. Whispering of the lords, while musicians are playing, can determine who will survive and who will perish. And that doesn't mean only political intrigues aimed at rich and powerful individuals but in secrecy expressed plans determining the fate of many. Lords have no time or inclination to give to the music more than it "deserves." They are in the ruthless primordial tundra-like killing game. Then Machiavelli, whispering to the lord of Milan, suddenly turns towards you, presses his finger on his lips and points out to the musicians. "Enjoy your music."
@@richardcleveland8549 dogmatic in a sense of presented pictures being truthful to the music? I appreciate your input and I am glad Renaissance Ear-Candy liked my comment.
Da koennt ihr die schlager gut und gerne selber hören ,ich hab keine zeit für der artige lalle ,denn ich höre lieber renaissance und barock an ,ballermann mag ich auch nicht ,
0:00:00 Passameze
0:01:25 Galliarde
0:03:39 La Bouree
0:05:39 Bransle de la Torche
0:07:43 Bransle Simple
0:09:25 Bransle Gay
0:10:56 Bransle Double
0:12:14 Bransle de Villages
0:16:23 Philou
0:19:25 Ballet des Sorciers
0:20:05 Ballet des Princesses
0:22:46 Ballet / Ballet des Bacchanales / Ballet des Matelotz
0:24:40 Ballet des Coqs
0:26:10 Bransle de la Torche
0:27:34 Pavane de Spaigne
0:31:32 Spagnoletta
0:33:25 Passameze pour les Cornetz
0:35:17 Courante
0:37:39 Courante
0:39:14 Courant de Bataglia
0:40:41 La Sarabande
0:42:29 Volte du Tambour
0:43:15 Volte
0:47:37 Voltes
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Many thanks for the timings!
Thanks
Merci
Grazie
Grata
Thank you!
Welcome to the Golden Age!!❤
In 2002 I was very sick and I needed treatment in an hospital in the south of Germany. The doctor who treated me had the surnmae Praetorius. I asked him if he was an descendant of the famous composer Michael Praetorius. He said yes and was very pleased, that I knew about Michael Praetorius. We talked about the music of his ancestor and I forgot about the pain I was suffering before. Never forget about this beautiful encounter.
Wow das ist wirklich unglaublich. Vielleicht hatte oder hat er, genauso wie sein talentierter Vorfahre, ebenfalls noch Musik im Blut. Wie toll muss es sein, die Terpsichore zu hören und zu wissen, dass es einst der eigenen frühe Vorfahre selbst komponierte. Eine tolle Geschichte!☺
@@nussnager2155 Mir lief es wirklich kalt den Rücken runter, als ich hörte, dass der Arzt wirklich ein direkter Nachfahre von Michael Praetorius war. Ich bin wirklich ein großer Liebhaber dieser Alten Musik. Und einen Nachfahren des großen Michael Praetorius kennen zu lernen, der mir noch dazu medizinische Hilfe angedeien ließ, hat mich nachhaltig bewegt.
Also falls jemand einem Urologen aus Süddeutschland mit dem Namen Praetorius begegnetz: er ist ein Nachfahre des Komponisten!
@@nussnager2155 Actually most of Praetorius descendants are not called "Praetorius" because 50% of them were women. He is just into an uninterrupted MALE descendance of Praetorius, a very thin line. So you might be a descendant of Praetorius as well
Ich wünschte ich wäre bei deinem arzt ,dann könnte ich mal über gute musik reden ,v
@@alexandradeuen1610 Ich habe recherchiert: Dr. med. Praetorius praktiziert mittlerweile als niedergelassener Urologe in München.
Every casual days goes by like the wind while listening to this heroic music in Winter Tokyo
I'm on cloud
One of the best records in early music history, this unsurpassed version was an unforgettable milestone. Brings back so many memories and long lost youthful sensations.
Très beau, paradisiaque, rare beauté Praetorius génial, j'adore./
ПОКОРНЕЙШЕ ВАМ БЛАГОДАРЮ! НАКОНЕЦ-ТО, НАШЁЛ ИМЕННО ТАКОЙ СТИЛЬ КЛАССИКИ, КОТОРЫЙ НРАВИТСЯ! ■
КЛАССИКА - ЭТО ЛУЧШЕЕ ЛЕКАРСТВО ОТ ВСЕХ БОЛЕЗНЕЙ И ШЛЯПОВИРУСОВ!!! ■
Very nice 👍🏴
Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of the sleeping watchmen !
Very good!
Is this text taken from a known author?
Just what I was thinking lol
Skinned lives?
JUST A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL ENSEMBLE OF MUSIC.
Bransle de la Torche. Bellissimo!
Ho imparato la coreografia
This promotes spiritual uplift and awakening
This invigorates the human spirit
I'm new to Praetorius. Fabulous!
Great music to listen to, you see the dancing people in front of you on this music
I like it so much. I played in a youth orchester from 1997 till 2004 on the trombone. My favourite composer was always Michael Praetorius. It was the greatest man on earth! RIP!
@@reneg.1620 I had the chance to dance some of these dances with the french group "Danses et danceries" in the "châteaux de la Loire" during the season 1982-83 in the region of Blois (France)
@@angelriosriquelme7134 Cool.
A most noble Compilation of Musick, yea, verily!
So much joy. Many thanks.
１曲目が、とても華やかで素晴らしい！！🎉
True.
my heart is flying......
My very fond childhood memory some 400 plus years ago !
Tellement beau !
There are many excellent recordings of these dances, but this one just has to be the best. So stylish and imaginative in its interpretations !
To continue to enjoy the music without hating myself for it, I have to keep telling myself that credit should go to the performing musicians, not to Phillip Pickett (look him up in Wikipedia if you don't know why he's persona non grata - he's a serial sexual abuser. Convicted and sentenced and imprisoned. He was assaulting members of the ensemble. They played well in spite of him, not because of him) but yes. This is definitely the best recording of Dances from Terpsichore, by far.
@@SerafinDrake I must say, I had absolutely no idea about that until I read your comment tonight. I'm disgusted. I have removed his name from the video description, as I believe the musicians alone should be credited, rather than him.
@@SerafinDrake Don`t you think he owes a lot to David Munrow?
@@SerafinDrake Not just members of the ensemble, but also young women at the Guildhall School of Music, as well as private students dating back to the 1970's. He's been a life-long predator, and was unrepentant at his trial.
@@RenaissanceEarCandy I applaud your decision. He was a real creep. I don't want to go into private detail, but he caused a lot of trauma for a lot of us. There were far better people to play under. Even playing under John Elliot Gardener was preferable. Playing under Christopher Hogwood and Trevor Pinnock was a dream, and more a collaboration than a subjugation, just aa it was reported to be in the Baroque period. The same was true of David Monroe before he took his life. I wonder what might have been if he had have got treatment for his far to obvious depression. Many of us owe our careers to him, whereas many lost their careers, and even their lives to Pickett (three people that I know of committed suicide after he raped them, and the people who could have done something about it either did nothing, or reprimanded the victims for accusing such a popular person in the early music community). Mr. Pickett deserves every microsecond of his sentence, and should never be allowed back to his former prominence and glory. As he continues to be unrepentant, even boasting in prison about his exploits, he will reoffend, and I dread the day he is released. He is a violent serial rapist/sexual offender and by his own admission he is not going to change.
I used to have that CD. Thanks for bringing it back! The Susato CD also.
The Susato cd is also up on my channel but it hasn't got the album cover as the picture. I used a different picture with each piece of music. A picture that I thought matched each piece.
I really liked those pictures.@@RenaissanceEarCandy
Absolutely brilliant music.
Beautiful
Музыка совершенно изумительной красоты! 🙏💓
Listen to this almost every day during work. This is still the best version of the dances I have found to date. Many thanks for uploading, this video has brought me much joy and got me through some tough days!
You're very welcome! Glad it brings you so much joy.
I agree.
So many thanks for this. Lightens up the spirit.
very amazing
Sublime Michael at his best!
such majestic music.
🎄Again, thank you!🎄
Splendide !
thanks for the upload I look for this version for many years
yes yes yes!
Amei! ❤❤❤❤
Please somebody that knows the names of this delightful works, replicate my comment with Track names modified!
0:00:00 Track 1
0:01:25 Track 2
0:03:39 Track 3
0:07:43 Track 4
0:10:56 Track 5
0:12:14 Track 6
0:16:23 Track 7
0:19:25 Track 8
0:20:05 Track 9
0:22:46 Track 10
0:24:40 Track 11
0:26:10 Track 12
0:27:34 Track 13
0:31:32 Track 14
0:33:25 Track 15
0:35:17 Track 16
0:37:39 Track 17
0:39:14 Track 18
0:40:41 Track 19
0:42:29 Track 20
0:43:15 Track 21
0:47:37 Track 22
Track nine is called Ballet des Sorciers/Ballet des Princesses
I have done so
Renaissance age d'or de l'humanité, j'entend déjà les bibliothèques à deux pattes dire; "et le peuple?" OUI! ET EN MACRONIE ET LE RESTE DU MONDE, ET LE PEUPLE? avec les moyens que nous avons, la misère est révoltante./
J'ai eu l'occasion de danser certaines de ces danses avec le groupe "Danses et danceries" aux châteaux de Blois et Chambord en juin 1983
@@angelriosriquelme7134 Félicitations, continuez et si possible en robe de l'époque,bravo./
@@labananiere Ce n'est plus possible. Le groupe n'existe plus 😢
Schöne musik ,kann ich rauf und runterhören ,wird nie öde ,i
Stimmt.
Praetorius působil i v Čehách. Představa, že při jeho hudbě tančili na banketech páni Smiřický, Harant, Velen ze Žerotína, mladý Anhalt atd., je fascinující...
Vzácný čech, Kryštof Harant, by si býval jistě mnohokrát zatančil a zanechal nám také více kompozicí…to pomyšlení, že díky “Bílé Hoře” musel skončit na popravišti je nesnesitelné.
@@blancakamp3138 politics always comes first, that is the most important awakening for every human being, knowledge about how structure works and how violence and war are its tools.
Some of these renaissance dancers were lords who are responsible for early modern mass carnages, some were evil merchants or peasants who did their share of crime in peace.
@@blancakamp3138 Děkuji za zpětnou vazbu. Domnívám se, že je dobře, že pan Harant nepatřil k těm packalům před Prahou L.P. 1620. Nechť Nejvyšší sudí i všechny světlé duše bojovníků odpustí amatérskému dějepravci a šermířskému učni! Myslím si, že na té Bílé Hoře si nejlépe vedli a svou soldátskou čest před jinými zachovali: jezdci propůjčení císaři králem polským (lisovčíci) a rejtaři/arkebuzíři regimentu ml. pána z Anhaltu; pak stavovská artilerie, složená vesměs z českých dělostřelců - tehdy stále pvažovaných za potomky husitských "puškařů".
00:07:44 Bransle simples/gay/double
Bourrée que amo!!!! 🎉
Amo música antiga e Petronius é dos melhores
I believe it's "Praetorius."
The part you're looking for is at 3:40
Adorável
Thank you!
The music is beautiful, and the musicians do an excellent job, but Pickett is a criminal and deserves every second of the 11 years he was sentenced to. I wish the remainder of the musicians continued success in their careers, as they are all quite talented.
Yes, that's why I don't mention him in titles or descriptions. I did put his name in a title of a video which was actually superimposed over the video itself (it was the New London Consort's Dansereye), but I did that before I knew about Pickett's crimes. I of course now deeply regret doing so and it unfortunately cannot be removed.
@@RenaissanceEarCandy I deeply appreciate that you have taken as much action as you have been able to. I'm sure that if others who have been on the wrong side of him were to see this, they would also appreciate it.
Wonderful Music, some parts remind me Irish-Celtic Music...
En ces temps, la musique populaire était de qualité... Ce n'est plus toujours le cas en 2020...
Il faut évoluer avec son temps sans pourtant renier le passé ! Chaque époque recèle de qualités ! Aujourd'hui j'aime autant la Deep House, le rock, le reggae, le R&B, le blues, le disco que la musique médiévale, baroque ou renaissance pourvu que cette musique m'apporte émotion et joie ! La musique restant à jamais ce que l'homme ait inventé de meilleur !
Pour Philippe, Charlie 47 :j'a, précisé , pas toujours, et en effet, il ya d'excellentes musiqes populaires actuelles par exemple, j'apprécie beaucoup la jeune génération de chanteuses country us actuelle, des chanteuses françaises ou quebequois es... Des noms ? Reina del cid, Ingrid Leclerc ou Pomme pour la France...
Yes yes yes Godmusic.
What did Praetorius start with? Were the pieces already harmonized or did he have just the melodies--I imagine the dancing master piping as his students practiced. Given the variety of orchestrations that have been recorded, I infer that Praetorius did little to specify instruments for the different parts.
anyone know what instruments are used? Some pretty crazy sounding ones in there!
Zink (Cornet), Rankett, Tympani, Krummhorn.Violin
What's that bass instrument in the Bourée 1? It sounds to me like a dulziane...
@@StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC I believe you're right
Brilliant 1. Passameze; Galliarde
3:40
La Bouree
ミカエル・プレトリウス テルプシコーレ舞曲(1612)
ミカエルじゃ無くて、ミヒャエルです！！
ミカエルじゃ無くて、ミヒャエルです！！
Passameze shows lords who dance with their swords drawn out and their ladies are also dancing but at a distance. They are all on a military campaign, rich folks running this show from ancient times brought their entourage, their court musicians, while the big oak tree is littered with hanged deserters, enemies and peasants.
This music is not only a counterpoint to the violence of the 16th century but it is its integral part - whether lords or rich merchants and craftsmen from the middle class, whether peasants during harvest or in the closing autumn to celebrate hard work - they are all dancing, they shall all feel, in one way or another, the brunt of violence, of war, of brutality, of dirtiness and diseases, of the struggle to survive, they shall be moved by irrational passion to live, and if they survive through their infancy they shall either accept the realisation of what existence really is, or sink into depression and illusions, until mercenary veterans kill those gentle souls unaccustomed to the ways of life. Mercenary sword, dagger, pike, arquebuse, musket, pistol, halberd, zweihander or under hooves of the specially bred and royal stables trained warhorses who do not shy even from the wall of pikes.
Gentle sensitive souls or their harder town or village neighbors - they can all perish during looting, pillaging, raping and massacring. But amidst life's brutish brevity they would strive to live it to the fullest, by working, by dancing, by making love and fighting like in a frenzy. Along with their dethatched cynical lords who spend human lives in droves to defend or enlarge their realms.
This passameze is just a prelude to the drama of life enfolding in each of these masterly performed miniatures. 16th century, with all of its contradictions of the heights of human spirit to the almost uninterrupted century and a half of more brutal carnage than in previous centuries, clearly showed still present opposing forces of advancement in all fields, including the means for war, the tools for killing.
Bransle de Villages shows in a film montage sequence Dutch/Flemish peasants during sunny summer - collectively working in the fields, drinking, feasting, resting, smiling, dancing, making love, preparing for the winter... And all that can be erased in a moment. But during these four minutes of music celebrating life, work and love peasant's melancholy nostalgia kicks in while during a long war, impoverished in a big walled Flemish city, remembers how 10 years ago he had a family and a property, while now, with his complete left hand lost during the destruction of the village, he has nothing and has to beg to survive.
This music and this performance are more than they might appear to be. Whispering of the lords, while musicians are playing, can determine who will survive and who will perish. And that doesn't mean only political intrigues aimed at rich and powerful individuals but in secrecy expressed plans determining the fate of many.
Lords have no time or inclination to give to the music more than it "deserves." They are in the ruthless primordial tundra-like killing game. Then Machiavelli, whispering to the lord of Milan, suddenly turns towards you, presses his finger on his lips and points out to the musicians.
"Enjoy your music."
A tedious screed; this is no place for dogma.
@@richardcleveland8549 what is in my text dogmatic?
@@gorankatic40000bc The whole thing; irrelevant, tedious and unnecessary. IMHO, of course . . . .
@@richardcleveland8549 dogmatic in a sense of presented pictures being truthful to the music? I appreciate your input and I am glad Renaissance Ear-Candy liked my comment.
I love the deep picturesque descriptions of the time.
Da koennt ihr die schlager gut und gerne selber hören ,ich hab keine zeit für der artige lalle ,denn ich höre lieber renaissance und barock an ,ballermann mag ich auch nicht ,
Süsse ,,schweinereien,, für die ohren ,
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