Is that notated in the manuscript, or is it from contemporary sources? I'd guess the manuscript only has the chant + mode in square notation, but if there's fach-descriptive notation I've never heard of...*vibrates with excitement* No chance there's images of the Gradual online, is there?
I asked my sister what I should take to my singing lesson. She stared at me, unblinking, and said: "Do some Bach oratorio. It's good for you." And then she mimed taking medicine for about 15 mins. Joke's on her, I love this shit.
Don't know enough about early music notation to answer that. Images are available here: http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/p...L USAGE DE L ABBAYE NOTRE-DAME DE FONTEVRAULT
Thank you so much! ...cue intense frustration because I can read the notes but not the calligraphy *facepalm*
I had a choir director who was apparently once in the same room as Netrebko. He says she has so much presence and intensity, she commands attention no matter what she's doing. :D
Bernstein goes back to his roots. PSA: it is inadvisable to have this in your head while cycling through London rush hour traffic. Makes you go "doo doo doot da-DAA, shit, that's, a bus, doot doot, you, wanker that's my right, of way". Road safety at all time low. Advance warning: while not as bad as the "Surprise" Symphony, Chichester Psalms is occasionally kinda Jumpscare - the Music. Especially the 2nd movement, which is also extraordinarily beautiful.
bernstein is a definite fav bernstein??? more like BAEstein amirite //coughs anYWAYS i am playing this piece rn, the 5/8 bits in the middle are complete balls but its such a pretty piece nonetheless
Jumping in with Hindemith: I had to play this for an audition ages ago, and it was really refreshing. Everything I had played for auditions up to that point had been either Romantic period (not my favorite period to play from) or Baroque/early Classical. Edit: This DOES hit some of the highest ranges of a C flute, so if high pitched noises aren't your thing, don't listen to more than the first movement.
Hindemith had so REALLY WEIRD ideas about how we should think about music. Prokofiev was one of his contemporaries - Sonata for Flute and Piano and Peter and the Wolf actually came out in the same year, I think! I'm not sure if they knew each other, but they were definitely being influenced by the same things. Sorry, I tended to do research on a composer if I was auditioning on one of their pieces. It gave me perspective, kinda? I never get to talk about them, though.
It's a good habit to be in, tbh. Round and round my head it goes... Edit: sorry, sound quality of that video was rank. This one's a bit better.
Also from the Hindemith wiki page: That's...really intriguing? Apparently the order goes "C G F A E E♭ A♭ D B♭ D♭ B F♯" ...and I was just like, maj or min? *slaps forehead* literally what the wiki page just said. Both, and neither.
