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Fantastic work as always, many thanks for exploring music of that period!

Would you be willing to discuss Bieber and scordatura? Nobody enlightens early music as well as you do, and I can't be the only one who'd find your take edifying.

Best video i've seen on the subject, thanks a lot.

The beginning on 3:15 reminds me of Rovetta's "O Maria"

There is an alternative approach to keep the main melody tones original and construct the appropriate pure intervals based on the melody note.

1) Reconstruct the acoustics of the Leipzig Churches. 2) Limit the size of the audience accordingly. 3) Ban professional singers, females, and those over the age of 18. (This probably automatically cuts vibrato singing to a minimum.) 4) Consider the size of the organ lofts. 5) Refrain from showy tempos. SOLI DEO GLORIA was the motto. Do all this if you desire to explore the musical experience of the time. To explore the musical substance of the music, study Bach's scores. I have been doing it for the last 60 years. For much of the clavier compositions, there is a historically correct choice of clavichord, harpsichord, or organ. Most of Bach's music sounds great even when interpreted by balalaika ensemble, accordion, or synthesizer. What does that tell you about the Idealbesetzung for the cantatas? Rifkin or Richter, YOU decide.

Very interesting to hear this brief history of chant from an early music musician as opposed to those singing the chants in the traditional Latin Mass. I would like to hear your comparison of the interpretations of chant rhythm-Cardine vs. Old Solemn style. It’s quite the controversy in the Latin Mass community. As a director and singer of Gregorian chant, I might differ with your undertones of criticism toward the Solesmes interpretation of chant. I have studied chant from Solesmes monks and heard their explanations as to the decisions of the monk scholars in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There was nothing random about their decisions as to the rhythm and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude for notating the entire liturgy. Without their years of study and publications the last century of chant revival would not have happened.

Thank you so much for this excellent video. I want to add one thought: Look at all the baroque architecture in Italy, southern Germany, Vienna and Prague - it is full of vibrato! At the same time El Escorial was built with absolut straightness. So I can imagine how the music of the past was performed in many different ways.

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What an impressively cleaver way to embroidering sounds!!!

Bravo! Very informative about my favorite carol.

I wrote my bachelor thesis in 2010 on possibilities in improvised two-part canons to make a proper cadence at the end of it by using specific phrases through the leader to indicate the end of the canon for the follower.

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Thank you very much

Could someone recommend me some writings on this period composition subject please... 🙏

Ah, these reinassance musicians. "not writing flats is a mortal sin!!! You can omit sharps though". What were they thinking?? What was the point of writing music down in the first place if the information was so approximate? 😅

Nice video! Sugestion for a next one: the passamezo / romanesca theme found in the pieces Parson's Farewell, Bransle de Avignon, Stil, Stil Een Reys, etc.

I absolutely love that Liszt recording. It's so loose and free that it almost sounds as if the three lower voices are the song and the top voice is background music from that's being picked up by mistake. So peaceful

I love your videos. They are well informed and well done. I like to share them with my piano technician friends. Thanks for making them!

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Hi. I'm trying to adapt your score for a woodwind quatuor. I'm wondering, the last note of the 2nd variation is really a F natural ? Not sharp ?

Since I was at first confused by the spelling of the name, a little side note from Wikipedia: "Hugh Aston (also spelled Asseton, Assheton, Ashton, Haston;[1] c. 1485 - buried 17 November 1558) was an English composer of the early Tudor period. While little of his music survives, he is notable for his innovative keyboard and church music writing.[citation needed] He was also politically active, a mayor, Member of Parliament, and Alderman."

I know you don't need any suggestions for score analysis but just in case......Walsingham variations by Byrd. One of the most profound pieces ever written. Cheers

Thanks so much for covering Byrd! Would love if you would do one of Tallis's Felix Namques, which are /amazing/ but... I still can't really wrap my head around them after listening and playing them myself (or listening to the plainchant :O )

Not a period composition but a famous style copy is the Warsaw concerto: it was composed to feel and sound like Rachmaninov (to avoid a copyright issue) and it sure does that.

Very interesting and well put together, thank you! Though can I ask why you didn't credit the performers for the modern interpritation?

Fascinante! Si algún cantante en Madrid está viendo esto: quedamos para improvisar polifonía?

I have heard this ground before and considered it really repetitive. Your explainations helped! Thank you.

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So good!

Enjoyed immensely. Thank you. To hear "Early Music" is like visiting another planet. Thank you

Thank you for yet another brilliant episode!

I want to study musicology again, but with this kind of stuff and approach. And teacher ❤❤ o, I love your videos so much!!

It was so beautiful and so full! Thank you Elam!

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Thank you so much for this fantastic work ! We are blessed to have you on UA-cam !!!

Wow what a piece!

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To be honest, most melody variations turn also into harmonic variations very quickly.

That intro was beautiful!

Brilliant video Elam; I have a question: what would you say is the difference between ostinato/ground and forms like Passacaglia or Chaconne?

II=II3. I NEED MY SHOULDER CRUDS TO FALL OUT.

the best music lesson I have ever had . Thank you so much!

That bar with the B flats in the 9th variation is absolutely astonishing. Thank you for sharing!

What a gorgeous piece. I love the major and minor play.

Brilliant!!! Your graphics really bring so much to understanding the piece!!

I love these videos- my choir just finished doing all 3 of Byrd's masses so I'm happy to see something on his other music to complement that