More music
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nnyIt might well be more of a vocal bent today, although I say that without having decided on more than two of the tracks I'm going to upload.
I think - most of the music I own I actually rarely listen to. It's mostly playing in the background and I happily ignore it as I type or read or whatever. And then there's the other sort of music that grabs my attention enough that I find myself reading the same page three times and taking nothing in while I mouth unconsciously along with the lyrics. I'm trying to post some of the stuff that grabs me like that.
Ayo Visto lo mappamundi by Waverly Consort.
This is based on a folk song from around Naples and the mid fifteenth century. It made me get out the fife that's been lurking in my cupboard since I went to America last year and toot happily (and somewhat ineptly) along and always makes me want to dance. Dance with people.
A Round of Three Country Dances In One by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
This is a proper folk song, the sort in which it's necessary to stick your fingers in your own ears in order to keep track of your part. There are sadly no whack a fol-diddles, but if it were sped up a little I don't imagine the Lancre Morris Men'd have any shame in dancing along.
Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
I don't know quite how to explain my ridiculous love for this music. It sounds almost unplanned; it's like... imagine a conversation in which everyone has a common goal but none of the participants quite agree about how they ought to go about it. There are moments of clarity and coherency, certainly, but for the most part the discussion breaks down into smaller conversations which reach resolutions of their own only to turn and find that the rest have moved on without them.
It's an odd analogy, maybe, but that's how I see it.
...and this is where I found out that my Corelli is tucked away somewhere in my computer's enormous brain and I have no idea where. Sorry.
Idumea by the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church.
This one... well, my sister's just left the room rather than listen to it, if that's any indication. It's kind of harsh, something of an acquired taste, from the soundtrack of Cold Mountain. It's disordered and chaotic but with an underlying harmony and structure; weirdly, it makes me think of the Dark Tower books. Although... not half so much as I'm Going Home by the same people which suggests stomping on wooden stages and honest sweat and swinging skirts and breathless grins. Think (come) River's dancing, maybe.
The Dragon Boy from Spirited Away.
I'd have uploaded the Sixth Stop if I could have found it, because that part of the film, with the peace and the water, is just beautiful. I love this piece of music, though.
I think that's enough for today. I'm gonna go listen to some Regina Spektor and stare forlornly at text without actually writing anything.
*grins*
I think - most of the music I own I actually rarely listen to. It's mostly playing in the background and I happily ignore it as I type or read or whatever. And then there's the other sort of music that grabs my attention enough that I find myself reading the same page three times and taking nothing in while I mouth unconsciously along with the lyrics. I'm trying to post some of the stuff that grabs me like that.
Ayo Visto lo mappamundi by Waverly Consort.
This is based on a folk song from around Naples and the mid fifteenth century. It made me get out the fife that's been lurking in my cupboard since I went to America last year and toot happily (and somewhat ineptly) along and always makes me want to dance. Dance with people.
A Round of Three Country Dances In One by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
This is a proper folk song, the sort in which it's necessary to stick your fingers in your own ears in order to keep track of your part. There are sadly no whack a fol-diddles, but if it were sped up a little I don't imagine the Lancre Morris Men'd have any shame in dancing along.
Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
I don't know quite how to explain my ridiculous love for this music. It sounds almost unplanned; it's like... imagine a conversation in which everyone has a common goal but none of the participants quite agree about how they ought to go about it. There are moments of clarity and coherency, certainly, but for the most part the discussion breaks down into smaller conversations which reach resolutions of their own only to turn and find that the rest have moved on without them.
It's an odd analogy, maybe, but that's how I see it.
...and this is where I found out that my Corelli is tucked away somewhere in my computer's enormous brain and I have no idea where. Sorry.
Idumea by the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church.
This one... well, my sister's just left the room rather than listen to it, if that's any indication. It's kind of harsh, something of an acquired taste, from the soundtrack of Cold Mountain. It's disordered and chaotic but with an underlying harmony and structure; weirdly, it makes me think of the Dark Tower books. Although... not half so much as I'm Going Home by the same people which suggests stomping on wooden stages and honest sweat and swinging skirts and breathless grins. Think (come) River's dancing, maybe.
The Dragon Boy from Spirited Away.
I'd have uploaded the Sixth Stop if I could have found it, because that part of the film, with the peace and the water, is just beautiful. I love this piece of music, though.
I think that's enough for today. I'm gonna go listen to some Regina Spektor and stare forlornly at text without actually writing anything.
*grins*
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Date: 2007-08-05 04:04 pm (UTC)Yes ma'am.
That is, in fact, exactly why I love those two pieces, and sacred harp music in general.
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Date: 2007-08-05 07:20 pm (UTC)pretend toclean my room. Which I am going to do aaaaaaaaany second now.no subject
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Date: 2007-08-06 12:40 am (UTC)It seems weird that it would rename them like that.