The History of Classical Music
 

Yes I know this could be counted as spam with a capital S, but I really want everyone to know about this.

In my classical MP3 of the week series (which will be updated more regularly) I am starting a series of MP3's called "The History of Classical Music"

Every week it will slowly yet surely progress through the periods of classical music. If you have ever wondered what seperates a Baroque from a classic piece, or how to identify renassaince era music- you will find this series very informative. If you are at all interested in classical, this is also a great way to identify the period you enjoy, allowing you to explore it further.

It will kick off now with a greogorian chant - and will probably go for a couple months. Don't miss it! Click my Sig Link! :)

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Great idea. :)=:up:

I really should stop making myself laugh so hard.

Thanks again Xerxes, I'd forgotten about this sort of thing.
Sounds like the Dorian Mode to me, unless I miss my guess.
I'm strongly attracted to this sort of music, the instrument I play is one of the few that are both diatonic and fretted, so everything I play is esentially modal.
There is still a relativly strong tradition for this type of music in the American folk tradition, although Appalachian music is mainly polyphonic, with everyone pitching in and finding there own harmonies, there is an older tradition of religious music known as 'Sacred Harp'. Although not strictly monophonic this does restrict itself to open harmony and comes quite close in feel to Gregorian chant.

Try to find an LP called 'Missa Luba', this is the Mass sung in Congolese. You will be interested to hear what African voices have made of this type of music.
The Sanctus is particularly beautiful.

UJ

Why don't you put a number in front of each title (01, 02, 03......90, 91) so that the songs stay in chronological order? Regardless of whether you do it or not, that's what I'm going to do; so that I will always have a quick reference to the history of classical music.

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one for Xerxes and the second for Bop..

...but I haven't done anything. :hang:

of course you did.. your idea to chronotrace the music is a major help to keep Xerxes' idea great.

One more thing Xerxes;
could you bump this thread,
when you update your MP3-OTW?
And give us some information about the selection.
That way we learn a little about your choices
and there's no way we can miss them.
:)

EXCELLENT CHOICE MY FRIEND!
I've been enjoying a lot of Gregorian chant of late....hmmm...coincidence....or something more....
perhaps the resonance has reached the greater soul of humanity.
Or not.
Thank You!

:up: Excellent!

Xerxes, if in the coming series you'd like to feature English Madrigals ca. 16-17th century and/or baroque harpsichord pieces, I can help out. :)

Xerxes, a nightmare for almost full hard-drives :D

Thanks, Alex, going right now to Plastikomatik :)

Well thank you. Although truth be told, there are not much "choices" when it comes to the oldest classical music. The only other that might fit in would be Byzantine liturgical chant... but the tradition is not as intact and unchanged as the Gregorian; as the orthodox christians have meddled with the Byzantine traditions. It is just too diffucult to get the authentic historical sound as it would have been heard in the Byzantine era.

I am not sure if it is similar... but I own the soundtrack to "The Thin Red Line" which had two selections of the "All saints choir" (which I assume to be polynesian in ethnicity) singing hymms. It would be curious to compare the two cultures' sound.

I would, but I'm afraid it would be interpreted as "spamming" ... since it IS an advertisement for my website. My advice would be to just watch my sig- I change it right after I update every time.

As far as a chronological order goes... I would prefer to add a comment in the ID3 line... instead of modifying it. Just to keep things simple. Also, I suppose I will keep a running list as long as
the series goes on so anyone can look at it and make a playlist based off of it.

Not everything is planned out, maybe I could. I would like to keep most of the pieces as "mainstream" as possible so people can relate to them better... but I would be glad to take any files. The 4 piece baroque selection I am planning is missing a very excellent harpsichord solo- I was planning on Handel's "Harmonius blacksmith for Harpsichord and trumpet"... so if you have something super baroque sounding to replace it with... we should talk on IRC :)



Heh, I should talk about Mainstream pieces- I'm seeing Beethoven's 5th performed by a 110 piece ensemble next Thursday :) :) :)

if you think any traditional russian liturgical chants (e.g. vespers) would fit I would be glad to help..

heh, how ironic that you update this thread right as i'm writing the next essay.

What date are the russian chants? I think I might be passing their timeframe with the next one...

let me be sure of the date first; but the versions I have were rearranged by Rakhmaninov (the man) so I dont know if you would fit them within a modern era or a post renaissance period..

Xerxes
 

Please provide last week's link (Chant) along with the current week. I missed the first download. Also, your "Art" link doesn't work. thanks

PM me and I'll hook you up.