Former Times Music

metaw3 wrote:

metaw3 wrote:
I have used the 887 prelude and 878 fugue in a video game for which I was in charge of the music, but it's a PC game only. I'll try and find the MIDI files on my old drives. Here is the game:
http://rapidshare.com/files/421227106/Bubbles.zip

I found them.

Here is the 887 prelude. I used three sounds: 1. xylophone to insist on the 'rolling' aspect of the music; 2. accordian to give the music a 'tango' feeling I was getting 3. celesta to add resonance and reverb to the two 'dry' previous sounds.
http://www.toofiles.com/en/oip/audios/mid/gsharp.html

Here is the 878 fugue:
http://www.toofiles.com/en/oip/audios/mid/emaj.html

Both lovely . I enjoyed listening to them
Thank You

I downloaded the game . What application shall I open it with ?

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mudra

mudra wrote:Will you make a video of your playing of this piece and post it metaw ?

Maybe. I would have to shave first.

mudra wrote:Extraordinary .. It is hard to believe Angela Hewitt's hands are making this piece of music coming alive . It seems the music is just taking place in that space and that every atom and molecule there is contributing to it .
I loved it metaw.

Hard to believe it was written in 1700. Bach was way ahead of his time.

mudra wrote:I downloaded the game . What application shall I open it with ?

I don't think you can open it. It's a Windows game. On Windows, you would just click and install the program.

Thank you mudra for this thread. It made me not only start again listening to music, but also play.

There was a Part's composition uploaded for the first time on youtube yesterday when I checked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO9U4QWZUoI

And I found this group of composers with some good pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/group/myoriginalcompositio

Hello Mudra, hello beautiful people,

I would like to introduce you with a Macedonian composer Goran Trajkoski's music (small part of it) from a stage in early 90s, when he formed a group named "Anastasia" -- it is a kind of Macedonian sound identity, a mix of deep ancient roots, Ortodox liturgy, and oriental lines, with some modern tonalities.

Here are two great pieces.Goran is also singing the songs.

(Don't pay attention to videos -- they are afwull..lol)

Love&Respect

THE RIVERS OF VAVILON


PASS OVER

metaw3 wrote:

mudra wrote:Will you make a video of your playing of this piece and post it metaw ?

Maybe. I would have to shave first.

I am usually not using my eyes to listen to music

metaw3 wrote:Hard to believe it was written in 1700. Bach was way ahead of his time.

I believe he opened the door to many wonders that came after him while remaining completely unique.

metaw3 wrote:Thank you mudra for this thread. It made me not only start again listening to music, but also play.

Nothing could make me more happy metaw.
The first pieces I heard from you I have loved
and I thought " I would love to hear some more ".
I have enjoyed this thread from the moment I opened it .
It's been quite a journey of discovery and appreciation .
Thank you for your outstanding and so inspiring contributions.

metaw3 wrote:There was a Part's composition uploaded for the first time on youtube yesterday when I checked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO9U4QWZUoI

And I found this group of composers with some good pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/group/myoriginalcompositio

Thank You



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Oliver wrote:Hello Mudra, hello beautiful people,


Here are two great pieces.Goran is also singing the songs.

Love&Respect

Oliver welcome on this thread my friend
Good to see you here
Thank you for sharing music from your culture with us.
I enjoyed listening to both of these pieces you shared .

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mudra

Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjeff
Bayati
originally transcribed to piano by thomas de hartmann
Anja Lechner: Violoncello
Vassilis Tsabropoulos: Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mop7AGnpnZ4&feature=related


Gurdjieff / De Hartmann - The Big Seven
performer :Wim Van Dulleman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5EoSzdR61c&feature=related


Gurdjieff (1872-1949) / De Hartmann (1885-1956) - Hindu Melody
performer: Alessandra Celetti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11T9McFERhs&feature=related


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mudra

Thanks Mudra,

I am glad you liked it..lyrics are also great.
Goran is my dearest friend, and this evocation of his music inspired me to make a fast translation of the lyrics of PASSOVER. He wrote them too.

Greetings,



PASSOVER

I stand, not knowing how.
In front of Who knows who's door.
And again I check am I dreaming or I'm awake,
Am I contemplate or I'm heretic, who the hell will know ...
And I look for a sign, traces of suffering,
Is this a land after which He once walked.
Do they really kill him, the one that chose them,
the one that walked them through the desert, oh Lord.


Why do I stand motionless and have no such power?

Is it I do not believe sufficiently or I understood it false?

Where these doubts coming from, where this fear coming from?

Will He open, will He receive me inside?

The one from whom I am, will not allow

The one who loved me, will not leave me

alone in the middle of forest of arms that speeding me.

Oh God, Glory to You ...


As an outspread cedar, as an risen cypress.
As a palm in garden, pomegranate in Cadiz.
I smell as a myrrh, as a rose in Jericho.
As a bright olive near the blue seas.
As a marble mountain situated in the middleof a field.
As a fortress, shelterd by You.
As a prophetic voices, patristic hymns.
To call from depth, to sang in the deserts.
As a stone through the mountain to roll to abyss.
As a mountain stream to hasten You to.
To rush to You, to offer You a glory.

Oliver wrote:Thanks Mudra,

I am glad you liked it..lyrics are also great.
Goran is my dearest friend, and this evocation of his music inspired me to make a fast translation of the lyrics of PASSOVER. He wrote them too.

Thank You Oliver



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Carmen - Bizet
interpreted by Julia Migenes: Julia Migenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsuP0uta7s&feature=related


Maria Callas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZRssq7UlM&feature=related


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Remembering Jacqueline du Pre part 1/6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zUXaBW4wtQ


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHzC8mVfVWU

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It took me a while to be able to find my words for this last video you posted metaw .
I believe it's because what stood out for me in this one is the context itself more than the music .
It's awefully sad to follow this close up on the forced man made death of these little creatures.
When I find a bug in the house I usually pick it up and bring it back to the garden .
Once however there was a wasp nest under the bedroom window of my son and there is little else I could do but to call the proper autorities to destroy the nest .
I think that made it even harder for me to watch this video.
I am so sorry to be the one that was at the source of what I now realized is a long and painfull death .

Love from me
mudra

mudra wrote:I think that made it even harder for me to watch this video.
I am so sorry to be the one that was at the source of what I now realized is a long and painfull death .

So that video was kind of a catharsis?

New one from Arvo Part. "New" meaning this particular composition was not uploaded yet on youtube. Well there was a rehearsal, but not the actual piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5E1RE59iZk

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From the Atlanta blues scene in the 1980's. The keyboard player is Scott Hooker. He played in my (ex)husband's band in the early 1980's. This tune is dedicated to all of my friends in the Mists. Love, Linda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUdEuEBu-w

metaw3 wrote:

mudra wrote:I think that made it even harder for me to watch this video.
I am so sorry to be the one that was at the source of what I now realized is a long and painfull death .

So that video was kind of a catharsis?

Well I can't speak of a real catharsis here . It would need further insight to really get to a point of liberation . More of a catalyst as it triggered reflection .

metaw3 wrote:New one from Arvo Part. "New" meaning this particular composition was not uploaded yet on youtube. Well there was a rehearsal, but not the actual piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5E1RE59iZk

The video was perfect for this piece .. It really helped me get into it .

Thank You metaw .

Love from me
mudra

lindabaker wrote:From the Atlanta blues scene in the 1980's. The keyboard player is Scott Hooker. He played in my (ex)husband's band in the early 1980's. This tune is dedicated to all of my friends in the Mists. Love, Linda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUdEuEBu-w

Nice to see you here linda .
Lovely song from the Atlanta blues
Thanks for the gift .



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mudra

Paco de Lucia Concierto de Aranjuez Part.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxpRVbhWlLI&feature=related


Paco de Lucía Concierto de Aranjuez Part2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LL1x6J2rU&feature=related


Paco de Lucía Concierto de Aranjuez Part3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuxb4zs0BNA&feature=related



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Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

UC Davis University Chorus, Alumni Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir perform Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," at the Mondavi Center on the campus of UC Davis. Jeffrey Thomas, conducting, Shawnette Sulker, soprano, Gerald Thomas Gray, tenor, and Malcolm MacKenzie, baritone

1:11:11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM


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mudra wrote:Paco de Lucia Concierto de Aranjuez Part.1

I love this guitarist. I went to his concert in Montreal in 2007 I think. If you don't have it already, here is my favorite recording of him:
http://rapidshare.com/files/424116669/paco-01-Mediterranean-Sundance-Rio-Ancho.mp3

There are videos of him playing that piece on youtube, but none of this particular performance which is outstanding.

metaw3 wrote:
I love this guitarist. I went to his concert in Montreal in 2007 I think. If you don't have it already, here is my favorite recording of him:
http://rapidshare.com/files/424116669/paco-01-Mediterranean-Sundance-Rio-Ancho.mp3

There are videos of him playing that piece on youtube, but none of this particular performance which is outstanding.

Thanks for the file metaw
He has a very warm way to play . I love him too :)
I went to see him when he came here in Brussels for the Mediterranean Sundance concert with John McLaughlin and Aldi Meola .
Fantastic performance .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZrB_FDw4c


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Liszt Un sospiro Lívia Rév

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wsUSj-56c&feature=related


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Freshly uploaded:

Arvo Part concert (11 videos). Performed October 10th, 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgzBVeTt9nk&feature=&p=25B7C82C8D819C7E&index=0&playnext=1

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Thank You metaw
I can't unfortunately listen to it right now.
My computer crashed two days ago and
don't know when it will be fixed.
I am posting from my daughter's computer
at the moment which she lends me sparingly .
Arvo Part will be in concert in Brussels next march

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Monteverdi Cantate Domino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iR-OUOa_dc&feature=related


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Water Buddha - Zen Bamboo Flute (Shakuhachi) performed by Debbie Danbrook

The shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute varying from 1.3 to over 3 feet in length. It came into Japan from China at the end of the 7th century. From this period until as late as the 12th century it was used in gagaku (court music). Little is known of the music that was played on the shakuhachi at this time, although there are some flutes from this period preserved at Shoso-In in Nara, Japan. These flutes have 6 finger holes, and were made from thin walled bamboo.

During the period between the 12th and 16th centuries, the shakuhachi is reported to have been played by a wide range of people, including: mendicant monks, the Emperor Go-Komatsu (1408), and the famous Rinzai Zen Master Ikkyu of Daitoku-ji in northern Kyoto (1394-1482). This shakuhachi was later referred to as the hitoyogiri to distinguish it from the longer, heavier, and bigger bore flutes that the mendicant monks eventually developed. These mendicant monks were later called komosô (straw mat monk), a name descriptive of their life of homeless poverty. Their numbers gradually increased, due in large part to an influx of rônin (lordless samurai) who grew in number during the period of civil wars (15-16th centuries), and especially after the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, solidified his rule over Japan in the early 17th century.

It was during the rigid, but peaceful order of Tokugawa rule known as the Edo Period, that the komosô banded together and formed a formal religious sect claiming ties back to Fuke, an eccentric Chinese Zen monk who lived during the 9th century. The government went along with the story and the Fuke sect was established in 1614 as a branch of Rinzai Zen. At this time the komosô changed their name to komusô (monks of empty nothingness), and through a special arrangement with the government, won the sole right to solicit alms by playing the shakuhachi . During this period the shakuhachi began to be made from the root section of bamboo. This method of construction greatly improved the acoustic properties of the flute as well as making it a suitable means for self-defense while on solitary pilgrimages.

The special relationship between the Fuke sect and the Tokugawa government led to the sect's dissolution in 1871 following the government's collapse during the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868. Fuke shakuhachi went underground only to surface in 1883 in the establishment of the Myoan Society at the Fuke Temple, Myoan-ji, in the old capital city of Kyoto. This society and its many players are responsible for the transmission of the Fuke shakuhachi tradition to this very day.

Komuso Sprituality

The komusô played the shakuhachi in conjunction with the practice of zazen (sitting zen) and called this suizen (blowing zen). Playing the shakuhachi was a form of sutra chanting in the Fuke Temples. As such, the shakuhachi was not considered a musical instrument but a religious tool. What resulted from this practice was a large body of music called honkyoku (original music). In the purest honkyoku, primary attention is given to each breath-sound rather than to various musical elements like melodic progression. The komusô centered their practice of shakuhachi on developing what they called their kisoku (spiritual breath) to such a degree that they would enter the state of tettei on (absolute sound) with the bamboo and everything else. Their aim was to experience enlightenment through the shakuhachi . This goal is perhaps best expressed in a komusô saying, Ichion Jobutsu: Become a Buddha in one sound.

Although there are a number of common honkyoku, many still exist which have characteristics peculiar to the Temple of origin. Regardless, however, of what Temple a honkyoku comes from, they are all a testament of the komusô 's search to blow that one sound which would lead the monk, and those listening, they believed, to enlightenment.


http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=1x-wyp1vDGI&feature=channel


Debbie Danbrook is a performer, composer and recording artist who comes from the renowned Watazumi-Do line of Shakuhachi Masters. Danbrook is carrying on the tradition passed on to her in Japan by Tadishi Tajima with the teaching of the first Shakuhachi Master class at the university of Toronto. Danbrook specializes in the healing properties of music. The shakuhachi's revitalizing and powerful sound vibrations lead to a relaxed meditative state where healing can take place for both the player and the listener.

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