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- 06 Jun 2011 01:05
- Forum: Music Requests and Questions
- Topic: Purcell, King Arthur from ISMLP
- Replies: 15
- Views: 33887
Re: Purcell, King Arthur from ISMLP
Performance material derived from the public domain source (viz, the 19th century edition by Taylor) would be most welcome. The current situation with respect to King Arthur is that one well-known worldwide publisher claims a partial royalty in the form of grand performance rights for the work, on t...
- 05 Jun 2011 02:23
- Forum: CPDL Support, Questions, and Feedback
- Topic: Plaudits from Melbourne: iPhones+CPDL·org to the rescue!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 35031
Plaudits from Melbourne: iPhones+CPDL·org to the rescue!
A wonderful story from one of the Melbourne choirs it has been my privilege to sing with in the past: yesterday Ensemble Gombert were the choir at a lavish nuptial mass at Xavier College Chapel, one of the most splendidly situated churches in the entire city, and a frequently-used venue for concerts...
- 31 Mar 2011 10:51
- Forum: CPDL Support, Questions, and Feedback
- Topic: "All Rights Reserved" edition hosted on CPDL
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14149
Re: "All Rights Reserved" edition hosted on CPDL
Thanks Charles for providing the links to Leanne's web pages. I'll draw this thread to her attention when I next see her (she’s staying with me over the upcoming holy week) to clarify exactly what is intended. I think without trying to second guess Leanne, all of her pieces allow reasonable re-use p...
- 31 Mar 2011 10:41
- Forum: CPDL Support, Questions, and Feedback
- Topic: Tracking Favorites or Ratings
- Replies: 21
- Views: 29418
Re: Tracking Favorites or Ratings
In other words, about as useful as a chocolate teapot... Want to hear the funniest (oddest) piece of feedback? I got an e-mail telling me the first phrase of Mozart’s Mass in C minor which I’d edited was wrong, as after several notes there should be a D sharp. Explanation: the guy couldn't read the ...
- 21 Nov 2010 09:19
- Forum: Music Requests and Questions
- Topic: Inquiry regarding a Renaissance choral work
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17067
Re: Inquiry regarding a Renaissance choral work
Molto vibrato e rubato, I should think, back then... PML
- 21 Oct 2010 01:01
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Singing and Intonation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69165
Re: Singing and Intonation
Dear Chris, As you point out, alternate temperaments on the lute have inherent weaknesses, such as disparities for notes on the same fret that would be better raised as opposed to lowered from equal temperament, and so if one chooses the sharper or flatter variant it applies across every course of t...
- 19 Oct 2010 23:42
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Singing and Intonation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69165
Re: Singing and Intonation
Hi Chris, Another corollary would be that this music can hardly be accompanied with instruments like the lute (Gesualdo's instrument was the lute, AFAIK), on which equal temperament was common. Fretted instruments like the lute and viol were not necessarily tied to equal temperament, because the fre...
- 19 Oct 2010 22:55
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Score incipit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10511
Re: Score incipit
Anaigeon, I think what you mean is “preparatory staves”, which in addition to clefs, flats and mensuration symbols often also show the first few notes (and preceding rests, if relevant) in their original durations. While you can call these incipits, that term is more usually taken to mean the first ...
- 19 Oct 2010 06:08
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: Singing and Intonation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 69165
Re: Singing and Intonation
First, except for unusually well-trained choral ensembles (like the elite group to which your refer, we assume), this experience indicates strongly that most choirs drift flat not because of comma drift, but because they have poorly trained ears. An aside: I don’t think you meant to give us two “fi...
- 19 Oct 2010 04:48
- Forum: Music Requests and Questions
- Topic: David Fraser's edition of Byrd's Cibavit Eos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9837
Re: David Fraser's edition of Byrd's Cibavit Eos
Hello Simon, Earlier this year (presumably prior to the ill news mentioned under “Current plans”) David mentioned he was keen to contribute a set of Sibelius files that could be used for the purpose of transposition to desired performing pitches: Hello everyone - sorry for the long lay-off from work...
- 29 Jul 2010 05:22
- Forum: Music Requests and Questions
- Topic: Roman passion chant
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13409
Re: Roman passion chant
At worst you could use the modern version of the chant in the Officium Majoris Hebdomadae (Ratisbonae, 1923), which might have some similarity to Guidetti's publication since fairly similar formulas for the recitation tones appear in other Renaissance passion settings, e.g. Lassus. The Officium is a...
- 29 May 2010 13:09
- Forum: Musical questions
- Topic: The Pitch of Tudor Church Music
- Replies: 16
- Views: 69414
Re: The Pitch of Tudor Church Music
I'd like to inject one idea, which is that transposition for the sake of transposition can be annoying - the way a piece reads on the page (especially for pieces which aren't really in the major/minor key system, and are modal) can be distorted by the process, especially if the separate parts are in...
- 16 Apr 2010 00:09
- Forum: Musical activities
- Topic: XIII International Workshop "Évora Cathedral Music School"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 25581
Re: XIII International Worksop "Évora Cathedral Music School"
Paul van Nevel, director of the Huelgas Ensemble, surely?
Looks like a fun workshop ;-)
Looks like a fun workshop ;-)
- 08 Apr 2010 01:40
- Forum: Music Requests and Questions
- Topic: massive works - recommendations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 36230
Re: massive works - recommendations
Ha! I sang the Górecki Miserere in my most recent concert a couple of weeks back - and we made do with 28 voices. It would be interminably painful to do with non-sight-reading people - 30 minutes of nearly unrelieved A minor. The XL piece by Pitts was down on the menu for the concert that included S...
- 29 Mar 2010 02:31
- Forum: Music Requests and Questions
- Topic: massive works - recommendations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 36230
Re: massive works - recommendations
The OP perhaps should have mentioned the choir he's thinking of is largely amateur, and while it has in the past tackled things like Spem the performance in that case wasn't convincing, and was assisted by having instrumental doublings (strings for choirs I to IV, brass for choirs V to VIII). Large ...