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Early Music - Bachwards to Binchois

Mistress-Kee...	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 9:04 AM When I first joined up, EM was conspicuous by its absence. Surely I am not the only EM enthusiast here? Has nobody else explored Tomas Luis de Victoria? Giles Farnaby? "Dolens" Dowland? Will Byrd? Or the king of the street-hop, Tylman Susato (aka Sussudio)?
EvilPicnic	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 9:16 AM By EM do you mean Early Music? If so, I've explored it a little, I've been studying music from the Rennaissance upwards but didn't get into it in a listen-for-enjoyment sort of way. I don't recognise the names. I know John Dowland... um.. 'My Mother Bids me Bind My Hair', I think that was one of his madrigals. And one of my aims in life is to learn to play the theorbo. Bach and a few others notwithstanding, music (in all forms) seems to get more interesting for me the closer to 'now' it gets.
EvilPicnic	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 9:22 AM ach... sod... I meant 'Flow My Tears' - that's John Dowland. 'My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair' is Haydn. As you can see - no, I'm not really an EM enthusiast. But I'll listen to anything and give it a chance.
zedsalt	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 11:22 AM My father said this once to a coworker at the Post Office: "I got no time for Haydn; I'm a Bizet man!".
Mistress-Kee...	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 11:53 AM EP - Early Music abbreviated to EM, yes. John Dowland, a popular quip in his time, semper Dowland, semper dolens - loosely translates as "if it's Dowland, it's weepy". The Theorbo - excellent ambition, always looks a little daunting to me with that enormous neck. One of my hobbies is lutherie (which I do badly, like everything else). It took me a long time to get "into" Haydn, then I heard one of his choral pieces. I guess what puts me off a lot of "serious" contemporary music is the work of people like Mark-Anthony Turnedge and Harrison Birtwistle .
EvilPicnic	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 12:18 PM It's an ambition in the same category as walking on the moon - not likely to be realised. Those things are expensive. Beautiful, but expensive. Mark-Anthony Turnage is actually one of my favourite modern composers . I was at the first UK performance of Blood On The Floor. Modern music doesn't have to be all dissonance, though, just as Early Music doesn't necessarily mean constant consonance. John Tavener (not to be confused with John Taverner) has done a beautiful modern piece for SATB called The Lamb, you might like it. Messiaen's Quartet For The End Of Time is also amazingly beautiful.
Mistress-Kee...	Date: April 19, 2006 @ 9:52 PM I think I have heard parts of "The Lamb". And I have a treasured copy of Messiaen's "Turangalila".

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