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More on Baroque Music...
May. 12th, 2008 07:24 amSo, a couple of weeks ago I posted about how much I love baroque dance music. Yesterday on St. Paul Sunday, (an NPR show I LOVE because it explores chamber music of all kinds, often focusing on the pathways of sacred music,) they did a marvelous show called Missa Mexicana:
Description: The Hispanic Baroque knit together often-dizzying
contrasts of its culture and beliefs into works of great beauty and
vitality. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Andrew Lawrence-King and the
Harp Consort give us a vivid musical taste of that world in "Missa
Mexicana," a program juxtaposing an exuberant 17th-century Mass setting
by Spanish-born composer Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, chapel master of
Mexico's Puebla Cathedral, with the Latin-American and African folk
dances that in part inspired it. It's a lively Baroque fusion of the
Old World and the New.
http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/programs/516/
Not only did it explore musical pathways in a very experimental kind of way (vocalizing guitar music, of all things), but the dance music was phenomenal. The Spanish 'diaspora' is really hot in early music, and its about time after domination of the English, French, and Italian. Spain was a world power, after all, and the New World elements nearly made me swoon. Of course the New World was already having an influence on music of the period. Of course it would change practices, sound, and movement.
And suddenly I was really interested not only in 'period movement,' which is to say learning about not only how we believe people may have moved in the past, and why, and how we came to that conclusion (I love that the past is not truly fixed, but always being reinterpreted and rediscovered). But I think I would like to take Baroque Dance Classes.
I sent a link to my mother because we've often shared an interest in early music and have long predicted the rise of Spain in early music circles. And I thought I'd share, not just because the program was awesome, but because this is something I know about, and have appreciation and affection for in large part due to my mother.
Description: The Hispanic Baroque knit together often-dizzying
contrasts of its culture and beliefs into works of great beauty and
vitality. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, Andrew Lawrence-King and the
Harp Consort give us a vivid musical taste of that world in "Missa
Mexicana," a program juxtaposing an exuberant 17th-century Mass setting
by Spanish-born composer Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, chapel master of
Mexico's Puebla Cathedral, with the Latin-American and African folk
dances that in part inspired it. It's a lively Baroque fusion of the
Old World and the New.
http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/programs/516/
Not only did it explore musical pathways in a very experimental kind of way (vocalizing guitar music, of all things), but the dance music was phenomenal. The Spanish 'diaspora' is really hot in early music, and its about time after domination of the English, French, and Italian. Spain was a world power, after all, and the New World elements nearly made me swoon. Of course the New World was already having an influence on music of the period. Of course it would change practices, sound, and movement.
And suddenly I was really interested not only in 'period movement,' which is to say learning about not only how we believe people may have moved in the past, and why, and how we came to that conclusion (I love that the past is not truly fixed, but always being reinterpreted and rediscovered). But I think I would like to take Baroque Dance Classes.
I sent a link to my mother because we've often shared an interest in early music and have long predicted the rise of Spain in early music circles. And I thought I'd share, not just because the program was awesome, but because this is something I know about, and have appreciation and affection for in large part due to my mother.
