Saturday, October 8, 2011

Saturday Classical Music In-Joke Posting

From 1597, please enjoy Giovanni Gabrielli's quite amazing and beautiful Renaissance hit single "Sonata Pian 'e Forte." As performed in 1959, in a glorious arrangement for contemporary orchestral horn section, by Leopold Stokowski and the Symphony of the Air.




This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the mission statement of this blog, but let's say I have my reasons for posting it.

Incidentally, in a sense the Gabrielli piece actually IS kinda proto rock-and-roll, in that it's tuneful, extremely concise (at about five and a half minutes, it's suitable for Top 40 radio play) and depends on tremendous volume to make its point. Plus, it makes very sophisticated use of that whole loud/soft thing that everybody thought was a big deal when Nirvana ripped it off hundreds of years later.
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5 comments:

  1. dSmithOctober 9, 2011 at 12:32 PM

    Cover is great also.

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  2. steve simelsOctober 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    He really looked like a conductor, didn't he.
    :-)

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  3. AnonymousOctober 10, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    Is this a reference to the Flo Mos under-appreciated New York Rock and Roll Ensemble tribute project?

    AP

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  4. steve simelsOctober 12, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    Like I said, it's an in-joke. And completely self-indulgent.

    On the other hand, that's a pretty gorgeous piece of music.
    :-)

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  5. AnonymousOctober 12, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    I tried jamming to it with a heptatonic scale in G
    Not bad. :<) bluesman

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