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My brother is a classically trained musician. To him the sound of jazz is like someone dumping out a bucket of nuts and bolts onto a metal tray. Although there is some overlap our musical tastes tend to differ.

Erm. . .ever tried playing off a figured bass?

They give you a sheet with indications that you have to follow....or not.

It's the English drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven". It was written with a wide range deliberately to make it difficult to sing.

That's a pretty pretentious opinion on Jazz music. You skipped over the fact that many of those famous Jazz musicians wanted to study classical music, Charlie Parker for one, but were rejected from those schools because they were black. So they created their own form of classical music. To me that's pretty impressive, not something to make fun of. It was your ancestors that were responsible for the segregation that kept very talented people of color from achieving their dream to become classical musicians.

Uh, let's be clear. Classical pianists have this problem. Brass and woodwinds have no problem with jazz... at all.

I'd like to add two more comments. First, it does seem like post 1960 many great jazz pianists also played classical music--like Keith Jarrett. The great jazz pianists of the first half of the 20th cent tried to expand their knowledge by playing classical music & opera & to take advantage of that learnings--see Willie the Lion's Echo of Spring--but I don't think Fats Waller or James P Johnson or Earl Hines would have ever considered playing classical music in concert. Second, given all we hear about improvisation, jazz piano of the last 50 yrs seems to have settled into a groove--Brad Meldau, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, & now Jesus Molina and young Brandon Goldberg seem more like classical musicians than the early jazz pianists, who needed to play loud in order to be heard in clubs w/o amplification and who needed to play tunes that people recognized and were associated with dance steps. Now jazz pianist concerts are very solemn, serious affairs and you kind of know that you won't be able to sing the melody or dance to the rhythm.

this is like a youtube subgenre and I love every one of these videos; they are so funny and they are also very educational for those of us who don't play and just listen.

Ok, the problem here is the notation. When first played it was NOT written. After the fact someone tried to capture this performance by writing it down (before tape recorders). Like a cadenza, which is now written down but originally was improvised.

my first thought was that the child was experiencing death anyway and viewing it in a more fantastical way as kids often do. My other thought goes along with a lot of myths and folklore I think, like a supernatural being crossing over/enticing or bringing a human child back over to their side.

Show Baby some Oscar Peterson. She will understand after that. I promise!

"Wait. What does the percentage symbol mean?"

Us jazz pianists don't need to have everything written out. Makes it that much easier to improvise, re harmonize, etc on the fly. Much simpler to use chord notations!

Ooh, a GameCube! :D

I thought that the piece's title was "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi".

How about this: A Virginian went out west to seek his fortune and was lonesome for his girlfriend left behind in the Shenandoah Valley, near the Shenandoah River?

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This makes me think of Duelling Banjos

That was so cute, can't wait to show my students!

i like what you do. but if you want a "life sucks and then you die", look at the first part of Gaudeamus Igitur....😂

I wish there were more resources like this to explore such rich cultural history. However, I felt there might have been a slight misinterpretation. ‘Nunc obdurat’ meaning ‘now it oppresses’ and ‘et tunc curat’ meaning ‘and then it soothes’ are correctly translated. ‘Ludo mentis aciem,’ on the other hand, literally means ‘I play with the sharpness of the mind,’ emphasizing intellectual engagement rather than doing something as one wishes (‘ad libitum’). I think there may have been a confusion with ‘ad libitum,’ which doesn’t align with the intended meaning of ‘ludo mentis aciem.

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It is an exquisitely beautiful melody. I rather suspect that the original lyrics made perfect sense, and that as the song was passed from generation to generation, something got lost and jumbled along the way. We are left with just a sad sense of loss and longing in hearing the song, but not really knowing exactly why we feel that way. Interesting information on the background, good job on your research.

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Bardcore is/was more like a sort of a "cosmetic" thing, sort of wrapping modern songs into a more "medievalish" sound. There's no attempt at going to a deep, structural level: it might be likeable to the ears, but it's not historically accurate, still neither has ever wanted to be. To me anyway the OG bardcore is Alan A'Dale the Rooster 😄😄.

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"why even back in the medieval era" 1. they were much more exposed to fate than we are. Some things which are today a minor medical problem were back then deadly. 2. In medieval Europe there was a general feeling of vulnerability by fate. More than in other cultures of those times (which were no less vulnerable to fate). It was more about that "life will suck" than "life can suck".

I'm seeing this performed tonight. My first exposure was from the movie 'Excalibur'.

The best version besides Jo Stafford is by this Slovanian Angel with a voice from Heaven th-cam.com/video/oQYEK7cdL6I/w-d-xo.html

This is the best version over of this wonderful song th-cam.com/video/f3Dbx_dgUyE/w-d-xo.html

Yes, gosh, it is a sea shanty!! At the folk club we sing the response indeed

I love that song. I like the traditional presentation but the Mississippi River valley trappers were French Canadian...my ancestors but sea shanties are Irish, aren't they?

Many podcasts and even professionally produced radio shows from the CBC or NPR have a habit of playing background music while the talent speaks over this noise. Just for the hell of it, why not try speaking with no background music. It makes it much easier to follow your story and think about the last thing you said -- thus every you say will lead to your last breath.

The number "seven" in certain versions had a huge historical significance. Seven years was the length of an indentured servitude contract.

In the line "meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön" , which you translated as "my daugthers will gladly wait on you" probably was meant differently originaly. Whilst "warten" nowaays in german is mostly ussed as "to wait", it can also mean "to look after someone or something". This usage of the word has become old fashioned by now but is probably what Goethe wanted to say. To the overall interpretation I might add that the son might have a fever dream (that was my teachers interpretation, as this ballade is a standard in german literaure and usually taught in school) that could explain why the father is in such a hurry as he has his sick, feverish child in his arms, maybe he´s trying to get to a doctor or some place where the xon could rest from his illness.

Shannon’s river in Ireland ,longest river in Ireland ,Shannon Doob(2 ). is called after Shannon a Haoine (1 )

This version was surely fused from a number of different older versions/songs, which is where the "Missouri" part came from.

Lose the guitar strumming chaotically in the background. I just want to hear YOU!

I thought it was called bardcore because ot rhymes with hardcore. Bardcore with bagpipes would just be Medieval rock music like Corvus Corax

Oh what a wonderful interpretation of the song, I always thought Shenandoah was a girl

There were no meaningful copyright laws in early America, the State censorship bureau gave permissions to publish within that state. Intellectual property would travel from state to state, each state claiming its own authentic source, each slightly different from the other. Tunes were often written in four or seven shape note systems taught by itinerant, nameless music teachers.

In the day the indians ranged further south & West than your depiction. Crossing the wide Missouri would have possibly leaving the territory of Cheif Shenandoah, to more hostile indian territories. And the French Voyagers traveled both further South & West trapping

2 islands off the coast of Eastern Canada still belong to France & are French territory

Much of present day known canada was French. The French & Indians united in war against the British.

Recal the French/ Indian War

The entire Louisiana Perchase in cluded much of your 2nd map up and close to the Northwest. It was French, owned until bought by the US from Nepoleon for 2 or 3 million $'s The daughter of Shenandoah likely married a Voyager to solidify their relationship A Chief likely had a number of Children &/or daughters

The French Trappers got along well with the local indigenous people

Love the video, but just wanted to mention that metal ballads are very much a thing:)

The River 'Shannon' in Ireland is named after the sole 'Male' pre-Christian God figure in Ireland. All other rivers are named after female deities. It drains two thirds of the island. It's the longest river in Ireland and Britain. It's often referred to as An t-Sionann Dubh/An Shennon Doo/The Dark Shannon, for the huge volume of water that drains out into the Atlantic Ocean. Early Spanish explorers moving up the East Coast from Florida encountered tall, fair-skinned people in what might now be called Alabama, who warned the Spaniards against the savage natives. It has been speculated that these people were descendants of Irish people who migrated to the Americas many hundreds of years earlier.

Please go in academia. Huge potential. You can pull it off, as if it were a walk in the park.