Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore; Voices of Music 4K UHD
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- A suite from the early baroque dance collection Terpsichore (1612) by Michael Praetorius. Live, 4K UHD video from the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music concert, December, 2016.
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For this concert, we selected six dances from the collection and grouped them together to form a suite:
Ballet, 0:00
Courante 1:47
Spagnoletta 3:11
Volte 5:12
Pavane 6:10
Bourée 7:40
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Michael Praetorius was one of the most important composers and theorists of the late renaissance and early-17th century. His astonishing encyclopedia of music gives us an intriguing glimpse into the instruments and performance practices of the time, and his writing covers all aspects of music. Praetorius wrote popular hymn settings, as well as large-scale compositions that borrowed elements of the polychoral Italian tradition. Praetorius was a tune collector, just like the musicologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who collected songs and dances from different countries; he planned eight volumes of these secular works, but he only finished one: his book of French instrumental dances Terpsichore, named after the muse of dance (1612).
Orchestration: in the 1960s and 1970s, these works were heavily orchestrated-and conducted-in a neo-renaissance style. Although not grounded in historical performance, these orchestrations did, however, introduce a wider audience to the different kinds of instruments in the late renaissance and early baroque and helped popularize the music before Bach. In our performance, we have used strings as the foundation, as this was one of the most popular ways to perform dance music, and added winds, continuo and percussion.
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Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Directors
Musicians (left to right)
Hanneke van Proosdij, recorder, organ & harpsichord
Carla Moore, Gabrielle Wunsch, Lisa Grodin and
Maxine Nemerovski, baroque violins
Maria Caswell, baroque viola
Peter Maund, percussion
Elisabeth Reed and Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos
Farley Pearce, violone
David Tayler, archlute & percussion - เพลง
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Could listen to this all night. Absolutely beautiful and so pure.
I once needed medical treatment in a hospital in southern Germany. There I met a Dr. med. named Praetorius. I asked him if he was an descendent of the famous late renaissance/early baroque composer Michael Praetorius. He confirmed it. And at once my pain was gone and pleasing shivers ran down my spine when we shaked hands. While he examined me we talked about his ingenious ancester and the beautiful music he passed to all mankind.
So if you ever meet a doctor of urology ask him if he's a descendent of Michael Praetorius. He most certainly is. ;)
Certainly, a wonderful coincidence ;), but Latinizations of German surnames were all the fad in Renaissance/Baroque times. So your typical Praetorius is actually a Schulz/Schulze/Scholz etc., one of the most common German names, meaning mayor or sheriff.
@@th60of I lknow this very well. But the surname of this very doctor was Praetorius and not Schultheiss or something. And he knew that he was an descendant of the famous Michael Praetorius. And there was no need to lie to me.
@@zerotonic2659 Of course not, that wasn't what I implied. What I meant was that there are quite a few unrelated Praetoriuses around, some of them probably urologists, so there's no guarantee all of them can trace their ancestry back to Michael. Sorry about the misunderstanding!
These musicians have such an excellent feel for each other and the music they’re playing so beautifully.....ensemble playing at its best! And I can easily be transported back in time by the mellowness of the gut strings and the recorder, but the percussion is the most evocative. Absolutely lovely.
Thank you very much!
This particular Courante by Praetorius has put a smile on my face for over 50 years of my life. Thank you.
:)
Same here - since I played it as a teenager in our idiosyncratic music school in Temse!
@@gerdnonneman6551 The joy of music unites! I like ‘idiosyncratic.’ It sounds fun! All the best to you in Flanders.
One million views~Thanks, everyone!
I hate to tell you this, but about half of the views are me. Thanks for enriching my life.
These pieces have been mined for inspiration over the centuries. Thanks to you and others for preserving the original sounds for future generations!
The quality of the sound is so good too. Every instrument absolutely as clear as can be.
Beautiful music !
Came here by accident and stayed for the marvelous music.
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Me, too! 😃
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My kind of music pure and authentic .
A REACH FROM THE PAST
SO DEEPLY AFFECTS MY SOUL
MODERN RENDERING
Pure soul nourishment. Thank you.
Music to uplift and soothe ... thank you.
Such beautiful music touches me deeply !💟
wonderful historical performance. Michael Preatorius (Michael Schultheis) would be proud on you.
Sheer joy. Bless you all.
Y que viva la música preciosa del Barroco y del Clasicismo 😊
The golden glow of gut strings, the sudden sunlight of the recorder; a performance as satisfying as good wine. This is luxury.
Surely the messages you left would offer a solution from this lunacy,
a chance at a door opening, inviting me, lovingly from this nightmarish scene.
But they had all disappeared.., save one.
Quoth TheRaven
@@user-hf6go4se6m nevermore
@@Tom-dn9pk XD
Gut strings are the way to go, the sound is so good! unwounded are even better
@@tatalito gut strings cause animal suffering though. I can't get behind that, especially to create something as beautiful as music.
6:08 In all my years I never associated "Lo, How a Rose" as the Pavane from Terpsichore. I loved the steady percussion beat that keeps it moving at a nice strolling pace.
Back in the 60s I had a recording of these dances played by the early music consort of London with David Munroe. Always loved his work. We lost David way too soon.
Yes, David was quite amazing, we were all influenced by him.
Bravo from Spain!
Thank you from California
que viva España, y que viva per omnia 😊
This was played as my father walked me down aisle at my wedding in Los Angeles 46 years ago. I wore a Juliet gown in the style of the Italian High Renaissance. The music was a "gift" from a colleague and friend of my husband-to-be. An elderly Italian Monsigneur, also an Italian count, peeked in from the side of the church to catch the beautiful music. This is an wonderful indelible musical memory for me!
Wonderful. Brings tears of Joy to my eyes.
Thanks for the picturesquely told story. It sounds so appropriate for a wedding scene, and the dress you wore.
What an enchanting experience! I wish people of the modern era would appreciate and embrace such amazing and intriguing music like this, I am one of the children in the modern era, (born in 2004) and wish to pass this on and compose like minded music!
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As a young violinist i am so enthraled and in awe ,
in listening to your great classical music from 1800's love you guys 😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹
Ethereal, magnificent. The Greatest of Music. Thank you for the joy you provide in such measure as if descending from the heavens!
Part of my evening routine as I wind down is to pull up this beautiful video. What a lovely performance and kudos to the lady in turquoise. What versatility and skill.
:)
Beauté, élégance, distinction, intelligence du corps s'exprimant dans la danse, génie de la composition et talent de l'interprétation.
Souvenir d'un temps révolu et où les hommes d'aujourd'hui croient avoir touché à l'ultime.
I have greatly enjoyed Praetorius' music since Albert Petrak of WCLV - Cleveland first introduced me to this music by way of the Bourrée and I later obtained a performance by Collegium Terpsichore. Listening to this live performance just makes the experience the much fuller.
Purely delightful!
Thank you
Thank you Voices of Music for bringing such a fresh and beautiful sound to these lovely pieces. I love the warmth of this performance.
You are very welcome!
Absolutely beautiful! The quality of the sound is so good too. Every instrument absolutely as clear as can be.
It's 2 in the morning, and I could listen to this all day long.
Yes, me too.
I have loved this ever since I first heard it over 50 years ago!
Hanneke, I love you..., for your music. Greetings from Germany, the home of Michael Schutheis, called Praetorius 🤗
Very nice. The percussionist was amazing! I kept looking to see the other one before I realized that there was only one.
Exactly the same with me!
Peter Maund is an excellent musician, and has been working his percussion magic for many years....
Rick Marti the lutenist, David Tayler, played the glockenspiel. You can see it during that dance beside him. I do agree, though, that Peter Maund is fantastic.
Smile i put on my face upon hearing this majestic music quality :)
I love watching this group perform and the sounds they produce are wonderful.
What joy. Many thanks
How enchanting, delightful, uplifting! Happiness pure. 👍👏🌹
Many thanks
Very good playing and what a fine composition by M. Praetorius.
Thank you.
That's about as beautiful as it gets.
Thanks so much!
I just adore the music from this era, especially that of Michael Praetorius.
Chris Brown I don’t know much of artists from this era, can you suggest me some please ?
@@tinuvielrhubarbe3850 A lot is anonymous, but as a vihuela musician I can recommend Luys De Narvaes and Cristóbal de Morales.
A well known modern performer that does a lot of early music is Jordi Savall, so you're likely good if you try to find some of his performances.
Do keep in mind a lot of the written music by the composers was minimal and very hard to read, so different performances of the same piece can differ a lot. Often only a single part was written down, without specifying the pitch (there was no pitch standard yet) and if a performance has more than one instrument you can assume they added their own parts, to varying degrees of success. This video here is very well done, (and I can vouch for Jordi Savall), but you can be disappointed in occasion.
@@tinuvielrhubarbe3850 Try Heinrich Schütz and Johann Hermann Schein; both were contemporaries of Praetorius.
We agree.
Praetorius is better known as the author of the famous Syntagma Musicum in 3 volumes.
His music in fact is as good as that of his best contempories.
Still underestimated.
a true master
No words to describe the beauty of this music! THANK YOU!
Merci Beaucoup
très belle interprétation
Love this music: one of the best Xmas presents I EVER had was an LP called ‘Tanzmusik der Praetorius zeit’ (DG.) back in the late 1960s... a complete eye-opener...👍
I used to have that recording. I loved it. I was at uni studying to be a teacher at the time and music was one of my specialist subjects, particularly the Renaissance.
@@SusannahMacDonald One can still get it, on cd 😀
I have that, too, and it's ingrained in my memory. Love it.
Absolutely beautiful, I keep playing this over and over!
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When I listen to this makes me feel aways sun-shining feels
"Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" my favourite Christmas Traditional. MP rocks!
It remind me the same. In my youth in Protestant Church of southern of France. We had the same carol: " Et sur le sol durçi un frais jameau jailli".
Which is the translation of Micheal Weiss. Thank you Micheal. Live long time German and French friendship!!
It remind me the same. In my youth in Protestant Church of southern of France. We had the same carol: " Et sur le sol durçi un frais jameau jailli".
Which is the translation of Micheal Weiss. Thank you Micheal. Live long time German and French friendship!!
John, dear friend...I'm from Vienna /Austria by the way!🥂
@@michaelweis4756 : Funny! I didn't meant discriminating Austrian people and their great country, one of the light houses of culture and music. Lucky you with the Vienna New Year Concert!
John, I don't listen to Neujahrskonzert actually ... Walzers from Strauss or Supp`e are far too modern for my taste. I actually got stuck in mid 1600s- up to Haydn and partially Beethoven. And l Iove electric eclectic westcoast blues and Ethno. My music taste is weird just like the rest of me..🙃🙃🙃
discovered Michael Praetorius today!! Thanks~~
Welcome!
I have followed Voices of Music for years, from afar. They always delight and excite, it's fair to say. This fine recording is a great example of their gift to us all.
For those who especially like it, ""Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" is the pavane at 6:10. So very lovely, in this arrangement!
Thank you so much and Happy New Year!
This is perfection. More Terpsichore please.
what ecellent music.. executed with the same quality.. Bravi tutti!
Très jolie musique ancienne...
YES YES YES!!!! More Terpsichore!! :D
Oh what beautyeous notes thy musicke doth proclaime.
Ha ha, excellent and quite smart !
Truly magnificent, and puts me in another world!
Thank you. It was a fun set to play.
The best interpretation of Dances from Terpsichore! Thank you and greetings from Prague.
Thank you! 😊
Such discipline ! Only the leader tapping one foot !! I have played all these pieces many times, but never at this incredible standard. What a shame that only one piece gets dusted off and played regularly .. but only at Christmas.
If I had money, this is a band I'd support. I hope that there will be plenty of people out there who will support them. They are definitely worth supporting.
:)
An Absolute Delight. Beautiful All Round. A Wonderful Group. Grateful Thanks. Greetings From Scotland.
Very enjoyable. The most prominent sound of all is the tiny flute.
this kind of music sounds sooo goood and pure
thank you, and God Bless All of You.
Marvellous!
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People who like this kind of thing will find this is the kind of thing they like. Personally, I love it.
The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.
How laconic.
I’m not in the tautology club, I repeat; I am not in the tautology club.
@@davidjones5724 Are you sure you're not a member of the Department of Repetitive Redundancy Department, either? [grin!]
Troubleshooter125 I checked it out, and, then I checked out again, the more I checked it out the more I was convinced that it was the Department that was redundant. And besides, I was paraphrasing one of the greatest men that ever lived.
Beautiful set of dances by Michael Praetorius. The ensemble sounds lovely. It is a wonder we hear so little of this composer's repertoire these days.
Just spectacularly warm and thrilling, melodic music for the heart and soul! Thank you for the history and Renaissance - Baroque instrumentation !! ❤️
This came at the perfect time. I so needed to hear this beautiful music so well done!
Thanks, Gorman!
Truly marvelous!
This is just what I needed right now - like a good few others I see. Love the drumming!
What a vivid charming wonderful performance! Bravissimi!
Just lovely - and Hanneke's recorder has a beautiful mellow tone.
Absolutely beautiful and uplifting - just what I needed just now.❤️
I have this from years ago stacked somewhere in my mystery cupboard on good old vinyl
Very beautiful
Thank you again. A wonderful selection from Praetorius, played with your usual verve, precision, and vibrant spirit.
So wonderful and soothing. On the opposite end of the mindless drivel that passes for popular "music" these days. Perfect performance, too.
Agreed wholeheartedly..
There has never been a time when new music (especially pop music) wasn't considered bad.
@@YawpMusic I would not describe today's rap and hiphop as "new music" or even music at all. It is just run-off-the-mill noise, forgotten next week as it is replaced by another iteration of the same. Call me a snob 😀
An absolute treat! Couple of numbers I had not heard before (extra treats) so that is all good! I love that they all got the 'Praetorius Thing' and flaunt it.
I just want to get up and dance to this beautiful music!
Un grand bravo aux Voices of Music !
Nous vous remercions tellement :)
NO hay nada que traducir al anglosajón, por que el anglosajón no tiene la gracia del español para hacerse entender
Simply marvellous. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Another composer whom I knew of for only one piece of music. Live and learn. Thank you for this lovely music.
You're welcome!
Brilliant❤
Thank you
You're welcome
Beautiful - love it.
Thank you! 😊
This is WONDERFUL!!! Thanks!!! 💙💙💙💙💙🦩✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
You are so welcome
LOVE Terpischore!Beautiful dance music!
BRAVO! A wonderful perfomance
Many thanks!!
superb!!
Das Musick ist Sehr /Sher wunderbar..Danke
Heavenly! Thank you so much!
Our pleasure!
Stunning performance! Pure joy!
Amazing, what i needet now !
Oh my Lord just find this wonderful piece😍it brightens my day 💕thanks all for ur awesome performance 🥰I reckon if there r music in heaven it must be v similar to what u have played😘
Another perfect performance including warmth and richness. Gorgeous.
Thanks for listening.
I have the new London consort (Phillip Pickett) recording and also the one by Paul Odette and Rogers Covey Crump which has several sung numbers from the ancient airs and dances genre, including instrumental works (only a few by Praetorius) and it is just fabulous to “see” a live recorded performance bring it to life…and what life! Congratulations all…a wonderful rendition of these few movements from the suite.
Smooth and harmonious music. Love Terpsichore and these Voices of Music. GS
beautiful !
Thank you!
Une merveille!!!
One of my favourite composers! Thank you :)
Un vrai moment de grâce, pour nous extraire du stress ambiant... All the best to all of you
Merci!
Anglosajón anglosajón, ?que pasa con el Francés tan dulce y bonito? Parece que no tiene nada de orgullo de su propio idioma 😢
Enjoyed it, thanks for another great video 👍