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My shot at "murdering" Biber's Rosary Sonata 14 ...peace (",)V

Tuned here (approximately) to the very low French Baroque Pitch of A=392 Hz

Vivaldi's Hunt

0:37 the violin imitates the call of a hunting horn and is answered back by another hunting horn to signal that live game is found

0:52 the violinist rides side saddle and the hunt begins

1:37 gun shots / muskets are fired and the game is pursued

2:11 the violinists pluck their strings (pizzicato) – the sound of gunshots

2:16 violin bows as symbolic “arrows” sticking out on the back of the beast

2:32 the beasts flee as more gunshots and arrows etc are fired

2:39 the agony & cries of the fallen beast

3:01 the cadenza (a musical punctuation – a period) represents the (stylized) demise of the beast

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III
I cacciator alla nov'alba à caccia
Con corni, Schioppi, e canni escono fuore
Fugge la belua, e Seguono la traccia;

IV
Già Sbigottita, e lassa al gran rumore
De'Schioppi e canni, ferita minaccia
Languida di fuggir, mà oppressa muore.

[III
The hunters at dawn go to the hunt,
with horns and guns and dogs they sally forth,
the beasts flee, their trail is followed.

IV
Already dismay'd and exhausted, from the great noise
of guns and dogs, threaten'd with wounds,
they flee, languishing, and die, cowering.]

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So much of the early Baroque I never knew about.

Nicola Matteis (c. mid 1600s - after 1714)

Trio Sonnerie
Monica Huggett - baroque violin
Andrew Lawrence-King - baroque organ

Baroque Tuning A=415 Hz

::::::::Nicola Matteis by Miss Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti

Miss Beyer belongs to the Chin-Off school of violin technique. She studied Baroque Violin with Chiara Banchini among others.

Jean-Ferry Rebel (1666 - 1747) - Chaconne

Baroque Orchestra of Granada
PETER ZAJICEK, Concertmaster
DARIO MORENO, Clave y Dirección Artística

:::::: Dietrich Buxtehude Violin Sonata ::::::

D

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam :::32:::


There was a Door to which i found
no Key:

There was a Veil past which i could
not see:

Some little Talk awhile of Me and Thee

There seem'd - and then no more of
Thee and Me.

::: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus :::
:::::::::::: Face Down :::::::::::::

Francesco Venturini (1675 - 1745)


Sonata II en la mineur

I. Concerto à 10 instruments


La Cetra
David Plantier, baroque violin


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