Music

[pate]

"Smiling Faces Sometimes" -- 1971
(by) The Undisputed Truth

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That is one of my favorite songs, if I was forced to make a Top Ten list right now that one would be in there.  I imagine that would be my personal hell, trying to make a musical Top Ten list.

It is times like this that I wish this thread was a play-list somewhere that I could listen to.  I also wonder how many times certain songs have been referenced/linked to multiple times.  *sigh* I suppose if no one gets around to it by the time I am retired and bored I will do it, but not today.

Here's one I was reminded of at work when discussing what ever became of the trend of naming bands after places (I think it started with a discussion of the failure of the "super-group" Asia).  Boston, Chicago, Asia, Kansas, Missouri &c... (I know I am forgetting some, but it seemed to be a trend at some point):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPmmZRjrsNQ

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dcf-0oHtCM

Jake Wells "Roll Like Thunder"

[pate]

I have probably already posted this in hear:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEgVfC8zEw

Zero Seven "Home"

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4C365LbQ

Lorn "Acid Rain"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6Cu6PAlpo

Lorn "No Safety On A Body"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJQWgkXZl40

Lorn "Batty's Theme"

I find these deliciously disturbing, perhaps not the best offerings from Lorn but the videos, mm tasty.  Tipped off by a friend on these guys.

[Meister_000]

. . .  I imagine that would be my personal hell, trying to make a musical Top Ten list.

Hey thar Pate! Couldn't be done in 10 so you're off the hook! 
Won't Get Fooled Again | The Who 1971

https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q

[Meister_000]

The Cure | A Forest 1980

https://youtu.be/V0bjxgaAhL8

[SredniVashtar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZEqgnhQFI

This has everything, including Gandalf playing the timps.

[Meister_000]

This has everything, including Gandalf playing the timps.

Good morning SV. (Please take this as no slight, but rather a follow-up which happened to evolve when one thing led to the next). After rooting around on Youtube I came upon this other rendition, performed by the large "English Chamber Orchestra". God bless Jordi but I don't think he's capture the pomp and scale or volume (including rockets and 100 cannon!) of the original outdoor performance attended by some 12,000 and comissioned by your King George II in 1747. This other vid also contains exensive history notes much or all of which I'm going to copy over (below). This second version still sounds period-authentic enough and certainly captures more of the majesty of the work and performance which one might imagine, expect and hope for first from the composer himself and then concidering the king himself is making a statement, throwing the party, and footing the bill (only the best).



https://youtu.be/i7vJ2UFbeXA



George Frideric Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (1749), composed at the behest of King George II of Great Britain for the great fireworks display celebrating the signing of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, which concluded the War of the Austrian Succession on October 18, 1748.


0:00 Overture
8:24 Bourrée
9:55 La paix
13:42 La Réjouissance
17:25 Minuet I & II
(Performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Raymond Leppard.)


The terms of the treaty were largely negotiated between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of France, with the other powers, chief among them Austria, Prussia and Spain, following their lead. The treaty affirmed the right of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to the Habsburg thrones and recognized the gains of the rising Kingdom of Prussia, which had, with France and Spain, opposed the Habsburg monarchy and Great Britain. Although the position of Britain in the struggle was arguably less than paramount, it was decided that a great public fireworks celebration should be conducted to commemorate the peace. Handel composed his "Music for the Royal Fireworks" after being commissioned to provide "suitable music" for this celebration, to be held on April 27, 1749 in London in Green Park, by St. James's.

The "Music for the Royal Fireworks" was first performed publicly six days before the great fireworks display, on April 21, 1749, when a full rehearsal of the music was held at Vauxhall Gardens. However, Handel himself objected to this performance. It is assumed his objection was due to logistics, but was more due to his promise to repeat the music for a charity concert at the Foundling Hospital four weeks after the main display. The Vauxhall performance was publicly advertised, and would thus be widely attended, so Handel feared it would lessen interest in subsequent performances.
At any rate, over twelve thousand people, each paying two shillings and six pence, rushed en-masse for the Vauxhall rehearsal, causing a three-hour traffic jam. The Westminster Bridge was closed for subsidence repairs, so London Bridge was severely overcrowded. Carriages were forced across with great inconvenience, and there were reports of scuffles among the footmen. The rehearsal itself was accompanied by an 18 cannon salute, conducted with powder that had been delivered in a batch of 36 pounds.

Against George II's wishes, Handel insisted upon including strings in the orchestra for the main celebration. Renowned designer Florentine Servandoni was summoned to construct what was dubbed an enormous "machine" as the centerpiece. A great wood and canvas structure measuring over 400 feet long and 100 feet high, it was constructed in the manner of "a magnificent Doric Temple" and executed in the trompe-l'oeil style. It was complete with a triumphal arch topped with a grand Sun, bearing the latin epigraph "VIVAT REX" in letters of "bright fire" which were to burn for five hours. The structure featured impressive side pavilions and elaborate decoration.
On the great day, the King and his entourage toured the "machine," presenting purses to its operatives while the entire band played, commencing at 6 o'clock. The beginning of the fireworks display went well enough, as "The Gentleman's Magazine" vol. 19 (April, 1749), describes:


"At half an hour after eight, the works were begun by a single rocket from before the library, then the cannon within the chevaux de frize were fired...101 pieces of cannon placed on Constitution-hill, were discharged; after which a great number of rockets of different sorts, balloons, &c. were discharged, to surprising perfection."
However, catastrophe ensued when the great "machine" misfired and burst into intense flame. The left pavilion of the structure was most affected, and according to the "Description II" of the celebration, published afterwards, the contrivance "burnt with great Fury." Two of the arches smoldered to the ground, and the whole building was only saved when carpenters cast away another two arches and fire engines were brought in to suppress the flames. The stress was apparently great, because another misfortune followed when Florentine Servandoni threw a tantrum and drew his sword on Charles Frederick, Comptroller of the event. Servandoni was imprisoned but released the next day after tendering his apologies. In the end, the great sun, "32 feet in Diameter," the literal high-light of the arrangement, survived the disaster to fulfill expectations.
Handel's orchestration begins with an Overture suited for the royal progress across St. James's park, the middle portion of which relaxes and turns toward B minor. Then, a Bourrée for woodwind and string follows, moving into a siciliano entitled "La Paix," which splendidly reflects the eighteenth-century view of peace as a country pastorale. The piece then moves to the brilliant and varied "Réjouissance," and finally, is concluded with two Minuets, finishing off the music in an august atmosphere.

[SredniVashtar]

Good morning SV. (Please take this as no slight, but rather a follow-up which happened to evolve when one thing led to the next). After rooting around on Youtube I came upon this other rendition, performed by the large "English Chamber Orchestra". God bless Jordi but I don't think he's capture the pomp and scale or volume (including rockets and 100 cannon!) of the original outdoor performance attended by some 12,000 and comissioned by your King George II in 1747. This other vid also contains exensive history notes much or all of which I'm going to copy over (below). This second version still sounds period-authentic enough and certainly captures more of the majesty of the work and performance which one might imagine, expect and hope for first from the composer himself and then concidering the king himself is making a statement, throwing the party, and footing the bill (only the best).

Thanks for that. Leppard is rather neglected these days, but he was a big deal back when period instruments weren't much of a thing. I enjoyed it overall, but I would have preferred slightly more excitement at times (in the Rejouissance, particularly) rather than grandeur, but it just depends on what your taste happens to be when it comes to the baroque. It certainly has more of a sense of occasion than the Savall though.

[Hautex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7nJv3IDJkA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrKjgxcvF0
This is an old friend since our school days....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMOMHOjF3Y

[K_Dubb]

Roughly contemporary (1751) French fireworks music.  Meant for the theater and astonishingly illustrative -- cannon salute, feux d'artifice, shouts of vive le roi in the swaggering, very French march at the end.  Really forward-looking with motoric rhythms and descriptive gestures that anticipate Stravinsky's.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GajRMy3dr4c

[SredniVashtar]

Roughly contemporary (1751) French fireworks music.  Meant for the theater and astonishingly illustrative -- cannon salute, feux d'artifice, shouts of vive le roi in the swaggering, very French march at the end.  Really forward-looking with motoric rhythms and descriptive gestures that anticipate Stravinsky's.

Thanks, that was new to  me. I see what you mean about Stravinsky, those abrupt changes in time signature sounded like the Rite occasionally. Rameau's a pain, though; he gives you something like that, but when you listen to a whole opera you'll get a few nice bits of ballet music surrounded by oceans of recitative.

[pate]

To have a thyme masheen and a half-pound, guinea, or 2s6p (damn Anglish systeme d'argent) enTrance fee to attend the fete, surely a visually prophetic extravagance (what with the "masheen" catching alight under the fading Anglish Imperial Sun...).

I'd like to share two musical interludes (with visual accompaniment) that are vaguely orchestral in the modern way.  Apparently, made by two Anglish dudes.  No resemblance to our own two Anlish dudes (+ nobody...) intended:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjEwYTG6uU

Orbital "Never"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGM1V6lCgM

Orbital "New France"

[K_Dubb]

Thanks, that was new to  me. I see what you mean about Stravinsky, those abrupt changes in time signature sounded like the Rite occasionally. Rameau's a pain, though; he gives you something like that, but when you listen to a whole opera you'll get a few nice bits of ballet music surrounded by oceans of recitative.

Oh do I know what you mean!  I've spent hours editing them down to something listenable.  Savall has a beautiful set of suites, though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=012UXFhBlow

[Big Chicken]

Had some swinging times out on the rock back in the day Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w

[Meister_000]

Eye Candy

[Meister_000]

Antoine Forqueray, Fr., 1747 | Paolo Pandolfo
(7-string Viola da Gamba soloist)
Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë
Pieces de viole: Suite No. 2 in G Major: "La Leclair"


Note this "drivin" rhythm -- possibly a 1st? This instrument IS a "bowed guitar" (literally). Also hear the bright plucky strummed 5-course baroque guitar in the accompaniment.
[Img; French illustration, 1679: guitar, bass viola da gamba (see frets) and harpsichord - Louis Licherie,  L’accord des Nations]

https://youtu.be/r7oJ3ACc6_o

[Meister_000]

Telemann | 1730-50?  Quintet, string concerto, chamber music, TWV 44:1
"Sinfonia Spirituosa" in D Major, for 2 Violins, Viola, and Basso Continuo.
[note "organ-esque" effect (vibratoless sustained swells of bowed chords {or diads/harmonic intervals/double-stops} in low bass register) @ min. 1:36 - 2:00 ]

https://youtu.be/Z3yMHVSsx7o

[bateman]

https://youtu.be/zLQ1Bvm7SFo

[gabrielle]

https://youtu.be/PyP3g6oiQck
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[JesusJuice]

Let's get right to the source. No cheap imitations for me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWA8t0pZsnM

[Meister_000]

{Bittersweet Symphony}

Thanx Gabie, almost forgot that one (just Amazoned the mp3 -- wasn't sure you could still get it after the lawsuit stuff). And this was a rare time I'm glad the lyrics were overlain, never caught them all, like it even more now. That song did stand out amoung the realtive wasteland of most "alt rock" of it's day. (Thanks again)

[Meister_000]

Let's get right to the source. No cheap imitations for me.
{Andrew Loog Oldham orchestral version}

. . . which in turn, it's claimed, ultimately derives (by big stretch) from "a theme" contained in  the Stones 1965 hit "The Last Time"  -- but only if you slow it _waaaaay_ down (for starters)!
[pretty good live version here, a bit slow and lower energy, but . ]


https://youtu.be/RuBWeHyOP_s

[Rix Gins]

https://youtu.be/sxIoitgXx9g

[Meister_000]

[Lori Anderson]

thanx Rix, never heard/saw that one. Her name alone though, and Superman, takes me back, helps me recall the greater pool which made-up the early 80s scene. So grateful to have caught that Last Wave of time-capsule-worthy music-centric culture (it seems to have been).

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8

https://youtu.be/PyP3g6oiQck
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Me likey!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6sNFMTJvc

dig

[pate]

Soma thymes ET massages:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9Vzb6R_58

eek!

[Luka Megurine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiS7e94OG-8

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2etXORS5S0

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi3eBvOWSXQ

The level of awesome in that rendition/cover is unapproachable!

I prosit flautists the wo-hurl'd o'er...