#Pro Cantione Antiqua

[clamarcap]

Who's the fool, now?

Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582 - c1633): Martin said to his man, partsong a 4 voci (da Deuteromelia, 1609, n. 16). Pro Cantione Antiqua. Martin said to his man   (fie, man, fie!),  Martin said to his man   (who’s the foole, now?),  Martin said to his man: Fill thou the cup and I the can.  Thou hast well drunken, man!  Who’s the foole, now? I see a sheep shearing corn And a couckold blow his horn. I…

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#Mark Brown #Pro Cantione Antiqua #Thomas Ravenscroft

[queerprayers]

Johanna's essential holy week albums <3

The Prince of Egypt soundtrack (obviously)

Lent / Liturgical Folk

The Gregorian Lent and Easter / Pro Cantione Antiqua

Golgotha / Poor Bishop Hooper

Dear Wormwood / The Oh Hellos (especially "Caesar")

Music Inspired By The Story / compilation

Lent at Ephesus & Tenebrae at Ephesus / Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

Music of the Passion of Jesus Christ / The London Fox Players

St. Matthew Passion / J.S. Bach (lyrics & translation here)

Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack (flawed but beloved; all the casts have their pros and cons so I'll leave it up to you.)

This isn't an album but my favorite hymn is "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and I had to mention it

addition: Good Friday Eastern Sacred Songs / Fairuz (thank you marymagdalenestan my favorite instagram user)

edit: forgot to add! put yours in the tags/reblogs/replies! no judgement just more music in the world!

#i'm sorry i'm posting this on friday. oops #links are to spotify but i assume they're available other places #you can see so much of me in this post wow #grew up lutheran with classical musicians & only discovered contemporary religious music as a teenager #had a middle school francesca battistelli phase. broadway fan. #re-fell in love with choral/chant music in the past few years

[landrysg]

A Mass for the day:

Filipe de Magalhães (c. 1571–1652), "Missa de Beata Virgine"

Nicely performed and recorded by Pro Cantione Antiqua (London)

#youtube #magalhaes mass

[mycosylivingroom]

#medieval #medieval core #christmas 🎄 #mycosylivingroom #Spotify

[lesser-known-composers]

Giles Farnaby - Construe my meaning ·

Pro Cantione Antiqua

#Giles Farnaby #english composer #Youtube

[beauxartsnyc]

[naktigonis]

Hi naktigonis! I was wondering if you enjoy using leitmotif in your music? Do you like to put references in your work? Thanks!

yes, actually! i love using musical motifs to establish the presence of themes, places or characters in the soundtrack. much like writing prose, writing music is another method of creating a coherent narrative. the only difference is, you read the musical narrative with your ears! B)

i'm about to launch into a lengthy ramble about the use of motifs in the Deepwoken OST, and also in my other musical work. i'll also ramble about musical-cultural references. buckle the hell up.

there's a TL;DR at the bottom if you're not interested in reading this wall of text >:)

if you listen closely to the currently released Deepwoken OST tracks, you can already hear some hints of musical motifs being offered. the first and most obvious one, of course, is the main theme of Deepwoken. this melody has become so emblematic of the game, that i've basically ended up incorporating it into almost every track within the OST. and although i didn't have a single set meaning for this leitmotif when i started haphazardly slapping it everywhere in the soundtrack, i think the melody symbolises a deep connection to history, a defiant hope (listen to the piano part in Contour 3 - doesn't it sound so hopeful?), and the inevitability of fate. though, i do also like to think that the real meaning of this motif is ultimately up to the player. this motif is Deepwoken. what does Deepwoken mean to you? that's what the melody really means.

but that's just one song. yet, the main theme does feature in many tracks: if you listen closely to Solivagant at the 1:32 timestamp, you can actually hear the main theme of the game slowly play out! it builds up, takes a long contemplative pause (about 20 seconds or so, if i remember correctly!), and then unravels.

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on the same song, there is another leitmotif directly after the fragment discussed above. at the very end of Solivagant, around the 2:06 timestamp, you can hear this melody play.

that's the Etrean theme! this motif represents the island and kingdom of Etrea, the city of Etris, and the Etreans themselves. essentially, whenever you hear this melody within a song in the soundtrack, you can expect an Etrean presence in that area of the game.

and if you listen closely in other (currently publicly unreleased) tracks, you can hear their motif too - like in this theme for an area next to Etris, or this theme for a certain place directly related to the Kingdom of Etrea.

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but the Etrean motif isn't all that common outside of areas of Etrean influence. a motif that is a lot more common throughout the game, and is in fact an elaborate reference to something from real life culture, is the motif of death.

this motif features almost everywhere in the Deepwoken OST. it's a melody that originates from a mediaeval Christian religious hymn about the apocalypse, and the Day of Judgement. it has been used since around the mid-19th century by various composers to signify death. if you're a devout Catholic of sorts, a fan of the Youtube channel Sideways, or are generally trained in the history of musical compositions, you may already know what i'm talking about here.

that's right. i'm talking about the Dies Irae. no, not the symphonic rendition by Mozart, nor the symphonic rendition of another part of the same chant by Mozart. i am instead talking about this:

vigilant eyes reading the full lyrics of the hymn may have noticed that the text seems a bit familiar. and if you've listened to Contour 1, you've already seen part of it! there is a part of one of the chant's verses in Contour 1's description: "Lacrimosa dies illa, / Qua resurget ex favílla / Iudicandus homo reus". or, in English, that'd be: "Tearful [will be] that day, / on which from the glowing embers will arise / the guilty man who is to be judged".

unlike what many have theorised, 'lacrimosa' isn't some sort of lore character. it's just a part of a hymn's lyrics, a somewhat esoteric reference to the Day of Judgement and the apocalypse. the Dies Irae hymn has fascinated me for years with its symbolism and meaning, and given those factors, i felt it was only appropriate to incorporate it into the musical narrative of a world such as Deepwoken. B)

i initially wanted to provide more than one example of the Dies Irae motif being used in the soundtrack. unfortunately, i've woven the melody of it so deeply into most of the OST, that it's difficult to extract a clean patch of it from any song! most of the time the motif is either slow and prolonged, or is incorporated into another melody very closely. so, i felt like pulling the motif from such tracks would reveal a bit too much.

so instead, i bring only one example: the motif being played in the general sailing track of the game.

you might expect that hearing the Dies Irae in the game would signify some sort of immediate danger being present. that is sometimes true. however, only sometimes. in truth, the motif is almost always there in the background, perhaps even more often than the main theme of the game. keep an ear out for the Dies Irae in the soundtrack when you play, and unmistakeably, you will almost always find it. it represents death, danger, a looming sense of doom, hanging overhead like a dark cloud. forever, and always.

to wax a bit philosophical, death is a kind of ending, isn't it? i think in some cases in the soundtrack, the Dies Irae also signifies an ending. nothing is infinite - all things must come to pass.

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...wowee that got sombre fast!

on a much lighter note, although this is not a motif that appears anywhere as frequently as the main motif, or the motif of death, it is still one of my favourites. this right here is the motif of the mysterious 'hive' you may have seen mentioned a few times.

and, just for fun, here's a little instrument demo test i did recently with this motif. here i am testing the Sulphur Wind mixer preset i made myself some time ago. here's before the preset, and here's after the preset. pardon my poor playing!

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as for my own personal work outside of Deepwoken, i don't use continuous leitmotifs to establish a narrative per se (it wouldn't really make sense in the case of separate albums or tracks), but i do tend to recycle melodies from time to time. more often than not, i do this due to some sort of connection between the track that a melody originated from, and the track a melody is being recycled for.

for example, my old D&D character Sophion F. Umbassa had a character theme, which was basically just an old recycled melody called 'Faustus' Theme'. 'Faustus' here references Goethe's Faust, a 19th century German play where a scholar sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for the knowledge of the world. in parallel, my D&D character Sophion Faustus Umbassa entered the servitude of the archdevil Asmodeus in pursuit of greater power:

or, alternatively, my currently most popular track Ex Nihilo also uses a reused melody! in this case, there is a symbolic, motif-like connection here, in addition to an external reference. the original melody was called 'Lullaby of Chaos', and it was repurposed for a song called 'Ex Nihilo', the ex nihilo here referencing creatio ex nihilo, or the creation of the world from nothingness. in ancient Greek cosmogony, the void from which the universe was born was called chaos. so all in all, it all checks out. B)

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wow, i really just rambled for ages, huh. whoops!

well, i suppose to give a TL;DR answer to your question: HELL YES i enjoy using leitmotifs in my music, and HELL YES i put references in my work. hope that answers it! B)

#ask box #anon ask #questions #behind the scenes #naktigonis.mp3 #naktigonis.txt #composition

[cianishere]

“His journey was nearly over. He was bound for his new home. He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec’s turn to bring out the hero in him. He knew what the call was, and what his answer must be. They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions’ who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.”

into the greenwood

{listen}

i. hallelujah junction - john adams, gerard bouwhuis | ii. green arrow - yo la tengo | iii. a cornish young man - jackie oates | iv. the boy with the thorn in his side - the smiths | v. symphonic dances from ‘west side story’: somewhere (adagio)  - leonard berstein | vi. courage - villagers | vii. as it was - hozier | viii. la mer - charles trenet | ix. mine - the 1975 | x. the seasons, op. 37a: v. may, starlit night - pyotr iliych tchaikovsky | xi. my lighthouse - villagers | xii. curls - bibio | xiii. holy, holy, holy - sufjan stevens | xiv. alan - perfume genius | xv. the ground - ola gjeilo, tenebrae | xvi. waltz in a flat major, op. 69, no. 1 - frédéric chopin | xvii. the last rose of summer - james griffet, pro cantione antiqua

#finally made a post for the second one!!! #this playlist has been sitting in my spotify for nearly a year but ive done it #ive finished it #thats a lie im gonna be continously adding to it but its finished enough for a post #i dunno man this shit really gets me #somewhere is honestly a fucking banger #and we all know wss belongs to the gays #anyway i hope someone enjoys this #either way its for my own personal fulfillment but still #maurice #maurice 1987 #maurice em forster #em forster #maurice hall #alec scudder #west side story #hozier #villagers #the 1975 #tchaikovsky #perfume genius #chopin #sufjan stevens

[churchofsatannews]

Vox Satanae - Episode 422 - 163 Minutes - Week of January 14 2019

Vox Satanae – Episode 422 – 163 Minutes – Week of January 14 2019

This week we hear anonymous works as well as works by Jacob Obrecht, John Dowland, Johann Pezel, František Jiránek, Niccolò Paganini, Alexis Contant, Don Gillis, and Guillaume Connesson with performances by Mala Punica, Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner, Nigel North, The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit, Collegium Marianum, Jana Semerádová, Kristóf Baráti, The North German Radio…

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#Alexis Contant #classical instrumental music #classical music #classical vocal music #Don Gillis #František Jiránek #Jacob Obrecht #Johann Pezel #John Dowland #magister gene #Niccolò Paganini #radio free satan #vox satanae

[eliasmbvukuta]

[lonepiper5758]

Thanks for the tag @thecrazyexfangirl​  

Rules: put your music on shuffle, list the first ten songs, then tag ten people.

Music Prima - Official Bransle

Ghost of the Robot - Go Luck Yourself

Early Consort of Music - Trumpets

Pastance - Ochi dolenti mie

Pro Cantione Antiqua - Alleluia Pasllat

Michael Giacchino, Star Trek OST - Nice to Meld You

Mike Oldfield - Amarok

Murray Gold, Doctor Who Season 5 OST - A Troubled Man

Musica Prima - Bear Dance 

Maddy Prior - The God of Abraham Praise

I wanted to fudge this - but I’ve been honest. Half these tracks are medieval tunes. I swear medieval music doesn’t represent 50% of the music on my phone. It’s alway fun to see what music people listen to.  I’ve actually found some good stuff following up on things others listen to. :)

Tagging if you want to. Do or do not as you wish :D

@theysangastheyslew @doyouevenhavetoask @haganenobeato @ladywiltshire @izumiicurtis @kyxshi @onceandalwaysenglishmajor

#not fma #music tag #lone but not lonely

[capsulas]

"Missa Puisque j'ay perdu, for 4 Voices: Gloria" por Orlande de Lassus, Pro Cantione Antiqua .

Xbox Games - Gears 5

#IFTTT #Spotify #Missa Puisque j'ay perdu #for 4 Voices: Gloria #Orlande de Lassus #Pro Cantione Ant

[sinmusica]

Missa Puisque j'ay perdu, for 4 Voices: Gloria por Orlande de Lassus, Pro Cantione Antiqua publicado en el álbum DHM Splendeurs: Lassus: Musica Die Donum/Lauda Sion Salvatorem. Puedes escuchar más música en Top 100 Global de Apple Music.

#IFTTT #Spotify #Missa Puisque j'ay perdu #for 4 Voices: Gloria #Orlande de Lassus #Pro Cantione Ant

[radiofreesatan]

Vox Satanae - Episode #351

Vox Satanae – Episode #351

Vox Satanae – Episode 351 – 165 Minutes – Week of 10 July 2017

This week we hear works by William Cornysh, William Mundy, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Johann Hummel, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Bernard van Dieren, and William Bolcom with performances by James Griffett, John Elwes, Brian Etheridge, David Thomas, Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno…

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#Bernard van Dieren #Charles-Valentin Alkan #Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre #Florian Leopold Gassmann #Johann Hummel #Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla #William Bolcom #William Cornysh #William Mundy

[lesser-known-composers]

John Ward - The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 19, Retire, My Troubled Soul

Conductor: Geoffrey Mitchell Ensemble: Pro Cantione Antiqua

#John Ward #Youtube

[soypunk]

#I love this album and all its relatable song titles #audio #pro cantione antiqua