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Great way to activate the brain first thing in the morning

Breathtaking! what a privilege to have stumbled upon this piece. youtu.be/Mx0kk3lv-FQ

(...) The composition is based on the partimen or in French jeu-parti (plural jeux-partis) of the 12th and 13th century, a genre of Occitan and old French poetry composed between troubadours/trobairitz. (...)

(...) It is a genre in which one poet presents a dilemma in the form of a question and the two debate the answer, each taking up a different side. Some 200 jeux-partis survive, about half of them with music. (...)

The title Alamanda is derived from Alamanda de Castelnau, an Occitan trobairitz (c.1160 - c.1223). (...) youtu.be/47KxvwPHPMs

This piece is one of the most beautiful pieces of the entire Renaissance. It is also a compositional tour-de-force. The top four voices imitate the lower four voices five notes higher two bars (measures) later.

The entire piece is an exact 8 ex 4 canon at the octave! In addition there is a cantus firmus embedded in the fabric. Such tenderness - it sounds to me like a lullaby!

Where has this heavenly piece been all my life? Thank God I have (at 78) at last caught up with it.

He and his friend/mentor Josquin Des Prés were 50 years before Tallis and nonetheless as masterly at polyphonic music youtu.be/_hZHKKD5ahk

When we were all beginner pianists we all played this piece at some point :>

Anyone else still here listening in 1850?

(...) Yes, the second one is also a C#, because the accidentals apply within the entire measure. (...)

Back in the days before the Internet, radio and sound recordings, the only ways people can access a piece of music is through live performances or from a piece of sheet music that they'd learn to play at home. (...)

the trills are in really weirdly placed spots

I can still hear my grandma scolding me everytime I hit the wrong key

This was the ringtone on my very first cell phone nokia 1610 :D

it was discovered in te 1970's that this piece was written by Christian Petzold

I think I like the music or not?I cannot decide which one.

it was Christian Petzold (or Pezold) who wrote this and the companion piece, Minuet in G minor, and they were merely collected in [Anna Magdalena Bach]'s yearbook. youtu.be/p1gGxpitLO8