Playing the saxophone The Cafe Trio grown to Octet down to Sextet

[Jeanette]

We had some great new pieces from @tenorviol and @chadders I love the range of music we play

Thanks guys

Jx

 

[brianr]

Ron, did you get a chance to play any of those madrigals?

 

[Jeanette]

Ron, did you get a chance to play any of those madrigals?

We played April is in my mistress' face 🙂


Thank you

Jx

 

[brianr]

We played April is in my mistress' face 🙂


Thank you

Jx

that one is lovely.

try the Pavanne. number 2. My favourite

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Baroque saxophone sounds like something for a Yorkshire woodwind repairer. "How didst tha baroque it then lad?"

Racist!

 

[Tenor Viol]

April is in my Mistress' Face is a madrigal by Thomas Morley. I have sung it numerous times over the years (bass part). It can be performed with a vocalist on the top line with the other lines taken by instruments, which was often done with madrigals. It dates from late in the reign of Elizabeth in the 1590s. Information about it is here . A performance with score is here. There are 'false relations' all over the place, especially in the sop line with F# and F naturals often occurring in the same bar.

 

[trimmy]

I have sung it numerous times over the years (bass part). It can be performed with a vocalist on the top line with the other lines taken by instruments,

We will have to try it with voice then 😉

 

[brianr]

especially in the sop line with F# and F naturals often occurring in the same bar.

Bloody jazzers, with their C blues scale.
Is there no stopping the useage of this scale.
I bet we can find examples of him "noodling" too if we look hard enough.

Its the work of the devil, I tell you

 

[Tenor Viol]

Harmonic clashes got very adventurous in late Renaissance (aka Tudor in England) polyphony. It was a particular feature of English music, although it was the continental composer Gesualdo who took it to extremes.
So jazz invented neither dissonance nor syncopation, it's just that the move to Baroque included harmonic simplification and a style of tune plus accompaniment became predominant.

 

[MandyH]

You snooze you lose 🙂

No one told me it was on! 🙁
I was probably busy in a field!! 😛

 

[Tenor Viol]

We will have to try it with voice then 😉

If it's in the right key we could try... Just had a look at my copy, it's in Dmin and top note is an F which I can do... but you might not like... 😉

 

[Tenor Viol]

We have played various items of early music, amongst our pieces. We have played an Almain, and last week a Pavan - which is a dance with 4 beats to a measure. I was thinking of arranging a Galliard, which has six beats and I think @trimmy could demonstrate the dance
And in case you're wondering, this is a Pavan
Complete the set, an Almain

 

[Tenor Viol]

Been busy so here is a Galliard - The Marie-golde. Managed to get alto 2 part in the right place first time (sort of). Again, there's an mp3 midi file to give you an idea of what it sounds like. I've set it at minim = 150, but I think it's too slow.

 

[trimmy]

I think @trimmy could demonstrate the dance

Easy peasy

 

[Tenor Viol]

Easy peasy

J would be The Presence, whom you have to acknowledge, but you must not look at them directly unless commanded by The Presence to so do.... your gaze may not fall on The Presence

 

[trimmy]

I'll keep my eyes wide shut

 

[Targa]

I'll keep my eyes wide shut

You'll be safe if you use your sax as a mirror.

 

[trimmy]

View: https://youtu.be/u1wzeAiDtEs

 

[nigeld]

Been busy so here is a Galliard - The Marie-golde. Managed to get alto 2 part in the right place first time (sort of). Again, there's an mp3 midi file to give you an idea of what it sounds like. I've set it at minim = 150, but I think it's too slow.

Looks good. I shall steal that for our quartet/quintet if that is OK.
I think the midi file has crotchet at 150, which I agree is too slow, but minim at 150 seems quite quick, which is presumably what it should be.
If you export the file as MusicXML, then it can be imported into Sibelius, and presumably any other editor.

 

[nigeld]

@tenorviol - you could put the Galliard into the Cafe resources section.