Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s mysterious enharmonic passage

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Soprano: Alice Borciani
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Dang, this was such a great video. Great performance and great research!

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@adam I hope big music theory channel can help small but good quality. This kind theory is nearly impossible popular, but also hard to get even in university.

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Time to play an enharmonic version of The Lick

[@Tabu11211]

I keep on bumping into you when I least expect.

[@kipling1957]

All praise to the soprano hitting those enharmonic notes!

[@adamabele785]

The human voice can do amazing things with some practice. Somehow for the singer, it is just a glissando between C and D cut into pieces, but you need to be able to imagine where the to place the notes precisely and that is a thing that needs training.

[@bobaldo2339]

Lovely notes!

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Lovely singing, she sounds great.

[@EmdrGreg]

It sounds to me that Alicia (sp?) hit those notes with utter accuracy. Amazing, and very beautiful.

[@Thejhansiway]

teacher: You were flat! Me: um, it was an Enharmonic choice. please take it up with Cavalieri.

[@rogermoore27]

Haa!

[@yuvalne]

Listening to such old music using compositional tools modern composers are only now rediscovering... Incredible.

[@renderizer01]

Enharmonic music, as presented here, is basically microtonal music. And while microtonality is indeed a device that some modern composers have made - and are making - use of, it's been an integral part of many traditional forms of music since ancient times (remember that he referenced the ancient Greek genera). Music from Greece (especially Crete), the Middle East, Turkey and India (among many others) - they're all making use of microtonal scale systems, of which our 'Western' (tempered) scales are merely a very small subset.

[@creamabdul-jabbar]

@@renderizer01 west african music too, and american music with african roots.

[@josephsummer777]

I didn’t expect the passage to be played with the microtonal components. KUDOS to the performers for accomplishing this.

[@BookOfFaustus]

Using the only enharmonic organ in the world though. Pretty cool

[@JohannesKellerCembalo]

@@BookOfFaustus Yes, it is a privilege to have access to this instrument indeed!

[@brianbuch1]

Now it's possible using synthetic instruments to have a recreation of an enharmonic organ without all the mechanical complications. This would make such music available to a wider range of performers. (and audiences) .

[@electric7487]

​@@brianbuch1 There's an alternative keyboard layout known as the Bosanquet-Wilson layout that is isomorphic and makes possible keyboard instruments that are not limited to 12-tone well or equal temperaments.

[@JethroCombate]

9:32 9:32 9:32 To those who want to keep repeating the enharmonic passage, here you go!

[@BlueMeeple]

Thank you! Just adding the exact part where the magic happens for myself: 9:45 9:45 9:45

[@johnwinward2421]

I could listen to that all day.

[@LazlosPlane]

I didn't want to hear it the FIRST time....

[@andresdaniel6711]

It's so satisfying!

[@XistoKente]

9:45 The build-up to the final note is so piercing, it almost hurts! But when it's finally hit, it feels rewarding and soothing.

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I cried. No less.

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​@@Doeff8 your emotions do not matter.

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@@Whatismusic123 Oh, but they do. You as a person don't matter, if you deny the essence of emotions for others.

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@@Doeff8 keep living in a fantasy, never to understand life and your worthlessness. There is no "essense of emotions" there is merely religion and delusion surrounding a biological tool.

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@@Whatismusic123 Stop using drugs and drinking too much.

[@ArthurSieg]

Fascinating! As soon as the singer hits the enharmonic chromatic note, I completely lose my sense of the tonality. The final resolution comes as a wonderful surprise. I would love to hear a complete recording of this piece with the microtonal ending.

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Yeah, I noticed that when I heard it too. Super odd sensation. That first note hits and, even when that last note resolved, it took my brain a second to follow actually let it feel complete and in tune.

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Natheniel Becken hahaha same

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i find myself in the same predicament

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Yes. Same.

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[@yugandali]

I know little about music theory, but those notes tingled my teeth.

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yes, very nice musical notation of bitterness

[@keithbray9416]

Every video I watch just makes me even more enthusiastic about renaissance music. MICROTONES!? YESSSSS

[@robappleby583]

Fascinating. It's notable that the final cadential passage in the organ is much more elaborate in the enharmonic version, to drive home the music's arrival at the tonic after its long enharmonic pilgrimage.

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What an interesting episode! Alice has a wonderful voice.

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Alice YOU ROCK it was amazing to hear you nail that part!!!

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ME TOO !

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Idem

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Same

and me!

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and me

[@Doeff8]

That enharmonic passage, when performed by Alice, gets me crying. Wonderful.

[@ConvincingPeople]

That ascending enharmonic trope is so wonderfully strange and beautiful.

[@thecatofnineswords]

That was a grand and disturbing experience. I love it. Alice's smile of happiness on successful completion of the micro-semitones was wonderful to see.

[@brent3522]

Damn that enharmonic chromatic passage at the end evokes so much emotion, and does a very great and effective way of creating tension and makes the resolution even more rewarding.

[@GreenPersimmon]

The vocalist absolutely nailed those crazy notes. Wow.

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I've been looking for this video again for months

[@erick-gd7wo]

Wow.... *Much admiration to the Alice Borciani* for have sung that enigmatic enharmonic passage

[@beingsentient]

We should mention here that in modern times, we now play such tones routinely, especially in the blues. There are instruments that are capable of playing such tones, such as the guitar, harmonica, BluesBox, and many of the brass and woodwind instruments. It's called "bending notes," and they add an entirely different dimension to the sound.

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Cavalieri. Another glorious composer to explore. Thank you Mr Rotem.

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Both singing/playing, research, commenting and video montage are all phenomenal ! Thanks

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I'm blown away by how fantastic that enharmonic passage sounded! Thank you for taking the trouble to do this, and I loved the humour, too 😀

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fascinating, and strange -- and what a wonderful performance!

[@JuniperBoy]

Fantastic! The enharmonic passage brought me out in goosebumps the first time I listened to it.

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Wonderful! Cavalieri’s Lamentations were my first experience with renaissance music, and I still find it to be some of the most beautiful music to listen to. Highly interesting to find that he employed such techniques, and I now wish to hear a full recording of the work with this passage as it was meant to be played!

[@tailleferrestan]

Interesting! The effect from the enharmonic notes is like no other. Are there other pieces composed like this too? Also, Alice's smile made my day ♥️♥️

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I loved the graphic you inserted at 8:31; it clearly represented what I was thinking and feeling! 😮😊

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It's SO amazing to see the microtonality found in the early sources and to see the underrated 31edo (division of the octave into 31 equal parts) pops out in more and more places. Thank you very much!

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A great time where composers where also musicians, mathematicians, physicists, sound engineers and lovers of poetry and theatre.

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Superb research, superb interpretation (Alice is great! Amazing precision in such a difficult passage), superb edition... this is top quality content.

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To have commissioned an organ specifically to accommodate the additional sounds, plus the effort needed to learn to play competently must mean that many more examples of this type of music existed. I like to think of a box of manuscripts sitting in a box in some dusty attic somewhere. And Alice Borciani has a killer smile.

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It would be awesome if there ware a full recording of the entire piece, or rather of the whole collection "Lamentations and Responsories for the Holy week" led by Elam Rotem and these fine musicians.

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As always a great video! Since you like discussing "avant-garde" early music I would suggest a video about Gesualdo. I've always wondered why he composed like that but I don't have the amount of knowledge you have. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

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Seconded

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Just..wow! I don't know if the most epic thing is your joy in playing and explaining the thing or the fact that enharmonic finale sounds very good..so inspiring!

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Aside from the fascinating topic and all the aspects of its ingenious presentation: The nonverbal communication between organist and soprano in the last outtake is just so charming!

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Microtonal properties found in early form of chordophone such Sumerian dutar and the legacy continues with Arabic, Syrian and Turkish Oud. Practically speaking, the old believe that a musician may play an out tune melody, can now be regards as playing 'bitter melody' range 1/5 of a regular wholetone.. awesome research

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