every english madrigal ever

[@FreddyWickhamMusic]

Subscriptions -> Ad revenue -> I can afford to hire singers who can actually sing the parts.

[@magnusgro4366]

But what if we like hearing you singing in Falsetto?

[@RedstoneManiac13]

But what if I volunteer to help 😳

[@jr2470]

Honestly, the mediocre singing is my favorite part.

[@sarahgreer5111]

If you are looking for volunteer singers, pretty sure we go to the same uni and I'd be happy to help out. Love your stuff :)

[@mauveijn]

@@jr2470 agreed, it imbues the song with a sense of common folk singing!

[@angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083]

Wow! This 5-minute piece sounds like 50 minutes long

[@matttondr9282]

Every madrigal ever lol

[@jarebozinko3943]

great job. It’s giving post-neo- “feeding her flock near to the mountainside” -ism

[@mauveijn]

Peak cottagecore

[@rin_etoware_2989]

"feed my flock on your mountainside" is a double entendre too, but i can't figure out what for

[@OrbiliusMagister]

I thoroughly enjoy your Falala.... but by writing this I'm afraid I fell int a bawdy doubl'entendre. Damn Wilbye Weelkes and Morley!

[@PieInTheSky9]

What?

[@alexapfelstein9938]

@@PieInTheSky9 smth in British

[@itamarbar9580]

This is the month of Maying!! It's not copied but VERY similar! I had friends preforming it in choir and I'm glad to see that it's famous and it has parodies

[@piersjholden]

Hehe I think you mean "every english madrigal"

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

Slaps tho

[@abetamission6643]

Yup

[@metodoinstinto]

This piece is genius. As annoying as every madrigal I've ever heard. I don't care if it's Gesualdo or whatever, it's just obnoxious.

[@Xezlec]

Lol I know, as soon as I heard the first three notes I knew which piece he was parodying! I love madrigals, don't know why people don't like them

[@filiprank9870]

I find it nice that you chose to post this in the month of May.

[@JediMaestr0]

Freddy’s transformation into Peter Schickele 2.0 is nearing completion! Heaven knows what hilarious monstrosity he will come up with when his metamorphosis is complete.

[@fishwigy]

Johann Sebastian Mastropiero

[@taylorallred6208]

I couldn’t help but follow along and try to learn my part despite knowing it was a joke

[@anonymous-cq7wj]

No one can resist choir kid impulses

[@patrickvalentino600]

"when the narrator is wooing you to enjoy his 'dilly dilly'... But while your words are speeding, take care with your voice leading, observe alto and you'll see, bar 39 requires an E; But alas! alack! Dishonor! composed into a corner! back to the board of drawing, for this kind bard of Sol-Fa-ing.

[@tedehrhard3090]

The same thing occurs in bar 15, and was done to avoid doubling the third. There's more going on here than rigidly following voice-leading rules in one part.

[@jddrew1000]

I'd love to hear "Every Gesualdo madrigal ever" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TedMackey]

“This composer killed his wife and her lover - you won’t BELIEVE what he did next…”

[@Xanaseb]

Yes please!!

[@paulschleuse3547]

Actually, every Gesualdo madrigal is already every Gesualdo madrigal ever.

[@gurdygroan]

How is nobody acknowledging the utter genius of Mr. Wickham's poetry here? It's at least as clever as the music, and twice as witty.

[@kidkrowtaylor]

Fa la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la/10.

[@Envy_May]

it's giving gilbert and sullivan

[@fjdyyh2542]

Freddy Wickham sounds like an original english madrigal composer

[@EntangledFields]

With this sort of explanation, I finally get why the Gilbert and Sullivan song "Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day" is a madrigal 😂 Thank you!

[@gracewenzel]

Wow! Summer really must be cumen in!

[@ryan.noakes]

"Turns out Eric Whitacre is far easier than Renaissance polyphony, who knew?" Anyone who has sung both? ;)

[@jennischweitzer1324]

Music major here, hey what's up

[@ryano.5149]

I got sick of Whitacre when one enterprising MD decided to have us sing one of his pieces which Whitacre composed as a pretentious and rather boring mashup of all his other pieces. **gags** I will say though, I do love his "Lux Arumque."

[@jennischweitzer1324]

One trick pony gang rise up

[@JenniferVaughnEstrada]

I've sung both. Depends on the composer and the piece, but I would generally agree.

[@kimdavis2433]

Just did both in one concert in a college choir last semester 😂 The Renaissance polyphony was in fact harder

[@mathildehb0076]

And don't forget to mention breathy voices with no vibrato, often favored in madrigal ensambles 🤣🤣

[@VanVlearMusic]

that rolled r at 0:36 blew my wig back

[@timothythomas1158]

As a vocalist and music education major, I've laughed quite a bit at the couple songs you've uploaded! You have a great understanding of both the musical styles and how listeners (and performers) sometime feel with these compositions. You have yourself another subscriber. Great work!

[@stanpolmusic4413]

'Now is the month of maying 😉' Great job on creating this, it captures the spirit of madrigals very well!

[@pxlstudios]

fa la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaa! (old english for "this was a good video, thank you!"

[@jbh002]

I listened to the whole thing once through and felt like they sang it twice.

[@cuttingbored4195]

Ooh, you touch my fa la la...

[@henrykwieniawski7233]

Here are the lyrics I remember most: Fa la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

[@Mnnvint]

Oh, you're a dirty one!

[@nou6990]

the falala gets on my nerves incredibly, subscribed

[@xbqchm]

I love how the second "falala" just gets gradually more and more in tune with each repetition. :D Sweet solfege class memories. :D

[@aadamtx]

Absolutely spot on! I also caught "This is the month of Maying," which I sang with my high school madrigal group - and that was almost fifty years ago! Thanks for the memories.

[@Mingchi]

okay I'm gonna ask my friends to sing this with me for a competition 😂

[@ormirian7364]

Weep o mine eyes and see snot (now you are cursed)

[@sashimisushii]

love that this came up on my recommended after i had to sing now is the month of maying two times this weekend 😭😭

[@sashimisushii]

that song is the bane of my existence

[@PieInTheSky9]

When I hear "falala" it just makes me think of deck the halls

[@schubertuk]

Perhaps you have previously avoided exposure to madrigals? Because you are simply quoting the most common source of "fa-la-la" that is still sung today; but it is in fact a very, very common phrase in older songs that are now way out of fashion.

[@Ken_oh545]

And now to please keen swingers / we'll hear the Kings' Singers

[@henrygibbons2354]

Brilliant. You have the style pegged 100%!

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

Aren't a lot of John Dowland madrigals rather down and sad? I'm thinking of 'Now oh now' especially: Now, oh now I needs must part, Parting though I absent mourn. Absence can no joy impart; Joy once fled cannot return. While I live I needs must love, Love lives not when Hope is gone. Now at last Despair doth prove, Love divided loveth none. Sad despair doth drive me hence; This despair unkindness sends. If that parting be offence, It is she which then offends. I've sometimes wondered if 'Dowland' should be spelled 'doleful'. But that certainly doesn't describe all of Dowland's madrigals, let alone everyone else's. Fine Knacks features a peddler who admits his wares are trash in the most cheerfully tuneful fashion. Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new Good pennyworths but money cannot move I keep a fair but for the fair to view A beggar may be liberal of love Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true, the heart is true, the heart is true Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again My trifles come as treasures from my mind It is a precious jewel to be plain Sometimes in shell the Orient's pearls we find Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain, of me a grain, of me a grain Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain, of me a grain, of me a grain Within this pack pins, points, laces and gloves And divers toys fitting a country fair But in my heart, where duty serves and loves Turtles and twins, Court's brood, a heavenly pair Happy the heart that thinks of no removes, of no removes, of no removes

[@joeyhardin5903]

I'm just as impressed by your range!

[@saido45]

sight-reading auditions be like

[@TikoVerhelst]

I love this type of music. #reformistnerd For anyone wondering. In my Dutch Calvinist church, we sang "This joyful Eastertide" which is a real madrigal. I also recommend the video "The Cambridge Singers - 13 Famous English Madrigals". It's literally just a pop chart lol. With love ballades and celebrations. It's amazing! One literally has the line "I have good lips to kiss"

[@dnuma5852]

welcome to family madrigal

[@kidkrowtaylor]

the home of family madrigal

[@wyattstevens8574]

Where all the people are fantastical and magical...

[@adriepram]

This vs Handel's "We Like Sheep", who would win? 😏

[@kidkrowtaylor]

Both haha

[@maniak1768]

This piece is splendidly observing, yet thee hath spelled 'musicke' wrong.

[@susannefri6862]

Shouldn't it be "thou hast"?

[@maniak1768]

@@susannefri6862 Indeed, I stand corrected.

[@NathanHoweMusic]

Another great offering in the series!

[@Dreigonix]

10/10 would double-tap to skip the fa-la-las again.

[@donl9571]

I was poised to comment "where's Phyllis" until we got to 5:05!

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

I need to learn how to do this.✍️✍️

[@eleanorburnham3713]

Good old Queen Bess would have loved this

[@b.m.7099]

I love Vaughn Williams!!

[@kidkrowtaylor]

We all love Vaughn Williams

[@strangebrooch]

This is my new favorite thing.

[@ManuCel_]

I liked the "la la la la" part

[@regisalboavenator]

Feels illegal being so early

[@jeanpaulabassi5]

I can't wait for this to end , but i kinda dont want it to stop too , it feels soo , falalaing

[@TedMackey]

if there was a vote, this would win my ballett

[@iltromboncini32]

Not enough English cadences

[@alexp.d3689]

Well,that will get stuck in my head fore the next three weeks ... Thanks a lot... Awesome work,well written and also funny

[@kingdavidapple]

I've been singing in a madrigal group since 2010 (& a few summers ten years prior to that, come to think of it) being the only tenor. Now I am re-learning all the music to sing bass. Perhaps we can be of use.

[@533nicky]

Delightful! Was hoping it would go to the relative minor, but I suppose that misses the point. Falalla

[@Cherodar]

It does though, at the beginning of the second half!

[@legato699]

That was funny :-D Thanks for posting.

[@igorbondarev5226]

I liked the part where it was "fa-la-la-la-la-la-la"

[@kidkrowtaylor]

I actually liked the Fa La La La La La La, but you do you

[@ceticobr]

Fa la la la la la la la la la.🎶🎵🎶

[@prometheusrex1]

Great work Freddy!

[@ancientgroove3464]

Nice satire of CPDL editions by barring across the staves in a vocal score.

[@henrygingercat]

Brilliant - and the singers weren’t that bad.

[@padraigb580]

Stunningly wonderful, bravo!

[@avdenboer]

Entrrrrrancing!

[@nadinerogers5653]

This is hilarious! Well done.

[@uhh8111]

The fa la la haunted me 💀

[@shayna110]

Sounds like “My Bonny Lass She Smileth” composed by Thomas Morley

[@maxpowr90]

Madrigals evolved into church hymns.

[@beecherb]

Pure gold

[@liauwalexander]

Thomas Morley Vibes :)

[@martinlewis1583]

Perfect!

[@sagarzon]

For sight readers, could you change frame just a tiny bit earlier next time?

[@afganitia]

Absolutely the truth.

[@onyxiris]

Fyer fyer

[@eulalie-true-blue]

"Turns out Eric Whitacre is far easier than Renaissance polyphony, who knew?" Um, I knew.

[@johnchessant3012]

wooing me to enjoy his what?

[@tristanperciful6609]

His fa la la

[@salemsokiredor9225]

Absolutely brilliant, many thanks!

[@SachinShukla]

Spot on 😂

[@alfredbackhus6110]

😁 very nice Nitpick: Descant is very high. Why not F major?

[@ElizavetaPolianitskaia]

"to cheer the court and Queen*" ..."and King" :((

[@Mnnvint]

hey nonny nonny!

[@miki890098]

Goes hard on X2 (not because the execution is too slow, it would have been way too hard to perform this any faster, it's just way too repetitive lol)

[@BenEmberley]

Now Is the month of May-ing??

[@kate2326]

as a relative music noob, the falalas in "come away sweet love" were not kind to me

[@paulschleuse3547]

That's not a madrigal. That's a balletto.

[@MsCentka]

Haha :)

[@ratkillerthe]

I kinda like it, but kinda don't... 5+ minutes english madrigal is not my "Go-to" music... but the concept/arrangement is cool

[@GoodSneakers]

The lyrics are always homophonic and the falala chorus is not. That was new at the time though!

[@schubertuk]

I think the key with the success of the madrigal was getting the words across to the audience; and homophony aided this immensely. When there are no words (of note) to communicate - the extra joy of some counterpoint does seem a wonderful invention to make the constant repetition (common in many madrigals) an added joy of anticipating the counterpoint. As in - I think this was a key part of their success and dominance at the time.

[@YetiFurCoat]

Er, where are the English cadences...?

[@RaineStudio]

Solid composition. Too much repetition - I get this is a foible of madrigals, but the joke doesn't survive all those repeats.

[@CalebCarman]

Technically, this isn’t a madrigal, but a ballett.

[@sameash3153]

bro just give us unironic originals, you don't need to hide from criticism with the the "it's meta humor" trope. It's a good madrigal, just give us this with actual lyrics worth listening to, a nice poem by Edmund Spencer or some shit, or your own non-meta poesie (lol) if you'd prefer, we'd all love it just the same. No need to bring down the gravitas with self referential humor. Not enough composers on KZbin. The few that are here rarely upload, and then a lot of others just mask their works in humor and memes.

[@Cherodar]

You say "we'd all love it just the same," and while I wish that were true, it's pretty inarguable that the meta-humour thing _is_ a lot of why this channel attracted attention. Deservedly or not, composers of unironic old-style music hardly ever get much notice.

[@sameash3153]

@@Nooticus I am a composer channel, I've been following other composers for 10 years, no, I don't need any recommendations. But also, no, there really aren't hundreds, that's an exaggeration. And this channel wasn't always that way, I followed initially when it was mostly fugues. Calling it a music comedy channel is typecasting him.

[@sameash3153]

@@Cherodar It's a shame. I personally find it degrading that composers have to resort to shitposts to get any attention. It's fine as a way to draw an audience, but if it goes on too long, you just get typecasted, as the above commenter did calling this a music comedy channel.

[@sameash3153]

@@Nooticus Satire is fun. But being typecast as PDQ Bach and nobody caring about Peter Shickele isn't fun.

[@sameash3153]

@@Nooticus If it's no big deal, my desire shouldn't frustrate you so.

[@michaelwright2986]

Is it just me, or am I missing part of the joke, but there seems to be a problem with the presentation of the lyrics. Talking of missing the joke, you seem to have some followers who make a habit of that--or rather, they get the joke but don't like jokes. I like the way you don't put stuff up to a schedule, but just when you have something to share.

[@wilh3lmmusic]

Repetitive

[@eleanorburnham3713]

Which is accurate to the genre!

[@schubertuk]

It's a madrigal - a form created for live performance, and as was still common centuries later with lieder - verse and tune repetition where common as a composer often only had a single chance at imparting a melody and all the words to the audience. Of course, these days - the modern audience is spoiled by recordings (ever since the vinyl - and now KZbin/Spotify etc) & lyric-sheets so can find it difficult to understand why these repeats existed. But there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that repeats were both successful & necessary to success in their time. Just consider the composer was building Tony Blackburn INTO the song... ;-)