John Farmer - Fair Phyllis I saw - The Cambridge Singers

[@worshipkoskei8d138]

wow this sounds beautiful enough to make my heart beat

[@Sirracco]

It's quite lovely as one can clearly hear the harmonies.

[@fleeb]

It's true you can hear the harmonies, but you can't hear the wordplay properly at this speed. All those up-and-downs help drive the double-meaning.

[@sunflowercatie]

singing in chorus and this song makes my brain go up and down

[@shadowfox1221]

We'll be doing this in our choir shortly. Never heard it before, but it sounds like a lot of fun to do. And a bit of a challenge with all the parts coming in at different times. Sounds very happy the way it is done here. I can't wait to sing it now.

[@mugizikenneth3703]

This was our set piece for competitions in 1978. I was in P7 at Kashekuro Primary School in Bushenyi district. Our choir teacher was Mr Nkabahita

[@thatchoirgirl94]

Midsomer Muders' episode 'Death in Chorus' brought me here. The DCI's wife sings this madrigal with her choir as they take part in a choirs competition lovely piece about dirty things 😍

[@xoxolatl]

And me

[@tejasnair3399]

_’Up and down he wandered’_ this is the highest level of english text setting, along with the best of Morley, Dowland, Purcell, and Thomas Attwood. Also the chorus to ‘Take on me’

[@katharinewilson-jarvis9060]

Thank you so much for the notation as well - it really helps with my music GCSE! :)

[@AconCole2]

UP AND DOWN HE WANDERED

[@smile3284]

Amazing!

[@hisbassness]

That's the same thing I thought the first time I listened to this recording, but I've come to appreciate the way the tempo allows them to lift the notes a bit, which gives the song a bit of playfullness. I've sung this fast, and I'm not sure which I like better anymore.

[@mishka300]

Every time someone complains about any modern music being too sexual or graphic, I point out this song was published in 1599 and I sang it in high school. Such a fallacy that if only music wasn't as 'sexually explicit' society would be SO much better. Clearly 'sexually explicit' songs have been around for at least four centuries.

[@soniarena5250]

Ooooh, I have to agree, I was taken aback!!! LOL

[@Nooticus]

^ this!!!

[@DaveBassTrekker]

Speed, tempo, is almost always subjective. But listen to the hall in which these people are performing! Listen to the amount of reverberation the group has to contend with. Even at this "slow" tempo there are parts nearly lost because of the reverb. About 20 years ago, some fantastically speedy rendition of Beethoven's 9th was released and there was controversy over it's' tempo being "too fast". It was stated that Beethoven had that tempo in mind at it's writing but the halls of the time were too "live" to allow it to be played as fast as he desired. Clarity is a desirable thing in music.

[@GeraldB526]

I like this

[@jamesmoule1145]

Novello's Standard Glee Book attributes this to Thomas Morley. I guess it's like lots of things in 18th century German being attributed to JS Bach (incorrectly).

[@blackbull84]

In the room they recorded this piece it would've been difficult to perform at a faster tempo because of all the echoing

[@TheSummoner]

Personally I don't think it would've made much sense regardless

[@terrillburke8801]

Listen to this 1.5x.....you'll have good time. Thank me later.

[@parklloyd6690]

I tried 1.5x and it was a bit fast and clipped. I tried 1.25x and it was more like what I had done in high school. Thanks for the idea. Cheers!

[@chukwukaonyenze7450]

Very crisp and quick lol😂😂.. Thanks

[@davidk1503]

Y'all fw Fair Phyliss?

[@OlmoHerediaKaraokes]

otra vez por KZbin, lorena

[@marcomicheletti9957]

0:24, the shepherds 0:59, O, then they fell

[@smartcookie2011asap]

you are correct. This was way too slow. I sang this a few years ago in high school and it was a lot faster. But I have noticed that many people slow this down.

[@thomasmiles9068]

So your high school knows best? So many experts who know how it was performed 400 years ago - amazing.

[@willwei98]

the 3/4 sections and the 4/4 sections are not at the same tempo.

[@Larok87]

Because it is a wrong notation. It has to be 6/4 or 3/2, the pulse is the half-note, switches there to the dotted half-note. The proportion is right.

[@willwei98]

Larok87 The quarter notes should be the same length, and they are not.

[@quickbrownfox42]

Will Wei Larok87 is right, when the meter changes, a beat of the 2 equals a measure of the 3. They would not have written 3/4 vs 4/4 with the same quarter notes because there weren't really measures then as we have today.

[@richardhartley5211]

One is quite entitled to interpret the tempo as one wishes. Whether the quarter notes are the same length is entirely at the discretion of the performers. This music was probably written down without bar lines, which were put in later by some editor.

[@squeaky2384]

I know I'm late, but during the Renaissance period, they didn't have any specific bar lines.

[@cwrujd]

who's here because they heard this in an episode of Midsommer Murders?

[@ameliamurray3]

anyone else here from an Breakout EDU ?

[@SethWatersVlogs]

This is too slow. It's just my opinion, nobody yell! Traditionally, English madrigals were intended to move quickly. I think it's the Rutter-Cambridge effect kicking in. I"M JUST VOICING OPINIONS! JUST OPINIONS!

[@fgonzalez43]

The Cambridge Singers take every song to slowly.

[@mr.i6181]

1.75x better

[@briansanchez7549]

Las chivas xD

[@Marshmallow_Trees]

So slow ☹️

[@thatchoirgirl94]

Midsomer Muders' episode 'Death in Chorus' brought me here. The DCI's wife sings this madrigal with her choir as they take part in a choirs competition lovely piece about dirty things 😍