Understanding Form: The Canary

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I know it's been a while, it's been a busy year, but alas I am back with another upload. In this video I discuss the often overlooked dance called the Canary. Surprisingly often relegated to being a mere footnote in discussions on music history as simply an alteration of the Gigue, it like many of the other "dance forms" I discuss on this channel is worth diving a bit deeper into in order to understand its importance and place in the history and development of western music. All stock footage used in this video are of the Canary Islands.
A special thanks as always to musopen.org and imslp.org for offering free public domain sheet music and recordings online.
Sources of the recordings used in this video:
Kabsberger Canario:
• Giovanni Girolamo Kaps...
Sanz Canario: (Background Music)
• Hopkinson Smith, guita...
Couperin Canario:
• Canaries in d minor fo...
Sanz Canario: (Notation Example)
• Gaspar Sanz: Canarios ...
Lully Canarie:
• Lully - Le bourgeois g...
Bach French Suite:
• Bach - Tatiana Nikolay...
Bach Goldberg Variation No.7:
Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka (PD recording from Musopen.org)
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
• Beethoven: 7. Sinfonie...
Bernstein America:
• West Side Story - Amer...

[@erikgruber9736]

You are one of the BEST music educators out there I can think of

[@maxjohn6012]

Always a pleasure to see a new video in this series :) I only know this form from a few of Louis Couperin's suites. Hearing it suddenly and clearly in that wonderful Beethoven was a joy!

[@Inventio13]

Thank you for yet another good video on Form. The name Canarias comes from Latin for dog (Canis). Thus they are the Isles of dogs, rather than birds.

[@MusicaUniversalis]

This is very funny, thanks for the extra info 😂

[@MrGeorgecavaquinho]

But, the birds are native to the islands, which is where the birds got their name from. Everyone remebers the birds but forgets the dogs.

[@SisselOnline]

Oh my god!!! finally a new Understanding Form video OWOWO

[@caterscarrots3407]

I know right? I was wondering why no new videos were coming out.

[@word77770]

Thank you so much for this lesson!

[@martiglesias60]

The Isa is also from the Islas Canarias. The Kingdom of Napels (with Sicily) was a part of the Spanish empire, long before the country Italy exist.

[@makytondr8607]

This is brilliant! Never realized that this pattern had such a deep history. Beethoven’s 7th also makes use of the Folia chord progression; I wonder what inspired him to write such a spanish influenced piece.

[@nickyay19]

And Beethoven's 5th (2nd Movement) as well!

[@Hello_507]

Hes back!

[@NichtWunderkind]

Nice

[@eddie3051]

Can you make a video on the use of traditional folk music in classical music? Like how Tchaikovsky uses traditional music in his 1812 ouverture and marche slave and how many spanish traditional dances are used in classical music

[@johannpetersen1727]

Hey Henry, what happened with the Spotify recording of your suite for flute and guitar? I absolutely loved it and listened to it all the time but it disappeared from Spotify and Apple Music

[@MusicaUniversalis]

I ended my contract with my previous label. I will be re-releasing all my stuff under my own personal label in the coming months. Sorry for the inconvenience. Music business stuff…

[@johannpetersen1727]

@@MusicaUniversalis Wow, thanks for the answer, I’m so happy that it’s gonna come back! Looking forward to it!

[@Brandon55638]

Can you give me some advice for writing my piece? I'm writing my own variation for solo piano on the famous song "The Lord's Prayer" where the melody develops in the style of dramatic Italian opera arias by Verdi, Mascagni and Puccini. I've been listrning to a lot of late Romantic/early 20th century music and, compared to those pieces, the original melody sounds like Schubert or Fauré's songs.

[@MusicaUniversalis]

You can refer to the video description, where you can book zoom lessons.

[@luiscarlospinedodelarosa1816]

America is written in Mexican huapango style. It's written at the beginning of the score.