What Jazz and Baroque Music Have in Common

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James Reese is a fantastic singer ❤

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His vocal control is insane! Your playing is insane! Man I love music, thank you for sharing a lesson too as always!

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[@hitsonacousticguitar]

Like the video. The "emotional organic" connection between baroque music and current music was new to me. Always thought that classical music has to be played like noted. Ornamentation is still the key to a vibrant guitar solo. Just one thing: I don't need the stock video inserts and would rather be seeing you. But that's just to my taste. Thanks for this video, it was a new thing to me and both of you performed with Graces.

[@mlilac]

Plus one to the "don't need the stock videos". Everyone uses these nowadays. I understand that the idea is to enrich the viewing experiece. But 99 times out of 100 the only extra component those inserts bring is annoyance

[@Ziad3195]

I personally like the stock videos. Please keep them.

[@johnjankiewicz3478]

Thank you for the explanation. I have loved French baroque music for 20 years because all those agreements. So ordered and yet sounds so free.

[@jcortese3300]

This is one of the reasons why I love Baroque opera so much -- I love to arrange music, and those arias have fantastic catchy melodies with TONS of elbow room to play with. I've turned some Handel arias into Romantic impromptus, rags, Elton-John gospel rock, etc. You can do anything with a good tune that gives you the space to play. I've sometimes said that Beethoven's music is like a cathedral. Handel's music is like the deluxe top-tier Lego set for a cathedral. You can build that out of it, but if you want to snap UFOs on top of the spires and combine it with a Hogwarts castle, you can.

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[@Physwe]

Do you know the album "Händel goes wild" by L'Arpeggiata? It strays quite far from the source material, but I adore it.

[@strauchler.sebastian]

Very cool video Brandon! This is one of my favourite things about our music, Thanks for sharing this to the world!! (And beautiful interpretations as always)

[@KellyBabou]

Thank you for this video!

[@kabalder]

Oh, wow :) Thank you for sharing.

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I love it😊

[@rudolphpyatt4833]

Yes. The similarities between Baroque and (for example) Bebop were recognized by mid-20th Century by many jazz and classical musicians, including John Lewis (The Modern Jazz Quartet) and Gunther Schuler, the latter of whom coined the term "Third Stream" for music merging jazz and classical elements. Of course, jazz has always had that (Joplin, James Reese Europe, George Gershwin etc.). What changed is something you touched on here: Somewhere along the way, classical practice made the composer and the score paramount and discarded improvisation.

[@ikrammaududi6205]

His voice

[@istvancsury5706]

It's a marginal aspect of the video, however, it's worth mentioning that the manuscript utilised as a background illustration at 3:57 is written in Hungarian, and it is a part of the poem "About the homeland" written by Sándor PETŐFI (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Pet%C5%91fi) in 1845.

[@joeldcanfield_spinhead]

@7:00 a revelation, hearing it with the old ornamentation-once again, we seem to assume that "older" means simpler or boring or somehow "less than". This is like discovering the true colors of the Sisteen Chapel-anything but simple and boring.

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[@pyenygren2299]

I wondered about the pronounsination, if it is from the time it was written?

[@felixthecat0371]

Yes

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[@cyruss3813]

Hi Brandon I have 2 questions. Is there any way to turn any song into medieval or Renaissance lute music? And is there any genres that mixed medieval or Renaissance with blues or rock or folk music?

[@brandonacker]

I'd recommend listening to www.youtube.com/@Hildegardvonblingin It involves understand the instruments from the time, the aesthetic and style.

[@cyruss3813]

Thank you. I'm just asking because I write folk music and I'm trying to see if it's possible to play a guitar solo by yourself without any backup instruments like bass or drums. In Renaissance and medieval lute music the lute player does solos without any backup instruments and it sounds really good. I'm just wondering if somebody can take the same techniques with Renaissance and medieval lute and apply it to blues or rock or folk guitar music to be able to do solos by yourself.

[@rudolphpyatt4833]

@@cyruss3813 Check out The Pentangle, Fairport Convention, and Steelye Span. That will take you down the British Folk Jazz and Folk Rock rabbit hole. Also, the solo work by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, away from The Pentanlge. Vocalist Jackie McShee is still carrying on with that band.

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[@spacelemur7955]

Sounds like it has a lot in common with Middle-eastern music.

[@MaycourtRainworth]

Bouree in e minor!

[@aurora3655]

Ur 3/4 emphasis is different then a jazz like 3/4.

[@lezael4126]

Vrutal

[@Enlitner]

The singer rightfully gets a lot of praise for his lovely voice but is he simulating a french accent from the period? Otherwise his pronounciation is terrible. I dont care usually but his "voix" made me laigh out loud.

[@jreesemusic]

@@Enlitner hi there - I’m the singer! yes, this is 17th century French pronunciation. It does sound super unusual to a modern listener - glad you got a laugh! I wrote a comment detailing it a bit more on the full performance video of this piece on Brandon’s channel. Thanks for listening

[@arferbargel]

@@jreesemusic Once I heard "bois" I knew something was up. Beautifully sung BTW.

[@jreesemusic]

@@arferbargelthanks so much!!

[@Enlitner]

​@@jreesemusicThat's awesome. How deep does this go? Do you learn one specific "baroque" pronounciation or do regional dialects come into play because there wasnt a uniform french language yet? And what about italian, did composers write in their own language as this was centauries before "italian" was created or was there like a "aristocratic version" that composers used?

[@jreesemusic]

​@@Enlitner You're spot on that there wasn't official uniformity in French until later - like the early 19th century. Most of the pronunciation decisions in this video are based in writing about how it might have been done at the aristocratic court around 1700- (since that's where much of this music in this genre was originally performed.) Scholars have different methods for understanding how words may have been pronounced by context clues from written documents, including rhymes, puns, or transliterations into other languages. To the question, 'how can we know for certain what it sounded like?' - well, we can never know for certain! But the joy of reconstructing a historical musical performance is imagination, and making well-supported guesses at how things would have actually sounded. If you are a singer or interested to learn more, I highly recommend the book 'Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance.' Robert Taylor has a chapter on the evolution of Old French to early modern French. But there are chapters which cover Italian, Spanish, French, and multiple chapters on Latin and how it was pronounced around Europe. It's a page-turner, as you can imagine :)

[@djmoulton1558]

Sorry, but bois is pronounced "bwah." Oiseuax is pronounced "wazzo."

[@brandonacker]

@@djmoulton1558 he is using the 17th century french pronunciation. The piece was written in 1685

[@jreesemusic]

I wrote a comment on the full performance video of this piece on Brandon’s channel talking a bit more about this pronunciation! Vowels and treatment of consonants were different in this time period. We can’t say for certain what they were in every case, but we can make educated guesses. A lot of people say it sounds like modern-day Quebecois. Thanks for listening!

[@reeser8]

This made me go on Google Translate to take a look at the way Haitian Creole pronounces these words. Many of these languages are frozen in time from when the population was cut off from the country of linguistic origin. And in Haitian, bois is bwe. Pretty close to bwes. It makes sense that the silent s and x were once pronounced. Modern French is lazy French! 😂