Singing! The digital age pt 2! A few days ago, Amalie and I were approached by the Baroness of Stonemarche, who happens to be a performer in I Sebastiani (The greatest comedia troupe in all the known world). They had one of their performers who was supposed to perform in the intermezzo have a health emergency come up. She approached us asking if we could “Do a thing”.
We have both been Bardic Champions of the Barony and long time friends . We agreed to perform a duet. There wasn’t anything in either of our repertoires that really suited what they wanted, so off to learn new rep it was!
Amalie went digging through CPDL and Thomas Morley fell on to our plates. This was Tuesday Night. Wednesday, off to learn a thing!
Thursday, Thursday,…. Thursday. I guess i should record a thing. My friend, George, who is a mundane friend had been getting me into doing some streaming. With this came some awesome and free software. OBS. I was able to make this beautiful half of my recording. It also instantly transfers my files to videos for consumption.
21 takes later this is what I decided to keep. Live performances are fleeting and you cannot dwell on mistakes and imperfections. Videos… those are permanent and scary!
Text:
Sweet nymph come to thy lover,
Lo, here alone our loves we may discover,
Where the sweet Nightingale with wanton glosses,
Hark! her love too discloses.
Sweet Nymph Come to Thy Lover (Morley, Thomas). Composition Year, 1595 or before
First Published in 1595 in Canzonets to Two Voices (No.3)
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Highly energetic blog, I liked that bit. Will there
be a part 2?
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