IrishOboe

Today (Sat. Feb. 10) I went to a five hour Baroque dance workshop at the Schola.    It was extreme fun for the first 4 ½ hours, but then my brain turned off and my muscles are letting me know they’d had enough.

I’d rather not write much about my experience at said pub.  I’m not writing the name again because I don’t want someone to find this post when searching for it.  Let’s just say I’m only a pub person when there’s a nice session going on.  The Swiss, even in an Irish pub, are not so friendly as Americans or the Irish in a pub.  The band only did songs, and I’m more of a reel and jig kind of gal.  Yet, I enjoyed the hour of music and my tram ride home.  There was this crazy Italian lady yelling her head off at her cell phone.  I wish I could have gotten a video of the looks the Swiss gave her, but that would have required being obvious with the camera.

2007-02-09 crazy Italian lady on tram cut.mpg

I wanted to share with those of you who are interested the Renaissance Madrigal we did in Baroque harp class.  The title is “Doulce memoire en plaifir confumee” and it’s something to do with a memorial in memory of a deceased loved one.  I chose to sing it because I’d just finished practicing oboe and was too tired to get through it beautifully.  As you can see it’s in French so I’m just singing on “doo.”  I’ll blame my vocal problems on the poor recording quality, except for the last line where I messed up the intonation in the run (sorry!) but you can hear the correct notes the first time I sing that run.  I know the video is too hard to follow with the music, but you can see the music in the picture.  I split the video in two because it was too big, and the first video covers the cantus part on page one (minus the last note) and the second video covers the cantus on page two (starting after the last note of the previous page).  In looking at the piece again I think I figured out what some of the marks meant that I didn’t catch in class.  If my memory serves me right I got it right finally.  Maybe if Sarah checks this post she can tell me where I’ve gone wrong.