Calling upon burning boulders to fall upon me? Sounds like a normal day at the office.

Reminds me of my younger days.

my younger days

Seriously, very interesting. I shall be sending my classical music readers to this post.

Not helpful to some of us cretins [grin]. English translation, por favor?

Übersetzen Sie, bitte? Oder sind wir zu verstehen, daß Sie glauben, daß wer Französisch versteht nicht, versteht gar nichts?

Thanks for that.

Slightly OT, I never realized that Huascar was a real historical figure...I just thought he was the high priest in Prisoners of The Sun.

[googling]

Ooo, Rascar Capac was a real person too! And is now a really scary mummy, just like in The Seven Crystal Balls.

They should make a ballet of Tintin.

I haven't listened to the pieces in question, but this is one of those turns of phrase that forces the mind to look at the familiar world in terrifying new ways. In particular, I fear Dead Can Dance's arrangement of "Saltarello" may never be the same for me. Dammit.

This reminds me of the 1712 Overture, by PDQ Bach. During a rather soft section, he uses an actual duck call. Then goes into a bit of a jazz organ riff. Genius!

Not being snarky, but interested to know.

Well I suppose it was all the rage at the time. Montesquieu, Voltaire, all that.

Also : "Quand lama faché, lui toujours faire ainsi"

Alex #18: La Matelotte is the name of a dance (several, actually) and a dance tune, known in France and England during Rameau's time. In English country dance, it's known as The Female Sailor. The tune was later used for the Christmas carol "Masters in the Hall." See the 4th video at the baroque dance link.

[Cross-cross thread]: The Chicken of Fermented Curd Dancing?

This year's opera was the 1678 tragédie lyrique version of Lully's Psyché, which is being given post-festival presentations in Great Barrington this weekend.

It was probably my first encounter with really thrilling drama...that story and The Blue Lotus, which had that creepy knife-wielding kid with the spiral "crazy" line over his head, made quite an impression. Tintin is wonderful.

Now, what exactly that is, I don't know. But I like it.

Thanks

This isn't the "duck-call school of Baroque instrumentation," unless the guy in the middle is playing an authentic Baroque electric guitar. And the gal standing on the far left appears to be playing an actual duck call, but it's really a flabiol, a small one-handed flute. I didn't get far enough into the videos to see if they used the historically-informed reproduction Baroque marimba, but unless its there for another ensemble, I can't imagine why they wouldn't.

The band, Cobla La Principal d'Amsterdam is the only cobla (Catalan street band) outside of Catalonia. Besides traditional Catalan cobla music, they play modern compositions for cobla and arrangements of medieval and renaissance music and Gershwin. Sounds like fun.