Thomas Morley - Madrigals

[Sunflowers159]

I haven't sung this for about 30 years!

[ltyr2001]

What's up with the stupid pedophile illustration?

Get rid of the stupid art work!

[1400deadwood]

@ltyr2001 - perhaps the poster has a fetish for male buns. While he/she has good taste in music, evidently the person has a most distasteful inclination in other things.

[CommanderReiker]

@ltyr2001

Well, I think @caoamarelo was trying to invoke a visual feeling of the renaissance era to go along with the melodic vocals. This drawing was done by a small town artist in the 1400's. You may have heard of him before, Leonardo da Vinci? He was showing the need for knowing what is underneath the skin(muscles, tendons, bone, ect.) to properly understand what makes the body look like it does and translate that into pencil strokes. Now quit being a pencildick fuck and enjoy the music!

[SuperIlluminaughty]

3 people have no mistresses.

[EyeLean5280]

Very nice, but WHY Leonardo's anatomical drawings of male nudes from behind???

[polymath7]

@EyeLean5280 Because he was gay, you silly goose.

Far too easy, but I couldn't resist.

[EyeLean5280]

@polymath7 - LOL

[neckronn99]

@polymath7

Was that Leonardo or Michelangelo? I thought Leonardo had a long-time mistress....

[polymath7]

Mistress? Somewhere in his notebooks, Leonardo says something to the effect that the vagina is unspeakably repulsive, but the penis is so fine an organ it is almost a crime to cover it.

There are no extant sources I'm aware of that mention anything about Leonardo having any heterosexual relationships -nor homsexual ones, actually. Michelangelo is known to have had male lovers, but the case for Lenonardo's homosexuality is purely circumstantial; nonetheless it is (I would argue) rather firm.

[polymath7]

@EyeLean5280 You know, grading on a curve, for this site, this pairing of music and imagery is hardly so bemusingly incongruous. Try to explain the negative-color Modigliani's with the Haydn symphonies.

[remdem]

Really Beautiful!

[wrxstigoabs]

Gorgeous

[Areyoubeingfilmed]

i'm digging the picture of naked dudes here

[tnb35]

@Areyoubeingfilmed

it's leo's anatomical studies

[zacharyfrd8]

awesome its so complex and diverse its amazing

[braintrama]

I shower to this daily :-D

[Caroller]

@braintrama So, it only takes you 1:29 minutes?

[groovekitty70]

@Caroller--I do hope you're referring to the showering. :-P

Yes, this is the finest performance of this I know I've ever heard. Thanks for posting it!

[65renaissanceman]

@Caroller Hmmmmm. When I sang this, the music required both halves to be repeated, making it twice as long.

[bluesourire]

Wonderful

[javelinconquest]

I was singing the soprano part for this song just yesterday <3 I adore madrigal music

[sibionic]

except they pron. july as 'julie'.

[Lichtwolf86]

Yes, they do, AND they pronounce cold as "cauld".

But this absolutely correct. English in the 16th century sounded not what modern English sounds like. Remember that the Hilliard Ensemble is renowned for historically correct performances ^^

[sibionic]

Yes good point. Or should I say Yese, goode pointe.

[65renaissanceman]

@Lichtwolf86 Exactly right. Since the 16th century English has undergone the "Great Vowel Shift" and amongst other things, some words don't rhyme that used to - there are some hymns by Charles Wesley where ends of lines that you would expect to rhyme don't, though they undoubtedly did 250 years ago when he wrote them.

[Kievest]

Sublimely beautiful.  Thank you.

[dwsolo]

Beautiful singing but what is the point of having a video with one image (and not a particularly appropriate image either)

[xhannahxonealx]

I believe it is because this music is from the Renaissance, which is when Leonardo da Vinci became "famous", and this picture do resemble some of his artwork on the Anatomy of the human body :) But it's just a guess.

[mrgabest]

Superb.  Morley is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this.

[szilvavirag]

Beautiful!

[manwithabook]

Nice job. The Auld English takes a moment to get used to, but once I got on board with what you were trying to accomplish linguistically, I loved it.  Musically, you are professional quality vocalists. Great job, and thanks for posting this. It's the best rendition I've heard to date.

[caoamarelo]

...:)

[BachLoveNat]

angel...s singing...

thank you