Marais - Suite in C Major - Mov. 1/8

[smithsherman]

Dear Harmonico,I love your site and the beautiful art you post with you videos,but this still goes on my LOUIS XIII and XIV AS A DISCOTHEQUE FOR ELEGANT CADAVERS

[HARMONICO101]

Hah. Alright. lol.

[smithsherman]

I award you 5 Lullys for being a good sport.

[HARMONICO101]

Well, ah, thank you! Hope you find some more of my videos that are more attuned to your taste!

[GALANTERIEasaFARCE]

I AWARD THIS 4 DRESDENS....A typical early music performance of highly polished and predictable exteriors with vapidry abounding inside.This is the exclusively materialist-atheistic view of Galanterie asserted by modernity.

[HARMONICO101]

I'm not sure what you mean by "exclusively materialist-atheistic view of Galanterie asserted by modernity". But what I like about this performance is that it is very elegant and doesn't try to create a bizarre stylism, like an Il Giardino performance. It's the music, not the performers.

[GALANTERIEasaCHARM]

Dear Harmonico...It not only doesn't create a "Bizaare stylism"...it has no style whatsoever.The notion that music should be served by humans is a misanthropically fallatious 1,not existent in the Baroque period.Therefore,not only is it vapid...it's unBaroque to be so.Which is why I rated it 4 Dresdens...for the Silly Arte-Deco style Baroque that it is.Best Wishes,Smith

[HARMONICO101]

Recall though, that this is a dance suite written specifically for dancing and enjoying elegant company. It is for people is it not? Recall too, that this is music of the age of absolutism, so despite the extravagance of the time, things were still bound by strict rules. I feel that this performance displays both the elegance of the time and yet the certain restraint of a repressed society. It's elegant, aristocratic, and but never eccentric.

[GALANTERIEasaCHARM]

Caro Harmonico,This wasn't written for dancing

[HARMONICO101]

This is from a dance suite. Most secular french baroque music was centred around dance.

[GALANTERIEasaCHARM]

DearHarmonico...Yes...An dance suite in name only for instrumental recitation...not dancing.

[HARMONICO101]

Depends on the era, and the music itself. Bach's orchestral suites were for dancing, but obviously his unaccompanied cello suites are not.

You can tell from the structure and sound of these pieces that they were mean't to be danced to. They were also written during the reign of Louis XIV which was a time where dance was very popular in France.

[LUDWIGfreeOFidolatry]

True...but not just the era and music...but the performers.These performers are from the brainwahed 20th century Universal-Arte-Deco Baroque.They've accepted as dogma...

unvaryingly beautiful tone played to a danceably metronomic rhyhm as correct.

But of course...there is no correct.And as I'm not dancing while listening to this...it's vapid.

[frphilipmullen]

What beautiful French sounds -- and played with gusto! It makes my Huguenot bones want to dance!

Thanks for such great music! :)

[rulebritannia1]

what is that painting called and who is it by

[HARMONICO101]

I'm afraid I don't remember... can't seem to remember where I found it. Sorry.

[rulebritannia1]

ok its just i think that it is onw of the best painting i have ever seen

[HARMONICO101]

Well, glad you like it.