NYRF 2007 - The Crown Madrigals: Fa Una Canzona

[2ndandra]

The sheet music for this song goes from 4 4 to 3 4 to 2 4 back to 4 4, my band teacher found out that the person that wrote the song could have just put it in 4 4 time the whole song, but i guess that he just wanted to make it changeling for us.

[desidog1]

i sang this song sophomore year, and i loved it!! and really, i doubt your middle school choir was good but with reasoning. middle school kids don't have much vocal maturity and aren't as stable as someone even 2 years (much less 30) years older. voices are changing and cracking. but this ren fair choir was pretty good with the circumstances surrounding!

[lilsisasu]

This is a great version.  When I was in high school, we did this in a madrigal dinner. We sang it in both languages. The only thing we did differently was the tempo. We did it slower. Otherwise, it's great.

[Cr4ckerjake]

It's more 'authentic' than it is 'perfect'. I actually enjoy listening to this.

[clutchac]

lol the end

the guy is like

? silence fading...SILENCE FADING!

[Kriscelloman15]

I like how you made oh so gently a fortissimo lol. yeah... but I really like you guys though. :D

[Cooliestgirl14]

I miss singing this from last year

[filmjedi]

I have to say I'm biased because I'm the guy in the blue feathered hat downstage, but I LOVE our version of this song-- it's fun and captures the spirit of "a lover's burning" - and besides its frankly more lively and entertaining this way. The slower, more traditional variations of this song can put an audience to sleep-- however pretty they are.

[rubyxredxrose]

Well, you guys did a great job. My school's Madrigals did this in a different style and (not to boast) we sounded pretty good, but I love how light and fun yours sounds :D

[HoppyBeer]

I don't know why everyone is ripping on this. I like the staccato. Good dynamics. Everyone is perfectly on pitch as well, good job.

[atmosphere1823]

I agree that this is authentic, as far as what we would have heard on the streets at the time...LOVE their spirit and sense of fun! Have heard other renditions which after hearing this, seem to be draggy, too legato and sweet. Madrigals were not all intended to be sung like Palestrina. They were usually secular, and often quite ribald. They would not have all been sung like church music, particularly not all the homophonic, declamatory ones such as this.

[celestemoon]

nice to hear it performed so enthusiastically!

[SarahBass84]

wow I think their great. you know considering their not performing at a high school competion. I mean this is a reinsance festival, this is how people on the street would probably sing it.

[allenw195]

They look a lot like "The Crimson Pirates"!

[Damdiea2]

i wonder what it would sound if it wasn't sticattoed

[illueia]

A lot prettier.....and as to the comment about the middle school choir not being better....have you ever heard us? no. I highly doubt it. so don't be so quick to judge.....we're the best middle school auditioned choir in the state. :P

[CourtneeMalakian]

you guys ruined this song

[chrissyiceicebaby]

love this song but not when you guys sing it

[reximilious]

what i like best about this version is that it's not sung and blended perfectly. In fact it's the fact that it isn't what some would call perfect, which makes it seem so much like something that was actually performed in the renaissance.

[dorkfish90]

WHY IS EVERYONE SO MEAN? I doubt a middle school choir is better. It was great. I don't usually like putting the english lyrics in there, but that's personal. Good job.

[Blakknblu]

Dynamics were also great! something are school lacked

[Blakknblu]

um some of these comments are a bit rude. 1st i really love this song, our high school went 2 a district competition with it and got a Superior. This group considering is from a Renaissance festival and not a professional choir sounded good. i dont know if the voices blended amazingly but im sure u all sound good individually

[phantom80111111]

my school sounded so much better when we sang this!

[dareezy]

brava tenors

[mixedmadrigals08]

I had to sing this to get into madrigals class at my school... and I can tell you you all suck... sorry

[illueia]

Wow. Love the song. But you guys suck. Try some better vowels. Oh and diction. My middle school choir sounds better. sorry. just saying.

[netchoo1]

& how many kids were in the MS chorus???? & did they have to perform anything else at full voice???? Didn't think so. I think they do quite well for such a small group...but I'm sure you are the expert.

[InnocentlyEvil]

Concidering Renaissance Faire and are singing with accents, it sounds great.

[InnocentlyEvil]

I absolutely love this song, my chorus sang it last year for a competition. Thanks for putting this up, I've been searching everywhere for it so I could listen to it (depsite the fire crackers o.o XDD)

[Kinravip]

Those firecrackers were strapped to chest of juggler/tightrope-walker Dextre Tripp, a maniac in his own right.

You can also hear the bang of the ring-the-bell-with-the-mallet game next door to the stage.

Oy.

[Kinravip]

Hee.

[netchoo1]

Thanx for all the film from the faire!! Nice way to revisit esp. if you have a child and her friends in it!!!

[filmjedi]

Silence FADING!!!