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L'Homme Armé

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Uploaded by on Dec 9, 2007

Theremin: Melissa Dunphy
Soprano: Chrissy McHugh
Clarinet: Skip Hale
French Horn: Brittany Iler
Cell: Ioana Shapiro
Conductor: Dan Shapiro


L'Homme Armé was conceived in response t o two major influences: a study of early music, in particular the mensuration canons of Ockeghem, and a sense of outrage at the glorification of gun violence in American culture. Over a bed of grabs and samples captured from news broadcasts covering events such as the Iraq war and the Virginia Tech massacre, the five instruments weave a contrapuntal treatment - including a mensuration canon and cantus firmi in ordinary and retrograde forms - of the popular and oft-used t une L'Homme Armé. Considered a call to arms during the medieval Crusades to the Middle East, the lyrics take on a chilling meaning when embedded in the modern context of senseless violence and a national obsession with security: The armed man should be feared / Everywhere it has been proclaimed / That each man shall arm himself / With a coat of iron mail / The armed man should be feared.

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  • That was... weird.

  • ma cos'è!!!??? :-|

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  • You are cool :)

  • This was, very strange. It would go so well in a movie

  • I hear soprano's harmonics!!!! I's scary!!!

  • *said as i look over these comments* music geeks.......and they wonder why they never get laid.

  • Delicious.

  • she's wrong about metrical canon not being written anymore. Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britton by Pairt is one such.

  • by "metrical cannon" does she mean isorythmic motet? becuase they are still written..

  • Is it a true theremin or a so-called "electro theremin"?

  • Your music is wonderfull. I loved it

  • reminds me of Yasushi Iishi

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