Vivaldi - La Follia.mp4

The epithet 'Folia' has several meanings in music. There is for instance a folk tune with the name "Folía" at the Canary Islands and a 'Folia de Reis' in Brazil is sung during a celebration brought to Brazil by African slaves in the 18th century and runs from December 24 to January 6.
In western-classical music there is an 'early Folia', which can take different shapes, and the better-known 'later Folia', which has been famous in serious music to the present day. This 'later Folia' is a standard chord progression (i-V-i-VII / III-VII-[i or VI]-V / i-V-i-VII / III-VII-[i or VI7]-IV[4-3sus]-i) with a standard melody line in the theme. It is said[who?] that Jean-Baptiste Lully was the first composer to introduce the chord progression with the melody line. This "Folia" can be considered as a structure to improvise on, as the 12-bar blues scheme with the flattened third in the melody line became famous in the 20th century. The melody line shows a remarkable similarity with the use in jazz nowadays. It is the introduction and the end of the variations to embrace the variations itself. Characteristic of that 'later Folia' (also known as "Follia" with double l in Italy, or "Folies d'Espagne" in France, "Faronel's Ground" in England) is that it is based upon a ground bass (passacaglia) while the melody line takes the shape of a slow sarabande in 3/4 meter. In the variations all sorts of meters and melody lines are accepted.
Over the course of three centuries, more than 150 composers have used it in their works. The first publications of this theme date from the middle of the 17th century, but it is probably much older. Plays of the renaissance theatre in Portugal, including works by Gil Vicente, mention the folia as a dance performed by shepherds or peasants. The Portuguese origin is recorded in the 1577 treatise De musica libri septem by Francisco de Salinas.
Jean-Baptiste Lully, in collaboration with Philidor in 1672, Arcangelo Corelli in 1700, Alessandro Scarlatti in 1710, Antonio Vivaldi in his Opus 1 No 12 of 1705, Francesco Geminiani in his Concerto Grosso Number 12, and Johann Sebastian Bach in his Peasants' Cantata of 1742 are considered to highlight this 'later' folia repeating theme in a brilliant way. Antonio Salieri's 26 variations, produced late in his career, are among his finest works.
(Texts from Wikipedia)

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[Beaderella]

is it wrong to love it? to dance around the room when this starts to play? i think not. I love THIS VERSION OF LA FOLIA!!!! Vivalidi mustve felt so close to God to write such beautiful passionate music. i love it

[millytheschnauzer]

bravo! my favorite performance version! thanks for sharing! :)

[Srgatto]

Gracias, este tema..me provoca un sin fin de sensaciones, rabia, emoción, alegría, ambición, fuerza, pena...tantas más, es un tema demasiado bueno, no me canso de escucharlo, cada vez con más atención. Gracias!

[bitritututu]

i headbang to this

[yellowplaidqueen]

I've had this stuck in my head all day! This song is seven different levels of marvelous, thank you so much for the upload!

[SprayVomit]

best song ever written

[habdelhafez76]

@Beaderella exactly how l feel about it .. well said

[AquaticTheUnreal]

This song is simply beautiful.

[SprayVomit]

WOW

[vladulification]

its follia , with two ll and in italian it means madness , this song its called like this because when antonio vivaldi wrote it it was too extravagant for those times and this is the reason why this song its called like this

[MsOal]

but is the lully's folia d'les espagne

[ThePoliticalMusician]

Les Folies d'Espagne never get old.