Reach for the Sky II

(Because of YT's 10-min limit on uploads by non-partners, I was forced to chop the performance into two uploads.)

This might seem an odd video from an atheist, but contrary to theist propaganda, we can appreciate beauty too.

Over the ages, great beauty has been created in honour of mythologies. These cathedrals, churches, monasteries, abbeys, and priories are scattered across Europe.

The music is Allegri Miserere, performed by the Tallis Scholars, under the direction of Peter Phillips.

Gregorio Allegri wrote the piece in the 1630s, and based it on Psalm 51. The Miserere uses two choirs (one of five voices, the other of four) and "deploys the dominant seventh chord repeatedly like a bomb, the trebles hit high C again and again, and the famous 'abbellimenti' are inserted like a stiletto, to pierce the hardest heart."

A famous tale is associated with this piece. A threat of excommunication was extended by the Vatican to prevent anyone's stealing it for performance outside the Sistine Chapel.

According to the Mozart story (supported by family letters), the fourteen-year-old Wofgang heard the piece while visiting Rome. He smuggled it out of the Sistine Chapel in his head. Later, he wrote it down entirely from memory. He attended another performance to check his memory and make minor corrections.

Mozart passed the score to the British historian Dr Charles Burney. As a result, it was published in 1771 ... thankfully for any who consider this music sublime!

http://www.brightcecilia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1836

Reach for the Sky is the title of a book by an Australian journalist, Paul Brickhill. The title has always struck me as appropriate to the towering majesty of gothic cathedrals.

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Music

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• allegri
• miserere
• tallis
• scholars
• cathedral
• church
• monastery
• abbey
• priory
• Europe
• England
• nave
• cloister
• stained
• glass
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[starrynight003]

Stunning visuals....gorgeous sound....lovely work Saph.

[saphistische]

Thanks again ;) This was the distracting project.

[dnadsy52]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing..To keep in my Play. saphistishe... d.

[saphistische]

Thanks, dnadsy. Something for your morning coffee ;)

[LovelySpanishEyes1]

Simply gorgeous work.  Thank you for sharing. I absolutely love this video.

[saphistische]

Thanks, LSE. I am glad that you enjoyed it ;)

[o0Ame0o]

Wow... Thank you for this music from heaven...... In listening, we feel connected with the light... Beautiful... ☼

[AnnABobriKRussiA]

I like this atr-video!  Nice pictures =)

[dnadsy52]

Certainly...my coffee will be lighter....Good evening....d.

[saphistische]

Thanks, Tilly. Two of my favourite things too!

Making this one made me feel like dashing over to England. It is fortunate that this was soothing to make --- I had a dickens of a time uploading the two parts successfully.