Marin Marais "Folia" - viola d'amore - Garth Knox

live performance of Marin Marais's "Folies" played by Garth Knox on viola d'amore at the Villa Ocampo, near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Filmed by Roman Azcarate for ñ

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Music

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• garth
• knox
• viola
• d'amore
• marin
• marais
• folies
• d'espagne
• baroque
• ocampo

[death0personified]

Isnt this a Corelli piece?

[evolvingstring]

@death0personified Yes, there are also some variations written by Corelli on this same theme. At the time, this was a popular theme to write variations on, and many different composers wrote pieces based on it. Incredible how many different styles and idea you can get out of a very simple theme.

[flind15]

Lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[ModellMeister]

@death0personified Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Corelli, Marais, Bach, Lully, almost ALL baroque composers composed a Folia. Its just a musical variation.

[221Dw]

@pradlee Wow lol i'd probably be better off making one myself =P.

[cyllansse]

1 is mad. (fou)

[pradlee]

@221Dw from the bit I've found, a cheap one would be about $5000 (U.S. dollars)

[221Dw]

Does anyone know how much one of these would cost to buy? I don't imagine they are that easy to come by.

[UncleTito72]

@televisiekijken1 Probably not. If you keep the tuning in 5ths, then it would be the same a s a violin. I'm a guitarist (guitars are tuned in 4ths with an oddball 3rd) I have made comparisons with both tunings, and when transcribed for guitar the guitarist has to do a lot of string skipping. The Viola d'amore does not use any of those tunings, it is tuned to a Dm chord most of the time, plus the strings are closer together than that of a violin. You would have to find a scordatura transcription.

[ericoschmitt]

@televisiekijken1 i think so. viola d'amore uses a tuning where the open strings form chords, so you can make a richer harmony. you can also tune your violin differently, but it has only 4 strings and the chords cant be so full

[armatulo]

@televisiekijken1 I assume it depends on how the punctuation will be adopted. But you have to remember that Chaconne is a violin piece, written specifically for violin which means that playing it on other instruments, even belonging to the violin family group kind of defeats the purpose. Chaconne is one lovely piece though, when you hear it it makes you wish you would be able to play it, and play the violin. Absolutely divine music.

[armatulo]

@televisiekijken1 I assume it depends on how the punctuation will be adopted. But you have to remember that Chaconne is a violin piece, written specifically for violin which means that playing it on other instruments, even belonging to the violin family group kind of defeats the purpose. Chaconne is one lovely piece though, when you hear it it makes you wish you would be able to play it, and play the violin. Absolutely divine music.

[televisiekijken1]

contemplating.....would it be easyer to play thé Chaconne on a viola d'amore than on a violin.....?