Sang this song in high school for a mock funeral as a part of the Every 15 Minutes program, our choir director taught the piece to us and did not tell us when we would sing it but to be prepared. I think it is a beautiful piece, but my god do I get bad memories of watching a casket being walked down my gym floor to scare us into not drinking and driving.
1998 I sang this with my high school's Symphonic Choir while on tour in Washington DC for a National Choral Competition at the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts. We were seeing the sights and sang this while at the Archives Museum's mezzanine room, and was a delight for the ears. I still know my alto part by heart to this day. One of my favorite pieces from that.
Beautiful! This is one of my favorites. This brings back memories of the Madrigal choir I sang in at Hamilton High School, in Los Angeles, under the direction of the late, great Dr. William Teaford.
Just graduated from high school and my choir director had us sight singing this for honor choir auditions back in my sophomore year. After making honor choir, during junior year we sang this for contest season. Probably will forever be one of my favorite pieces, so nostalgic and the harmonies never fail to give me goosebumps. ❤️ Definitely made me miss high school choir a little.
I have listened to several versions of this song and it this is definitely the best. The entries of all parts are in the correct volume. It is a conversation between all parts not a competition and every time I hear sopranos coming in on forte in other renditions, it makes me shudder. In this rendition, the sopranos come in from afar and then join the conversion, then become and integral part, equal to the others. Perfect, although I too agree the last chord could have been slightly louder.
Good performance. GREAT madrigal (actually more of a choral piece, as voices aren't really independent). The absolutely seamless juxtaposition of major and minor keys, flowing melody... WONDERFUL.
Choir sang this in high school....then me and my best friend from choir sang it at our talent show! I was baritone he tenor! We won first place!! Thanks for the post!
Now, I'm not necessarily criticising, but does anybody else think that the Cambridge Singers manage to make everything they sing sound sugary and Rutter-like?
Monrealese Apparently (I have no idea how this is known) 415 Hz was the 'normal' pitch to set A at at the time. This choice probably reflects how this piece was performed when written therefore- this is what A minor sounded like at the time.
I'm pretty sure Bennet is considered Renaissance, not Baroque. He barely lived into what was later defined as the baroque period, but still wrote with a renaissance polyphonic sound... Though the tuning was slightly different in those days, it wasn't an entire half step. However, since often times choirs were made up of men and boy sopranos, it is pretty common to find adapted sheet music in a variety of transposed keys, this probably being one of them.
It was nice but personally I think the last chord for "I may drown in YOU" should be alot louder due to it being the most lovely harmony, also because it is a change in scenery that must be shown as change. Good work.
***** Ah, alright, thanks. But I don't believe it meant that. "you" = "mine eyes", i think it makes perfect sense just like it is, and no sense in this context to be about love or sex. Unless "mine eyes" mean testicles or something. Great, now I have to get that thought out of my head.
What dirty minds! It's talking about the tears produced by "mine eyes", and how their spring tides (the highest tides) might swell so high that "I may drown me in you". ie. the writer wishes to drown in his tears. Nothing more than that!
... that I my drown me in you... -how wonderful, how so very deep in emotion, how so very final in consequence. absolutely divine, this performance
Another gem of the Elizabethan composers. Even after not singing this for forty years, I still could sing the tenor part by heart.
Tenor power my guy
Same here, after 35 years.
Even five years after graduating, I still remember this song. Makes me super nostalgic. And also Altos rule. That is all 😜
It has been over 7 years since I've graduated high school and I still remember singing this in high school choir
Nah bass #1 >.>
35 for me! :) It just doesn't get old. #GoAltos
Soprano superiority
Props to anyone in a choir. Seriously. You are light and magnificence, all of you.
Sang this song in high school for a mock funeral as a part of the Every 15 Minutes program, our choir director taught the piece to us and did not tell us when we would sing it but to be prepared. I think it is a beautiful piece, but my god do I get bad memories of watching a casket being walked down my gym floor to scare us into not drinking and driving.
omg that sounds terrifying
the comment about balance and being an alto, not a soprano piece are so spot on. I think that best conveys the music's emotion.
I mostly just remember being taught to enunciate this one clearly so it wouldn't sound like "Weep, O Mine Eyes, and See Snot".
Ahh, the perfect piece for practicing diction...As my director used to say "This piece is not about allergy season!"
I almost forgot to listen to this today
Did you listen to it today?
@@cloudy7971 I did in fact lol
Hahaha, that is great to hear
And today?
This song is hell to learn, great to listen to, and beauty to sing. Dear god
My choir teacher described this song as "1600s my chemical romance"
^^^ This!
Had they hit their head?
This would’ve been considered “pop” music in the 1600s.
Thats the first time ive heard that!! Love it!
I honestly love that 😂
1998 I sang this with my high school's Symphonic Choir while on tour in Washington DC for a National Choral Competition at the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts. We were seeing the sights and sang this while at the Archives Museum's mezzanine room, and was a delight for the ears. I still know my alto part by heart to this day. One of my favorite pieces from that.
We did this for our "elite" madrigal at my school for solo and ensemble, and it was absolutely gorgeous
wonderful music, perfect synchrony with our current situation, for relaxation,Wonderful and great music in this pandemic, showing a romance
Cries in happy high school memories
Will always bring back all the Kinhaven memories ❤️
The hand at the end tho
This is so sad...perfect for a movie
Beautiful! This is one of my favorites. This brings back memories of the Madrigal choir I sang in at Hamilton High School, in Los Angeles, under the direction of the late, great Dr. William Teaford.
Sang this in high school about 10 years ago, the harmonies still give me goosebumps. Thanks to Doc Ingram and B. Kidd for my musical education
altos forever the best sectional ❤❤❤
Wonderful legatoquality, perfect intonation, just wonderful. Expressic and natural. Bravo
PapagenoHannover v/-z
Retouching accessed by the opposition:Yc
Heartbreaking lyrics....love it
2020 🙏🏽
Sang this a very long time ago with a group I co-directed. Nice to remember that experience again.
HERMOSA INTERPRETACIÓN...........LA MEJOR QUE HE OÍDO...........
The words though!!!
This song. So Powerful and lovely
Just graduated from high school and my choir director had us sight singing this for honor choir auditions back in my sophomore year. After making honor choir, during junior year we sang this for contest season. Probably will forever be one of my favorite pieces, so nostalgic and the harmonies never fail to give me goosebumps. ❤️ Definitely made me miss high school choir a little.
Je chante dans une chorale et on appelle ce chant notre bijou 😍
Fabulous...
Marvelous!!!!! Pure Music!!!!!
What a compelling piece of music!
this goes so hard omggg
Weep and see snot? Lol- my director said the same thing! Brilliant.
I have listened to several versions of this song and it this is definitely the best. The entries of all parts are in the correct volume. It is a conversation between all parts not a competition and every time I hear sopranos coming in on forte in other renditions, it makes me shudder. In this rendition, the sopranos come in from afar and then join the conversion, then become and integral part, equal to the others. Perfect, although I too agree the last chord could have been slightly louder.
The last chord is written to be pianissimo. That's why it's so quiet.
All dynamics in that period are editorial and up to the decision of the performing artists.
Magnificent!
Takes me back to Chamber Choir days back in Renaissance High in Long Beach (2016-2017)
High School Choir memories!!! 💙
Safe (Netflix) brought me here !
I love polyphonic flow my tears
gives goosebumps
did this recently in KJHC Mixed, very fun and besutiful
Sublime
Madrigal
I remember we did this song in the Hylander Chior at Baldwin High School class 66.
Good performance. GREAT madrigal (actually more of a choral piece, as voices aren't really independent). The absolutely seamless juxtaposition of major and minor keys, flowing melody... WONDERFUL.
Maravillosa!!
RIP Mufasa ;(
Perfect.
I'm so excited to sing this with my high schools chamber singers!
Nice picardy thirds!
Very pretty....
The best mixed chorus in the world. Cambridge trained, of course.By John Rutter - first rate.
Who is "Bennet"?
@@edwardweaver1467 Look him up.
@@patriciayeiser6405 I will. Hang On.
Mr Johnson the best music teacher
Choir sang this in high school....then me and my best friend from choir sang it at our talent show! I was baritone he tenor! We won first place!! Thanks for the post!
is there a cd which includes Weep O mine eyes?
Lloran mis ojos sin cesar,
ay! éstas tus primaveras.
Mis pensamientos vuelan. No.
Oh! ¿Cuándo podrás crecer tan alto
que yo pueda ahogarme en tí?
My ensemble is doing this for TSSEC19
Also "cease not"
The Catarrh Madrigal.
Weep, O mine eyes, and see snot.
Safe brought me here
how did you do?
😭
We have so few guys that I'm singing tenor on it.
I'm a mezzo soprano. It's just when I drop into my lower range my voice sounds JUST like the tenors
I think both the Cambridge and Oxford groups are both ace:)
It's the rutter sound :D :D
I die at 1:40 everytime...
When do you resurrect?
Now, I'm not necessarily criticising, but does anybody else think that the Cambridge Singers manage to make everything they sing sound sugary and Rutter-like?
1:15
I'd Rutter not talk about it. :-)
I would like this more if I could hear the basses at all in the beginning.
baroque music is often tuned a half step lower
Bruh I gotta write a whole page and a half analyzing this for my music class. What am I supposed to say. I dont understand a word their saying
motete?
Written in a minor, and they sang it a half step down in a flat. Wonder why?
Early Music is often performed at a different pitch rather than the modern standardized a' 440Hz (between a' 380-480Hz) Here they choose a' at 415Hz
Monrealese Apparently (I have no idea how this is known) 415 Hz was the 'normal' pitch to set A at at the time. This choice probably reflects how this piece was performed when written therefore- this is what A minor sounded like at the time.
Monrealese
The original performed pitch is HARD yo!!!
Frank Perron III for realz yo
yes it wasn't the same A back then and nor was it the same tuning for that matter. It should be performed at a pitch that fits the singers.
@OurSeaBee Rutter conducts this group
Thank God for margolorena2
See snot XD
begin
rutter conducts them here and there
Written in A minor, singing in G# minor?
Yes I know but they are singing in Baroque tuning so in 1600 their A would sound like our G#
Also perfect pitch gang. Ling Ling 40 Hrs
Naah, it's A flat minor if you ask me
I love the music. I just hate the piccardy thirds.
whos here from kinhaven?
I'm pretty sure Bennet is considered Renaissance, not Baroque. He barely lived into what was later defined as the baroque period, but still wrote with a renaissance polyphonic sound... Though the tuning was slightly different in those days, it wasn't an entire half step. However, since often times choirs were made up of men and boy sopranos, it is pretty common to find adapted sheet music in a variety of transposed keys, this probably being one of them.
just intonation?
It was nice but personally I think the last chord for "I may drown in YOU" should be alot louder due to it being the most lovely harmony, also because it is a change in scenery that must be shown as change. Good work.
That is to much 19th century. If there should be a word louder it's "drown" for stylistic, musical and textual reasons.
Monrealese Much much agreed.
This song is pretty dirty when you understand the lyrics good though!
most madrigals are
EXACTLY!!!
***** Care to explain? English is a foreign language to me, but I just read very, very deep sorrow and mourning.
***** Ah, alright, thanks. But I don't believe it meant that. "you" = "mine eyes", i think it makes perfect sense just like it is, and no sense in this context to be about love or sex. Unless "mine eyes" mean testicles or something. Great, now I have to get that thought out of my head.
What dirty minds! It's talking about the tears produced by "mine eyes", and how their spring tides (the highest tides) might swell so high that "I may drown me in you". ie. the writer wishes to drown in his tears. Nothing more than that!
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