François Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses | Harp | 1 Hour | 432 Hz
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2020
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François Couperin's Mysterious Barricades transcribed for harp and converted to 432 Hz scale in one hour loop. Enjoy!
Paintings: A Vase of Flowers by Jan van Huysum (left and right) and Margaretha Haverman (middle).
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Les Barricades Mystérieuses (The Mysterious Barricades) is a piece of music that François Couperin composed for harpsichord in 1717. It is the fifth piece in his "Ordre 6ème de clavecin" in B-flat major, from his second book of collected harpsichord pieces (Pièces de Clavecin). It is emblematic of the style brisé characteristic of French Baroque keyboard music.
The work is in rondeau form, employing a variant of the traditional romanesca in the bass in quadruple time rather than the usual triple time.
"The four parts create an ever-changing tapestry of melody and harmony, interacting and overlapping with different rhythmic schemes and melodies. The effect is shimmering, kaleidoscopic and seductive, a sonic trompe l'oeil that seem to have presaged images of fractal mathematics, centuries before they existed."
The piece was voted at #76 in the Australian 2012 Classic 100 music of France countdown.
Les Barricades Mystérieuses was originally published with the spelling Les Baricades Mistérieuses ("single r" in the first word, and "i" rather than "y" in the second word). All four possible spelling combinations have since been used with "double r" and a "y" being the most common. There has been much speculation on the meaning of the phrase "mysterious barricades" with no direct evidence available to back up any theory. Nevertheless, of those that link the title to features of the music itself, Evnine believes harpsichordist Luke Arnason's is the most plausible:
"The title Les Barricades Mystérieuses is probably meant to be evocative rather than a reference to a specific object, musical or otherwise. Scott Ross, in a master class filmed and distributed by Harmonia Mundi, likens the piece to a train. This clearly cannot have been the precise image Couperin was trying to convey, but it is easy to hear in Les Barricades the image of a heavy but fast-moving object that picks up momentum. In that sense, the mysterious barricades are perhaps those which cause the "train" to slow down and sometimes stop... This hypothesis seems to fit in with the pedagogical aims of Couperin's music, since the composer presents himself as something of a specialist in building sound through legato, style luthé playing...Moreover, it seems to form a set with the following piece, Les Bergeries. This latter piece, though more melodic than Les Barricades, set in a higher register and more bucolic in feeling, is also an exercise in using a repetitive motif (in this case a left hand ostinato evocative of the musette) to build sound without seeming mechanical or repetitive. Both Les Barricades Mystérieuses and Les Bergeries, then, are exercises in building (and relaxing) sound and momentum elegantly."
While the title reflects the musical structure, there may be more at play. The suggestion of barricades is "a double entendre referring simultaneously to feminine virginity and the suspensions [of] harmonic [progressions] of the music, [whose] lute figurations [from the style brisé] are imitated to produce an enigmatic stalemate", as Judith Robison Kipnis explained the work's title and its interpretation by her husband Igor Kipnis.
Other suggested meanings for the title include:
- impeding communication between people,
- between past and present or present and future,
- between life and death,
- between the immanent and transcendent,
- women's underwear,
- allegedly a common way of referring to women's eyelashes among the Salonnière of the 17th century,
- masks worn by performers of Le Mystère ou les Fêtes de l'Inconnu (The Mysterious One or the Celebrations of the Unknown One) staged by one of Couperin's patrons, the Duchesse du Maine in 1714,
- a "technical joke...the continuous suspensions in the lute style being a barricade to the basic harmony".
The piece has been used as a source of inspiration by many others across different artistic fields including music, visual arts and literature. Some have simply used the title while others have created new works inspired by the original.
Style brisé (French: "broken style") is a general term for irregular arpeggiated texture in instrumental music of the Baroque period. It is commonly used in discussion of music for lute, keyboard instruments, or the viol.
The original French term, in use around 1700, is style luthé ("lute style"). It was used by François Couperin when referring to arpeggiated textures in his pieces such as La Mézangère, Les Charmes and Les Barricades Mystérieuses. Continuous pieces with an abundance of irregularly broken chords originated in French lute music of the 17th century.
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I can't stop listening to this piece, so full of beauty, passion and melancholy.I did'nt know this version for harp, but I think this instrument suits perfectly this music.
Such music! And on harp! And for an hour! It is great. By no means boring, as some people write here.
Possibly the most beautiful, melancholic piece of music ever written !! Couper!n
Merci beaucoup! Bonne nuit, tout le monde
J adore la musique baroque elle est d'une grande poésie, sensibilité, et d une grande beauté elle caresse notre âme et notre coeur
Thank you. Beautiful tune and arrangement.
On the harp? Wow. The tempo is artistically evolved. The fingerwork feels relaxed/natural. Holy God, this has just become one of my favorites. Must be something about the harp...
Is that a separate bass? Or is it the harp? if not a separate bass I am truly stunned.
The feel of the bass is incredible...palpable. The wood that makes this resonance is God's own gift to our ears.
Outstanding recording, thank you sincerely.
Спасибо вам , волшебное исполнение
Such a wondrous piece of music, and performed on so many different instruments elsewhere, as here, where it is lovely
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников 🤗
Par harpe Couperin très unique et merveilleux. On voit bien son côté stoïque. C’est une performance qui mérite
d’être écoutée.
Makes for great post-hangover tunes. 💥🌸🌺
I'm working on getting one now. I'lllet you know
Beautifully played
Quand on touche au sublime ...
Uma hora maravilhosa de música sublime de F. Couperin. Obrigado 🙏🏻
Thank you Maurice Ravel for bringing me to Couperin!
same here
same here
C'est répétitifs, contrairement à l'original qui ne lasse pas.
I tend to agree, even though I enjoy her playing. For more zip, listen to Trevor Pinnock on the harpsichord.
Merci beaucoup !
Llegué aquí luego de leer Imprimatur.
Allí se menciona repetidamente las bondades sanadoras de las Baricades mistérieuses. También le adjudican su autoría a Francesco Corbetta.
Gracias, saludos desde Argentina.
Hola. ¿A qué Imprimatur te refieres? Me da curiosidad tu comentario, porque estaban pareciéndome tan reconfortantes; y luego entré a mirar lo que dicen otros y te leí... :)
Precioso
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Joy
Anyway that I can learn this myself on my celtic harp? I do play it on the piano. Do you have a transcription for the harp that I can obtain. I love this for so many years.. But never heard of it on the harp! Thank you thank you
Hi Lauren! Unfortunately, I do not have such a transcription. I don't play the harp and in this case I used a ready-made recording.
Thank you for letting me know. @@quietophone
I play it on celtic harp, it's not very difficult
@@mandarinlearner I have it learned now myself. Holiday goal.
Sanador
way to rubato and romantic in interpretation... but interesting rendition with the bass so clearly separated. It's almost pop music.
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it's not at 432 hz..
women's underwear??? 😄
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I think you are correct, especially in the 1700s!
This is just phantasms, in the 16- 17 century no one ( men or women) wore underwear.
You've butchered it.
How?
Listen to any other recording and it'll be obvious.