Hume - Poeticall Musicke/ Fischer - Topographic Long-Range
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Label: Zig Zag Territoires
Cat No: ZZT100501
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 4th October 2010
Contents
Artists
Marianne Muller (viola da gamba)Lian Fennelly (viola da gamba)
Pau Marcos (viola da gamba)
Artists
Marianne Muller (viola da gamba)Lian Fennelly (viola da gamba)
Pau Marcos (viola da gamba)
About
Little is known of Hume’s life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a pre-requisite to which was being at least 60 years old, though there is no certainty over this. He had made his living as a professional soldier, probably as a mercenary. He was an officer with the Swedish and Russian armies.
His published music includes pieces for viols (including many solo works for the lyra viol) and songs. They were gathered in two collections, The First Part of Ayres (or Musicall Humors, 1605) and Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke (1607). He was a particular champion of the viol over the then-dominant lute, something which caused John Dowland to publish a rebuttal of Hume's ideas.
Hume was also known as a prankster, as some of his somewhat unusual compositions illustrate. His most notorious piece was "An Invention for Two to Play upone one Viole". Two bows are required and the smaller of the two players is obliged to sit in the lap of the larger player. This work was notated in tablature and is indeed technically possible to play. His instructions to "drum this with the backe of your bow" in another piece, "Harke, harke," constitute the earliest known use of col legno in Western music.
Eric Fischer has composed more than 200 works, which range from pieces for solo instrument to symphonic form by way of every type of instrumental forces and the most diverse experiences, including chamber music, electronics, vocal works, incidental music for the theatre, improvised music and pieces for period instruments. His openness to encounters of all kinds has led to other highly unusual artistic exchanges.
Track Listing:
Tobias Hume
1. Captaine Humes Pavan
2. A Soldier's Gaillard
3. What Greater Griefe: premier couplet
4. A Question
5. An Answere
6. Touch me sweetly
7. The Virgins Muse
8. Musicke and Mirth
9. Tinckeldum Twinckeldum
10. Sweet Musicke
11. Good Again
Eric Fischer
12. Premier duo: Rock
13. Geosophique Sources
14. Geosophique Concordancia discordancium
15. Geosophique Medius
16. Geosophique De l’abrupt
17. Geosophique Coda
18. Deuxième duo
19. La clepsydre
Tobias Hume
20. What Greater Griefe: deuxième couplet
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