I have been listening to Striggio's Mass in 40 parts and Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium, and again my mind has turned to people with big ideas. Music, for me, is as near as can be to a "spiritual" experience and to have the imagination and creativity to produce work of this magnitude is simply amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y
Both works were written in 40 parts and demonstrate an ability to hear a complexity of harmony that is extraordinary. As it happens both works are based on religious texts, which mean nothing to me, but the music is overwhelmingly beautiful.
I once heard the Tallis in an art gallery in Ottawa. A room had been transformed into a chapel and an "Artist" had arranged 40 loudspeakers on stands around the room. Each part had been recorded separately and to stand in the centre of the room gave an all round experience.
Beethoven was recorded as being totally deaf by the time that he completed his Ninth Symphony and so he must have been able to hear the complete work in his head. To listen to that piece is an amazing experience anyway, but to know that the creator was deaf adds a new dimension.
Music has amazing power and its influence on emotions and to some extent behaviour is not to be underestimated. Perhaps musicians should rule the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y
Both works were written in 40 parts and demonstrate an ability to hear a complexity of harmony that is extraordinary. As it happens both works are based on religious texts, which mean nothing to me, but the music is overwhelmingly beautiful.
I once heard the Tallis in an art gallery in Ottawa. A room had been transformed into a chapel and an "Artist" had arranged 40 loudspeakers on stands around the room. Each part had been recorded separately and to stand in the centre of the room gave an all round experience.
Beethoven was recorded as being totally deaf by the time that he completed his Ninth Symphony and so he must have been able to hear the complete work in his head. To listen to that piece is an amazing experience anyway, but to know that the creator was deaf adds a new dimension.
Music has amazing power and its influence on emotions and to some extent behaviour is not to be underestimated. Perhaps musicians should rule the world.
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