Sunday, November 27, 2011

Marche pour le ceremonie des turcs by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)

This music is fitting to it's title since it does sound like a march to me.  The only instruments in use in the beginning are strings and some percussion.  Then the second time through the whole form it adds some kind of flutes/piccolos to the melody.  The melody is fairly familiar to me, as it comes from a CD I own called "The Movies Go Baroque" and features 16 songs from the Baroque era that have all been used in a movie before.  I think I am going to pick 5 more songs from this CD for my next entries.  I am looking for a score to see if it matches what I am hearing because it says on the CD that it was arranged by two people.  I found the score and it pretty much matches up with what I am listening to except that the score shows the form to be AABB and in my version I am listening to it only goes AAB (doesn't take the repeat of the B).  It plays through the whole song three times in all, each successive time it builds a little more in volume and instrumentation.  It is a short and catchy tune, and I like humming it to myself.        

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