This was a gift for a friend who requested this composition with birds and 'drones'. The first version had insect drones, but this version uses sine-wave drones (because they're easier to process). The birds are from the wonderful collections of reinsamba and dobroide. Basically, an attempt to bring music into nature. The composition is "Bransle L'Official" by Arbeau, a popular 16th C. dance tune eventually turned into the carol, "Ding Dong Merrily On High". (Thus the Christmas title.) A Bransle was a popular Renaissance dance: Arbeau wrote a major treatise on such dances, "Orchésographie". The piano rendition is mine. (Arbeau's real name, by the way, was Jehan Tabourot, and he lived in the 16th C. and wrote numerous bransle and other compositions). The samples are:

17185_reinsamba_Nightingale_song_3.wav;
4215_dobroide_nightingale.contest.day.mp3;
17353_dobroide_20060326.marshes.shrike.kite.wav;
4201_dobroide_blackbird_largedog_dusk.mp3.

Comments

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  evebelle 4 years, 6 months ago

  great sound.

  ty for sharing ;-)
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  sanus_excipio 5 years, 4 months ago

  I like the way this opens - as if i have come through a garden to a house of music. I open the door and tiptoe in. the music rises and opens its arms to me. the birds are happy the music has found me.
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  jobsworth 5 years, 5 months ago

  I like the chords you use. Very evocative piece.
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  Kittybriton 5 years, 5 months ago

  A wonderful piece of work! would "magical" be too strong a description? not in my opinion.
  Yes, today most people know it as "Ding dong merrily on high" but carols were originally dance tunes, and it's not hard to imagine a group of dancers rejoicing in some ancient place reclaimed by nature.