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In his Apologetics, he writes: “even in his triumph, as rides in that most exalted chariot, he is reminded that he is a man. This idea of being “reminded from behind” comes from Tertullian. It “reminds us from behind”, as shown by John of Kastav in his famous fresco. This song and the choreography in both performances above are a memento mori - a medieval and Renaissance concept reminding us, by way of different art forms, of the inevitability of death. The way the last candle goes out at the end of the presentation reinforced the theme of the Passacaglia della Vita. Watch the performance in Venice (starts at 1:01:01) With the support of his father Ranieri, the family patriarch who laments the death of the Republic of Venice and the mounting woes for its dwindling residents, the concert took place in a unique setting with chiaroscuro lighting and classical decorations. Francesco da Mosto, architect and documentary producer, lives with his family on an uninhabited island in Venice’s lagoon. The da Mosto family has lived in Venice for over 900 years.
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The contrast between fragility and permanence is starker when set against the background of stone architecture and sculptures.Īnother performance of this song was the encore to the annual concert organized by the Venetian Center for Baroque Music in 2014 at the Palazzo da Mosto - a 13th century palace, the oldest in the Grand Canal, currently being renovated to become a luxury hotel.ĭrawing of first floor windows of Ca’ da Mosto by Carlo Naya (1870) In Beasley’s performance, I find that the video itself reinforces the message - the way the musicians enter and leave the scene underscores the fragility and ephemerality of life. Having begun his career singing traditional Napolitan songs, Beasley is a master of the Recitar Cantando style - the Renaissance art of singing while acting. The music above was performed by L’Arpeggiata with tenor Marco Beasley. Listen to “Passacaglia della Vita” Italian dialectĪccording to Paul Archer, who translated this madrigal, early music “has the feeling of ‘pure music’, stripped back to its bones without the lushness of later sonorities…Similarly the lyrics that inspired this music had to have an immediate impact on listeners, with texts that seek to immediately transport the audience into a state of heightened emotion while evoking the rapture and vicissitudes of life and love.” This early 17th century madrigal is anonymous, but is sometimes attributed to Stefano Landi (1587-1639). As we are now in Lententide, which in essence is a memento mori, I thought this would be a good topic for exploration.įor this topic, I found it best to start with lyrics that speak for themselves, and therefore we jump straight to the music: Passacaglia della Vita. With music we can express what we often have no words to say early music has a particular and effective way at penetrating deep into human emotions, which is especially relevant at the difficult moments we live through.