Choral Chameleon - El Grillo by Josquin Des Prez

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By Josquin Des Prez (ca. 1440-1521) ed. Rafael Ornes
Performed by Choral Chameleon Ensemble at “Storytime: Part Two”
Filmed at Acme Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, May 2015
Conducted by Vince Peterson
Words:
El grillo è buon cantore
Che tiene longo verso.
Dalle beve grillo canta.
Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli
Come li han cantato un poco,
Van de fatto in altro loco
Sempre el grillo sta pur saldo,
Quando la maggior el caldo
Alhor canta sol per amore.
Choral Chameleon Ensemble:
Erika Lloyd
Liz Hanna
Julie Waters
Heather Michele Meyer
Sharon Harms
Kelly Baxter-Golding
Jonathan May
Bill Heigen
Alex Canovas
Kevin Rose
Cameron Bernard Jones
Mark Johnson
Joseph Bellino
Andy Cook-Feltz
Stage Directed by Liz Ostler
Lighting Design by Jason Fok
Filmed & Edited by Memetic Studios
Produced by Nicole Belmont
www.choralchameleon.com
Ensemble I Chorus I Institute

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@merryhunt9153 10 ай бұрын

Such fine singing. So beautifully together!

@tythemisfit 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but I was suddenly thinking about this song from elementary school that we learned in music class and I found it

@jackxie7679 5 жыл бұрын

Who's here for music theory?

@linneaqua 5 жыл бұрын

me :sigh: i nearly died from trying to add rests...

@linneaqua 5 жыл бұрын

i'll probably fail that part of the exam

@ruthliu259 3 жыл бұрын

Me. I did half of one of my practise exam and got bored.

@strat0s559 3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAAH

@adrianasilver71 3 жыл бұрын

Studying for music School , Singing...

@nelsonwalker7105 3 жыл бұрын

heard this on classical music radio station this mornign and wanted to hear it again. i love this.

@saltedsins 7 жыл бұрын

My mom used to sing this to me

@wo0nz 4 жыл бұрын

Salted Sins good for you then 😊 because my mom doesn’t sing for me 😞

@yeah8598 3 жыл бұрын

@@wo0nz valorize you mom anyway dude

@TheMaestrovince 4 жыл бұрын

Hi all! Thanks for watching and liking this video! I'm Vince Peterson, the Founding Artistic Director of Choral Chameleon. I'd like to address the many comments about the pronunciation of "Grillo". Actually, the word "Grillo" is borrowed from Spanish in this case which is why all the words are pronounced in Italian (the language the composer - who was not Italian at all, but was Franco-Flemish) EXCEPT that word. As you can tell, all other pronunciations except for that word are in proper Italian. We know that Grillo is supposed to be pronounced as in Spanish, though, because the article in front of it "El" as chosen by the composer is also the Spanish article.

@darioalberto1128 2 жыл бұрын

So, the entire song is in old Italian but the word "grillo" is in Spanish"? The word "grillo" also exists in Italian, and "el" is just an old (and not anymore used) Italian article.

@LazierSophie Жыл бұрын

Josquin des Prez was surely "un Francophone" (a native French-speaker who was born in Northern France or French-speaking Belgium). As a native French-speaker, it was easy for him to learn the Italian language at that time. It is also nowadays very easy for "Francophones" (French-speaking people) to learn Romance (neo-Latin) languages such as Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan and Italian.

@christopherburge9340 3 ай бұрын

"el" is also the Lombard/Milanese pronoun. "Italian" didn't exist when the song was written, but it doesn't really match any particular dialect of the era (Milanese, Florentine, Castillian, or French) either. It's a song written in vernacular by a second language speaker at a time at which languages as a whole were much less standardized. We don't know for sure how "grillo" was meant to be pronounced, but even if it were meant to be Spanish (which would be unusual coming from a Frenchman who lived mainly in Milan), the ll in Spain at that time was mainly pronounced like the li in "million." In modern Milanese it would be an ungeminated "gri-lo."

@GednilsonFreitas 3 жыл бұрын

Minha música preferida 🤩

@gaara125able 7 жыл бұрын

So beautiful...

@kimballmcmullin6861 4 жыл бұрын

gaara125able no

@shirleyxialei9773 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. I love this version. Nice Conducting!!!!

@ellaghirardi 5 жыл бұрын

i am learning this song in music class at my school and i am italian!!!!!!!!!!!

@AloneIsntLonely Жыл бұрын

I sang this song in high school choir

@robertlowell909 2 ай бұрын

RERESI_SI_

@merryhunt9153 9 ай бұрын

Just a comment about language: I'm American, and my foreign language is German. Recently I went to Italy, and when I needed to communicate, I found that a word from Spanish or French would work. European countries are so much smaller than the US or Canada, and people have traveled to other countries and even have relatives from other countries. Also, as you approach a border, the more people know words from the nation next door. That's why people are perfectly fine with singing a Spanish word in a song in Italian.

@lizethfernandamunozmunoz7989 5 жыл бұрын

Es increíble la música de ahora tiempos, quisiera saber en que año mas o menos es todo esto, aunque se que es de la edad media pero de todas maneras, es impresionante en ese tiempo solo música polifónica y ahora un director dirige varios instrumentos, osea en ese tiempo solo eran como diez y cantando y ahora una orquesta tiene muchos músicos, el director, el cantante, los coristas, los bailarines y los que tocan los instrumentos, osea es un cambio muy radical.

@yo.116 10 ай бұрын

My teacher used this song in music

@SueJacobsFeingold 9 жыл бұрын

Brilliant performance of El Grillo! By any choir, anywhere!

@theopaopa1 4 жыл бұрын

congratulations !

@andrewroberts8139 6 жыл бұрын

Is there some reason why the conductor is kneeling??

@whosaprettykitty5076 6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Roberts so the audience can see the performers?

@SilviaReginaAngerami 4 ай бұрын

I wonder why too....

@kyrachen9108 4 жыл бұрын

Does it mean cricket? If yes,that’s so funny!The song sounds like crickets!:) So beautiful!

@ChoralChameleonNYC 4 жыл бұрын

yes it does!

@amandafick6692 9 ай бұрын

This is what we listen to hin music

@jonasaugustojf 3 жыл бұрын

Grilo here in brasil is not a good insect... They eat our crops... But they sing in the mornig...when the sun comes up the Grillios going crazy

@ladybug8495 5 жыл бұрын

I sang at my high school in 2012

@Icedoge 8 ай бұрын

Im here cuz i went to a diff school for muisc memery i remeber this one and the star wars a new hope too!

@newsha5023 2 жыл бұрын

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

@dylanthomas1446 3 жыл бұрын

I have yet to find a rendition of this piece that is better than the one from the Prophets of the Perfect Fifth ensemble.

@shanosan 7 жыл бұрын

nice sounding rendition. the pronunciation is not very good though... they are pronouncing Grillo as it is done in Spanish not Italian.

@ChoralChameleonNYC 2 жыл бұрын

See comment above about that pronunciation choice.

@Octaveathepolymath Жыл бұрын

No-one really knows how Italian was pronounced 500yrs ago or how Latin was pronounced in Roman times.

@michaelxie9575 5 жыл бұрын

Who’s here for level 8 theory

@wo0nz 4 жыл бұрын

Me 😂

@michaelxie9575 4 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@ruthliu259 3 жыл бұрын

@jonasaugustojf 3 жыл бұрын

But i got the Maritacas too...they decied build a nest right above my room

@markhbfindlay 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely, but did you forget your music stand?

@ChoralChameleonNYC 2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@biancagonzalez5921 11 ай бұрын

Does anyone know what era it was from?

@matthesdittmann6165 10 ай бұрын

The Composer ist Josquin Desprez. He was around 1450 and died 1521

@jr7964 8 ай бұрын

Was it a sacred or secular piece?

@L1102 2 ай бұрын

Secular

@averywagner9425 4 жыл бұрын

Why do you pronounce “grillo” wrong? The song is Italian, not spanish.

@VFella 4 жыл бұрын

Fact is: You don't know if it is wrong. This is not modern Italian but XV - XVI Century Italian and it may be a dialect to boot. The "ll" sound is also somewhat softer than in modern Spanish and XVI Century Castillian Spanish may have used a schwa in the "LL" sound, which is BTW the correct spelling of this sound in modern Castillian Spanish (how do I know? It's one of my mother tongues). In Italy a 'dialect' is somewhat different from just a different accent, some even belong to different linguistic groups. There is an interesting paper about this particular subject but related to high medieval German in the Minnesang (Mittelhochdeutsch, X - XIV centuries) www.minnesang.com/Themen/Ulrich%20Mueller%20zur%20Aussprache.pdf German is also one of my native languages BTW. The fact is that we do not know how it was pronounced as there were no pronunciation guides. Thus, this interpretation is as good as any other as the only way to get it right would be to take a time machine. Not to mention that the composer Josquin des Prez was French, so that the original interpretation in the French courts may have sounded even more different.

@wo0nz 4 жыл бұрын

Enric Martinez wow..... that’s a lot you’ve written there 😳

@giorgiolamborghini813 3 жыл бұрын

@@VFella The Italian language from the time of Dante Alighieri (thirteenth century) has changed very little, unlike the Anglo-Saxon languages. It is also true that grillo is still called grilo in the Venetian dialect; however in this simple polyphonic piece, there are many pronunciation errors and the doubles are never pronounced as 'dalle', 'uccelli' where they pronounce dale and uceli. So, if the author had wanted to write it in the Venetian dialect, he would certainly have written without doubles, but he would have written the other words in Venetian as well; I'm Italian and I know the Venetian dialect. The choir is certainly good but lacking in the Italian language.

@pebbles5450 3 жыл бұрын

@@wo0nz They know their shit

@okay800 2 жыл бұрын

El grillo, el grillo è buon cantore Che tiene longo verso Dalle (dalle) beve (beve) grillo (grillo) canta (canta) Dalle dalle, beve beve, grillo grilo, canta El grillo, el grillo è buon cantore Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli Come li han cantato un poco Quando la maggior el caldo Alhor canta sol per amore El grillo, el grillo è buon cantore Che tiene longo verso Dalle (dalle) beve (beve) ts-tss (ts-tss) ts-tss (ts-tss) Dalle dalle, beve beve, grillo grilo, canta El grillo, el grillo è buon cantore Van de fatto in altro loco Sempre el grillo sta pur saldo Quando la maggior el caldo Alhor canta sol per amore

@DonVueltaMorales 4 жыл бұрын

... pero ... en italiano ... "gri *LL* o" ... ¿si? The North Side of Williamsburg, not "los sures." ;-).

@davidzuercher 3 жыл бұрын

came here for this... yes it should sound like the double L in Bello, Straciatella, Donatella, etc...

@ikmarchini 3 жыл бұрын

Dear Sir, the choir will never be able to breath properly until you stand up.

@ChoralChameleonNYC 2 жыл бұрын

ikmarchini, this was a limitation employed because of the staging in this particular case. It's not something that we frequently do, and we assure you that our singers have no problems breathing, nor would they ever be disregarded in this way under our artistic leadership.

@robertlowell909 2 ай бұрын

beniamino'

@takar9316 4 жыл бұрын

どうして指揮者正座なの？

@ChoralChameleonNYC 4 жыл бұрын

Taka R 私たちはカジュアルな雰囲気を作りたかったので、合唱団の近くになるように床に座って多くの人々を招待しました

@takar9316 4 жыл бұрын

Choral Chameleon わざわざ日本語でのご回答ありがとうございます。これは失礼いたしました。

@ChoralChameleonNYC 4 жыл бұрын

Taka R 私たちは自分の仕事についての質問が大好きです。好奇心旺盛でありがとうございます。

@laliolaliou997 6 жыл бұрын

maestro.... don't sit like this...

@stecklein7 6 жыл бұрын

LOL! He was dong well though...

@ChoralChameleonNYC 5 жыл бұрын

@Massimo Falomi ;-)

@paralysisbyanalysis2287 3 жыл бұрын

Tough song and the ensemble sings the rhythms accurately. With that said, however, those sopranos are continuously flat.

@lizethfernandamunozmunoz7989 5 жыл бұрын

@jos3115 2 жыл бұрын

se hizo en el renacimientos (siglo 16 )

@lizethfernandamunozmunoz7989 5 жыл бұрын

@olgacostas266 3 жыл бұрын

El grillo es una obra de Josquin des Prez que vivió más o menos desde el 1440 hasta el 1521, es de la época del Renacimiento, de la 3a generación francoflamenca