Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s mysterious enharmonic passage

For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link:

Created by Elam Rotem and Johannes Keller

Soprano: Alice Borciani
Organ: Johannes Keller
Audio: Omri Abram

Special thanks to Anne Smith and the Hochschule für Musik Basel / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

[kipling]

All praise to the soprano hitting those enharmonic notes!

[Thejhansiway]

teacher: You were flat!
Me: um, it was an Enharmonic choice. please take it up with Cavalieri.

[AdamNeely]

Dang, this was such a great video. Great performance and great research!

[josephsummer]

I didn’t expect the passage to be played with the microtonal components. KUDOS to the performers for accomplishing this.

[yuvalne]

Listening to such old music using compositional tools modern composers are only now rediscovering... Incredible.

[ArthurSieg]

Fascinating! As soon as the singer hits the enharmonic chromatic note, I completely lose my sense of the tonality. The final resolution comes as a wonderful surprise. I would love to hear a complete recording of this piece with the microtonal ending.

[natheniel]

Now I must binge watch every video in your channel.

[XistoKente]

9:45
The build-up to the final note is so piercing, it almost hurts! But when it's finally hit, it feels rewarding and soothing.

[JethroCombate]

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9:32
9:32
To those who want to keep repeating the enharmonic passage, here you go!

[riversandstones]

Now THIS is a music channel. Professional, straight to the point.

[robappleby]

Fascinating. It's notable that the final cadential passage in the organ is much more elaborate in the enharmonic version, to drive home the music's arrival at the tonic after its long enharmonic pilgrimage.

[keithbray]

Every video I watch just makes me even more enthusiastic about renaissance music. MICROTONES!?

[thelonious-dxvi]

Excellent. The singing seemed almost impossible. Great stuff, cheers.

[thecatofnineswords]

That was a grand and disturbing experience.
I love it. Alice's smile of happiness on successful completion of the micro-semitones was wonderful to see.

[MarkHoemmen]

Alice YOU ROCK it was amazing to hear you nail that part!!!

[dosgos]

What an interesting episode! Alice has a wonderful voice.

[GreenPersimmon]

The vocalist absolutely nailed those crazy notes. Wow.

[KevinSiebert]

I've been looking for this video again for months

[Doeff]

That enharmonic passage, when performed by Alice, gets me crying. Wonderful.

[yugandali]

I know little about music theory, but those notes tingled my teeth.