#La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid

[saltwaterandstars]

I'm in my Master and Commander feels this evening. Their friendship! The cheekiness! The Boccherini!

And because this clip cuts off the end of the Boccherini, here's a video of two cool ladies playing the whole thing - well, the whole thing in terms of the duet that's played in the film - it's not the whole piece, but it is completely joyous:

[papercranesong]

One of my favourite things about the Aubrey/ Maturin series is when Jack and Stephen have been playing their music together and then they wake up the next day and it’s just like they’ve been sound-blasted, and the music stays with them throughout the day, like a backdrop of Boccherini or whoever.

[gigamuffin]

Here, I have a gift: *Plays La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid by Boccherini at top volume*

[thiefbird]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

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my beloved cat, Cirrus. Light of my life, most faithful companion, truly the cat of the world as Stephen Maturin would say

speaking of, the aubreyad/temeraire/hornblower. truly, my brain is solely dedicated to weird fictional men in the napoleonic war. And also Diana Villiers my beloved.

fibre arts. i love fibre arts. crochet, knitting, sewing, spinning, weaving, needle felting. give me Colourful Soft Things and i will Create

La musica notturna delle strade di madrid by Boccherini. i play the allegro at least 5x a day on guitar at work. probably more like 15. my coworkers are all really tired of it i think but TOO BAD its so pretty and spritely

writing. writing fiction, writing fanfiction, writing music, writing essays. my brain just wants to Make Words Happen

[married-to-a-redhead]

Soothing Sunday classical music. Pairs nicely with a wee dram of scotch.

[swingindoorsusan]

*humming la musica notturna delle strade di madrid*

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[musicwithoutborders]

Luigi Boccherini / Jordi Savall · Rolf Lislevand · Le Concert des Nations, Quintetto in Do Maggiore La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid Op. 30, No. 6, G. 324: Passa Calle - Allegro Vivo, 2005

[lemongrad]

I've been in a Master and Commander mood lately

[solitary-requiem]

Even better - accepting a gig offer and looking at the list of repertoire and seeing a boccherini piece you don’t recognize only to listen to it for the first time and realize MASTER AND COMMANDER next thing you know you’re performing “la musica notturna delle strade di madrid” and basically getting paid to pretend you’re jack aubrey

That moment when you're at a classical concert and you don't recognize any of the piece names in the program but one of them sounds familiar and suddenly you realize MASTER AND COMMANDER

[viaggianteviaggi]

Viaggio a Barcellona, città dell'architettura.

Parti in viaggio a Barcellona, la città nel nord-est della Spagna e capitale della regione della Catalogna. Barcellona è la seconda città più popolosa della Spagna dopo Madrid. Ha una popolazione di circa 5,5 milioni di persone ed è famosa per l'arte, l'architettura, le spiagge, il cibo e la cultura.La città ha una ricca storia che risale all'epoca romana. E' stata fondata come città romana nel I secolo a.C. La città è stata governata da vari imperi tra cui i Visigoti, i Mori e il Regno di Aragona. E' stata anche una città importante durante la guerra civile di Spagna.Barcellona ospita alcuni dei monumenti più famosi al mondo ed è famosa per la sua architettura, comprese le opere di Antoni Gaudi. La più famosa delle opere di Gaudí è la Sagrada Familia, una chiesa incompiuta in costruzione dal 1882. L'edificio è noto per il suo design unico e non convenzionale.Un altro famoso punto di riferimento è il Parco Guell. Il parco è un parco pubblico progettato da Gaudi ed è noto per le sue tessere a mosaico, gli edifici colorati e i giardini. Il parco offre una vista mozzafiato sulla città e sul Mar Mediterraneo.

Barcellona - riconoscimento dell'UNESCO per l'architettura modernista

Barcellona è una città d'arte e cultura. La città ospita il Museo Picasso, che ospita alcune delle opere più famose dell'artista. Il museo si trova nel quartiere del Born, noto per le sue strade strette e l'architettura gotica.Ospita anche il Museo Joan Miro, che espone le opere del famoso artista catalano. Il museo si trova a Montjuic, una collina che domina la città. La collina ospita anche lo Stadio Olimpico, utilizzato durante i Giochi Olimpici del 1992.E' famosa inoltre per il suo cibo e le sue bevande. La città è nota per le sue tapas, piccoli piatti di cibo pensati per essere condivisi. Alcune delle tapas più popolari di Barcellona includono patatas bravas, crocchette e tortilla.La città è nota anche per la sua paella, un piatto di riso tradizionalmente cucinato con frutti di mare, pollo o verdure. Il piatto viene solitamente servito in grandi padelle ed è un pasto popolare da condividere con amici o familiari.

Viaggio a Barcellona: tra le 10 migliori città sostenibili al mondo

Barcellona è famosa anche per la sua vita notturna. La città ha una vita notturna vivace e vivace con numerosi bar, club e locali di musica dal vivo. Alcune delle zone più popolari per la vita notturna di Barcellona includono il Quartiere Gotico, El Raval e Gracia.Puoi trovare anche alcune delle migliori spiagge d'Europa. La città ha più di 4 km di spiagge sabbiose, tra cui Barceloneta e Nova Icaria. Le spiagge sono frequentate sia dalla gente del posto che dai turisti e offrono una serie di attività come nuotare, prendere il sole e sport acquatici.In conclusione, Barcellona è una città che ha qualcosa per tutti. Che tu sia interessato all'arte, all'architettura, al cibo o alle spiagge, Barcellona ha tutto. La città è una destinazione perfetta per un weekend o una vacanza più lunga. Se non l'hai già visitata, assicurati di aggiungerla alla tua lista dei desideri di viaggio. Vedi se oltre a Barcellona possono interessarti queste destinazioni europee. Read the full article

[werewolvesandaccordions]

Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today]. Boccherini wrote this while he was working in Spain under the Royal Court, and in the piece he depicts the sounds and emotions of walking down the streets of Madrid at night. The opening is almost modern, the “bells” of a church ring to prompt the nightly Ave Maria, the plucking instruments echo…there is a lot of silence, and then we hear kettle drums off distance, soldiers marching, and after this evocative introduction we get a charming street minuet ‘of the blind beggars’, here the cellists are told to hold their instruments on their laps and strum them like guitars. After we fall into a gorgeous meditation, the Rosary, and we can picture cycling through the beads as we walk on. Next comes the “passacaglia”, though it isn’t in the dressed up courtly form, the passacaglia [from the Spanish pasacalle, cross the street] was what Spaniards called a fun tune that one would sing to themselves as they walk around. So instead of the galant court music we have the pasacalle in its vulgar street form, full of fun. And finally we have the night’s watch, guards closing down the streets for curfew, which became a popular movement from the work. The piece exploded in popularity throughout Spain, but didn’t spread outward until after Boccherini’s death. About the work, he said “The piece is absolutely useless, even ridiculous, outside Spain because the audience cannot hope to understand its significance nor the performers to play it as it should be played”. In a pre-globalized world, this is understandable. Imagine that, actually visiting the country of Spain which you’d only heard stories about growing up, and experiencing its culture, vibrancy, and energy first hand, knowing that you couldn’t describe it in a way that would do it justice to others. Boccherini was an insightful “orchestrator” with his music, here we can look at the effects he creates to give off the impression of sounds off in the distance versus sounds right in front of us, the “night’s watch” movement being a great example, where he paints them as coming and going through the soundscape, he writes, “One must imagine sitting next to the window on a summer’s night in a Madrid flat and that the band can only be heard in the far-off distance in some other part of the city, so at first it must be played quite softly. Slowly the music grows louder and louder until it is very loud, indicating the Night Watch are passing directly under the listener’s window. Then gradually the volume decreases and again becomes faint as the band moves off down the street into the distance.” Movements: 1. Le campane de l’Ave Maria 2. Il tamburo dei Soldati 3. Minuetto dei Ciechi 4. Il Rosario. Largo assai – Allegro – Largo come prima 5. Passa Calle (Allegro vivo) 6. Il tamburo 7. Ritirata (Maestoso)

mikrokosmos: Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today].…

[tinas-art]

Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today]. Boccherini wrote this while he was working in Spain under the Royal Court, and in the piece he depicts the sounds and emotions of walking down the streets of Madrid at night. The opening is almost modern, the “bells” of a church ring to prompt the nightly Ave Maria, the plucking instruments echo…there is a lot of silence, and then we hear kettle drums off distance, soldiers marching, and after this evocative introduction we get a charming street minuet ‘of the blind beggars’, here the cellists are told to hold their instruments on their laps and strum them like guitars. After we fall into a gorgeous meditation, the Rosary, and we can picture cycling through the beads as we walk on. Next comes the “passacaglia”, though it isn’t in the dressed up courtly form, the passacaglia [from the Spanish pasacalle, cross the street] was what Spaniards called a fun tune that one would sing to themselves as they walk around. So instead of the galant court music we have the pasacalle in its vulgar street form, full of fun. And finally we have the night’s watch, guards closing down the streets for curfew, which became a popular movement from the work. The piece exploded in popularity throughout Spain, but didn’t spread outward until after Boccherini’s death. About the work, he said “The piece is absolutely useless, even ridiculous, outside Spain because the audience cannot hope to understand its significance nor the performers to play it as it should be played”. In a pre-globalized world, this is understandable. Imagine that, actually visiting the country of Spain which you’d only heard stories about growing up, and experiencing its culture, vibrancy, and energy first hand, knowing that you couldn’t describe it in a way that would do it justice to others. Boccherini was an insightful “orchestrator” with his music, here we can look at the effects he creates to give off the impression of sounds off in the distance versus sounds right in front of us, the “night’s watch” movement being a great example, where he paints them as coming and going through the soundscape, he writes, “One must imagine sitting next to the window on a summer’s night in a Madrid flat and that the band can only be heard in the far-off distance in some other part of the city, so at first it must be played quite softly. Slowly the music grows louder and louder until it is very loud, indicating the Night Watch are passing directly under the listener’s window. Then gradually the volume decreases and again becomes faint as the band moves off down the street into the distance.” Movements: 1. Le campane de l’Ave Maria 2. Il tamburo dei Soldati 3. Minuetto dei Ciechi 4. Il Rosario. Largo assai – Allegro – Largo come prima 5. Passa Calle (Allegro vivo) 6. Il tamburo 7. Ritirata (Maestoso)

mikrokosmos: Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today].…

[dariaandjanelanefanboy]

Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today]. Boccherini wrote this while he was working in Spain under the Royal Court, and in the piece he depicts the sounds and emotions of walking down the streets of Madrid at night. The opening is almost modern, the “bells” of a church ring to prompt the nightly Ave Maria, the plucking instruments echo…there is a lot of silence, and then we hear kettle drums off distance, soldiers marching, and after this evocative introduction we get a charming street minuet ‘of the blind beggars’, here the cellists are told to hold their instruments on their laps and strum them like guitars. After we fall into a gorgeous meditation, the Rosary, and we can picture cycling through the beads as we walk on. Next comes the “passacaglia”, though it isn’t in the dressed up courtly form, the passacaglia [from the Spanish pasacalle, cross the street] was what Spaniards called a fun tune that one would sing to themselves as they walk around. So instead of the galant court music we have the pasacalle in its vulgar street form, full of fun. And finally we have the night’s watch, guards closing down the streets for curfew, which became a popular movement from the work. The piece exploded in popularity throughout Spain, but didn’t spread outward until after Boccherini’s death. About the work, he said “The piece is absolutely useless, even ridiculous, outside Spain because the audience cannot hope to understand its significance nor the performers to play it as it should be played”. In a pre-globalized world, this is understandable. Imagine that, actually visiting the country of Spain which you’d only heard stories about growing up, and experiencing its culture, vibrancy, and energy first hand, knowing that you couldn’t describe it in a way that would do it justice to others. Boccherini was an insightful “orchestrator” with his music, here we can look at the effects he creates to give off the impression of sounds off in the distance versus sounds right in front of us, the “night’s watch” movement being a great example, where he paints them as coming and going through the soundscape, he writes, “One must imagine sitting next to the window on a summer’s night in a Madrid flat and that the band can only be heard in the far-off distance in some other part of the city, so at first it must be played quite softly. Slowly the music grows louder and louder until it is very loud, indicating the Night Watch are passing directly under the listener’s window. Then gradually the volume decreases and again becomes faint as the band moves off down the street into the distance.” Movements: 1. Le campane de l’Ave Maria 2. Il tamburo dei Soldati 3. Minuetto dei Ciechi 4. Il Rosario. Largo assai – Allegro – Largo come prima 5. Passa Calle (Allegro vivo) 6. Il tamburo 7. Ritirata (Maestoso)

mikrokosmos: Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today].…

[hushilda]

Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today]. Boccherini wrote this while he was working in Spain under the Royal Court, and in the piece he depicts the sounds and emotions of walking down the streets of Madrid at night. The opening is almost modern, the “bells” of a church ring to prompt the nightly Ave Maria, the plucking instruments echo…there is a lot of silence, and then we hear kettle drums off distance, soldiers marching, and after this evocative introduction we get a charming street minuet ‘of the blind beggars’, here the cellists are told to hold their instruments on their laps and strum them like guitars. After we fall into a gorgeous meditation, the Rosary, and we can picture cycling through the beads as we walk on. Next comes the “passacaglia”, though it isn’t in the dressed up courtly form, the passacaglia [from the Spanish pasacalle, cross the street] was what Spaniards called a fun tune that one would sing to themselves as they walk around. So instead of the galant court music we have the pasacalle in its vulgar street form, full of fun. And finally we have the night’s watch, guards closing down the streets for curfew, which became a popular movement from the work. The piece exploded in popularity throughout Spain, but didn’t spread outward until after Boccherini’s death. About the work, he said “The piece is absolutely useless, even ridiculous, outside Spain because the audience cannot hope to understand its significance nor the performers to play it as it should be played”. In a pre-globalized world, this is understandable. Imagine that, actually visiting the country of Spain which you’d only heard stories about growing up, and experiencing its culture, vibrancy, and energy first hand, knowing that you couldn’t describe it in a way that would do it justice to others. Boccherini was an insightful “orchestrator” with his music, here we can look at the effects he creates to give off the impression of sounds off in the distance versus sounds right in front of us, the “night’s watch” movement being a great example, where he paints them as coming and going through the soundscape, he writes, “One must imagine sitting next to the window on a summer’s night in a Madrid flat and that the band can only be heard in the far-off distance in some other part of the city, so at first it must be played quite softly. Slowly the music grows louder and louder until it is very loud, indicating the Night Watch are passing directly under the listener’s window. Then gradually the volume decreases and again becomes faint as the band moves off down the street into the distance.” Movements: 1. Le campane de l’Ave Maria 2. Il tamburo dei Soldati 3. Minuetto dei Ciechi 4. Il Rosario. Largo assai – Allegro – Largo come prima 5. Passa Calle (Allegro vivo) 6. Il tamburo 7. Ritirata (Maestoso)

mikrokosmos: Boccherini – String Quintet in C Major, op.30 no.6, “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid” (c.1780) Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. This work for string quintet is one of the earliest examples of “chamber poem” I know [there could be others but I’m just fawning over this piece that I discovered today].…