Marche des Dragons du Roy (Époque de Louis XIV)

 Marche des Dragons du Roy (Époque de Louis XIV) - YouTube

Marche militaire de l'ancien Régime - Marche du régiment de Champagne, les gris vêtus".

 Pour cet très ancien régiment dont l'origine remonte à 1558, il est attestée que lors de son entrée au Quesnoy en 1712 avec Villars, on jouait Auprès de ma blonde.

Reenact the regiment here Facebook

Marche des Mousquetaires du Roy - Jean-Baptiste Lully - French Military March

 

Trompette et timbalier, vers 1695

 

March For Two Pairs of Kettledrums - Philidor

 By Andre and Jacques Philidor, 1683

Performed by Adrian Ingles and Tracy Freeze "The March for Two Pairs of Kettledrums was first performed by the brothers Philidor in the presence of King Louis XIV at Versailles in 1683. Andre Philidor, also librarian of the Royal Music Library, transcribed the March in 1705. It was first published in The Journal of the Galpin Society IX, June 1956 in an article by Caldwell Titcomb. The dynamics suggested in this edition were not contained in the source but were added by the editor."

Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs - J.B. Lully

 From the movie, Tous Les Matins Du Monde (1991). Another movie about music from the Louis XIV period.

Scene from the movie Le Roi Danse (2000)

 The King Is Dancing - Wikipedia I liked this film. Did you?

Over The Hills And Far Away (Traditional)

 Art and video by Thomas Payton.

This tune was published in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (Originally in 1706). It appeared in The Recruiting Officer, a comedy by George Farquhar and in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). The lyrics refer to the War of the Spanish Succession (1701--1714), the Duke of Marlborough, and Queen Anne of England (1665 --1714).

Der siebenjährige Krieg und die Lieder des preußischen Grenadiers. Von Dr. Pröhle1

 Der siebenjährige Krieg und die Lieder des preußischen Grenadiers.pdf

Friedrich II "Der Grosse"* – Flötenkonzerte Und Sinfonien

1985. 

Although King Frederick only composed sporadically in his later years—almost his entire life’s work dates from before the Seven Years’ War in 1756, which brought Prussia and its ruler to the verge of ruin—the flute, and flute-playing, remained his loyal companions to his dying days. As late as 1770 the famous soprano Elisabeth Mara acclaimed his ‘strong, full tone and great proficiency’. And the well-travelled English music historian Charles Burney explicitly praised Frederick’s skills: ‘His playing was superior, in many respects, to anything I had heard from amateur or indeed professional flute-players.’ His own compositions, which he performed in small private concerts, were highly valued for their quality, although Frederick would have been well aware that in Quantz, Graun, C.P.E. Bach and other musicians in his court orchestra he had assembled a group of outstanding performers who would breathe new life into the musical life of Berlin and Potsdam in the middle of the 18th century and would have far-reaching effects as the fine arts moved towards a new cultural aesthetic of sensibility, ultimately ushering in the era of Sturm und Drang.

– Detlef Giese
English translation: Saul Lipetz

Recordings by Frederick II King of Prussia | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos

How did Soldiers in the Seven Years War originally sing "The British Grenadiers"?

 How Soldiers Originally Sung the song "The British Grenadiers."

Greensleeves - Music from the Court of King Henry VIII

 Various artists. There is a play 1536 that is causing a stir at the moment.

Seven Times Salt Prince Rupert's March

 The whole album is here

17th C Fifers companion, yorkshirecorpsofdrums.com/16th Century.html

MUSIC FROM THE ROYAL COURT OF KING CHRISTIAN IV

 MUSIC FROM THE ROYAL COURT OF KING CHRISTIAN IV · Royal Danish Orchestra Brass Ensemble · Magnus Thomsen · Alessandro Orologio · Truid Aagesen · William Brade · Mogens Pedersøn · John Dowland · Traditional

Happy May Day

 Painting of a hobby horse with Morris dancers beside the River Thames at Richmond, London; detail of Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace, c. 1620 (Fitzwilliam Museum, unknown artist)

King of Denmark's Galiard · Ensemble Mare Balticum

 Til Konungens Fornøjelse: Music at the Court of Christian IV. More songs of this album Top songs – Ensemble Mare Balticum - YouTube

Galliard - Wikipedia

Ack Libertas!

Ack, Libertas!: Songs from the 17th century with lyrics by Lars Wivallius Mikael Paulsson (lute), Martin Bagge (lute), Ute Goedecke (vocals) Ensemble Mare Balticum

 A record fil

Shakespeare's songs: 'It was a lover and his lass'

William Shakespeare - Wikipedia                               Thomas Morley - Wikipedia

 Thomas Morley’s song, “It was a lover and his lass:” music from Shakespeare's plays, presented in celebration of Shakespeare's 400th anniversary. 4K video from our January, 2016, concerts in San Francisco. Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano; William Skeen, viola da gamba; Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord, David Tayler, archlute.

Shakespeare referenced dozens of musical works in his plays, but only a few manuscripts and prints survive from his time; most of the musical settings that we hear nowadays were composed much later. Nonetheless, there are a few good sources for music for the plays, although the question of authorship for the music is problematic, as most of the sources are without attribution. Of these, by far and away the best example of a work for which we are certain of the author is Thomas Morley’s “It was a lover and his lass;” Shakespeare quotes the song in full, in "As you like it." Morley and Shakespeare lived in the same neighborhood in London--St. Helen’s parrish, Bishopsgate; it's likely that Shakespeare used Morley’s song in the play. This work is presented here for the first time in 4K, ultra high definition video.

De Saxe on music

 Does anyone know the quote from M de Saxe where he says something like 'without music troops are prone to melancholy'.  I can't find it.

Count Saxe's March (around 1760) - Fife & Drum

 JG Baroque says

Sometimes, great people of an era inspire musicians to honour them, with celebratory pieces, odes, songs and works being written and performed, sometimes in great numbers. Indeed, sometimes they even inspire people that would normally consider themselves their enemies. One such person was Maurice de Saxe, or in his native tongue, Moritz von Sachsen, a Prince of Saxony who served many years in the French army, perhaps most notably in the War of Austrian Succession. This march “Count Saxe’s March”, is from a British source, namely Thompson’s “Compleat Tutor for the Fife”, published around 1760. There is an interesting feature in the melody – at the end of each phrase of the second part, there is a cadence which resembles the ending phrases of the most common version of “the British Grenadiers”, which stems from the late 18th century.

This arrangement, with the slow 60 bpm pace of the time, captures somewhat the glory of the celebrated commander, where I have written harmonizing fife parts to the melody and drums to accompany it. The image shows Marshall de Saxe (in red), commanding the French army at the battle of Rocoux on October 11th, 1746. It was painted in 1750 by the French artist Pierre Nicolas l’Enfant.