Contrapunto Bestiale alla Mente
Aka "The Animal Noise Song", by Adriano Banchieri. The first and last sections are "falala"s, and in the middle each line imitates a different animal.
There are numerous recordings online. Some performances are faithful to the music as written, some ham it up a great deal.
Computer-generated sound files to help learn parts:
- All parts [3]
- Bass [4]
- Tenor [5] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Alto [6] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Soprano 2 [7] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Soprano 1 [8] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Tenor and Soprano 1 together [9] (closely related, so I thought this might be useful)
The bass line, but an octave higher [10] than normal, and an octave lower [11] than normal.
The same, but at half speed:
- All parts, slow [12]
- Bass, slow [13]
- Tenor, slow [14] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Alto, slow [15] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Soprano 2, slow [16] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
- Soprano 1, slow [17] (plus bass in animal-noise section)
See note below [18] about S1 and S2 swapping parts on the final line.
We're using the sheet-music in the Big Lochac Snogbook [19] (page 22).
Music Categories:
- Singing [20]