
If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century Watch Jonas Wolf and three friends sing a choral arrangement of the Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive in the style of a madrigal . Just in case (like the me of 1 minute ago) you don’t know what that is (although you will recognize it from just a few seconds of listening to the video), voila: A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th-16th centuries) and early Baroque (1580-1650) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number of voices varies from two to eight, but the form usually features three to six voices, whilst the metre of the madrigal varies between two or three tercets, followed by one or two couplets. Wolf has a few more videos of “pop songs in renaissance and baroque style” on his YouTube channel . (Note: these are not AI in case you were wondering/worried.)
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