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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7836185, member: 10461&quot;]Since I can’t keep up with the lovely coins here (I posted most of mine from this period earlier), here’s another truly sublime piece of Baroque music to keep the mood going.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]NafyrVy-keI[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine you’re in a palace or cathedral or a church like the one shown, in the 18th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>You live in a world without recorded music, amplifiers, synthesizers, CD players, or YouTube.&nbsp; Sure, you’d have heard snippets of music in the outside world: people singing in taverns or market stalls.&nbsp; Maybe a shepherd piping a simple tune on his wooden flute.</p><p><br /></p><p>But imagine you enter the church and you hear THAT, sounding much as it does in the video.&nbsp; After all, they had trumpets and organs then, obviously.&nbsp; No wonder you’d be awestruck, and maybe have a religious experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention that only <i>two people</i> are weaving that entire rich tapestry of sound.&nbsp; Not an orchestra.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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