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Hexachord Fantasia by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck on harpsichord

Monumenta Musica Neerlandica A (very) large-scale work, based on a simple theme: a Hexachord (Wiki: In music, a hexachord is a collection of six pitch classes[2] including six-note segments of a scale or tone row. The term was adopted in the Middle Ages and adapted in the twentieth-century in Milton Babbitt's serial theory). In this video pichures of the Oude Kerk Amsterdam, where Sweelinck was organist and paintings by Jan Lievens (24 October 1607 4 June 1674) was a Dutch painter, usually associated with Rembrandt, working in a similar style. More on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lievens Ernst Stolz harpsichord & video

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