Music of Time
EARLY MUSIC & BAROQUE OPERA
Research, Training & Performance
*Musique du Temps OÜ
is the production company for
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Andrew Lawrence-King:
Opera, Orchestral & Ensemble director
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Andrew Lawrence-King: Early Harps
New Baroque Operas & other compositions
by Andrew Lawrence-King
The Harp Consort
iL Corago
OPERA OMNIA
International Baroque Opera Studio
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*Musique du Temps OÜ is registered in Tallinn, Estonia.
number 16252420
The name
Music of Time
is inspired by
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Poussin's famous, beautiful & enigmatic painting
A dance to the music of time (c1635)
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The painting's original title in French is
Danse à la musique du temps
though it is best known today as
La Danse de la vie humaine
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Poussin's rich symbolism links perfectly
to Andrew Lawrence-King's ideas about
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Early Music & our modern-day world
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Musical tempo & dance-rhythms
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Historically Informed Performance
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Research into Music & Time
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The mysterious connection between heavenly music, the human spirit, and earthly music-making.
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On earth, a boy holds an hour-glass whilst Old Father Time plays an ancient lyre for the young dancers. In different interpretations, their circle-dance represents the Four Seasons, or Human Life.
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Meanwhile, Apollo (patron of music) drives his Time-Chariot of the Sun through the heavens. He is preceded by Aurora, goddess of the dawn, and accompanied by the Hours.
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The Statue looks back to the past, and forwards to the future.
Our logo features a musical note, a semibreve, on four different staves, spelling out in historical notation the pitches BACH.
Inside the semibreve is a clock-face: Music
of Time.
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