The cris de Paris according to Marcel Proust, Joseph Mainzer and Georges Kastner; folklore and music theory ca. 1900, and the peddlers’ calls of Amsterdam.
To conclude, the call of the night watchman in London, Amsterdam, and Leipzig, with a forgotten night watchman’s call in Schumann’s Symphony No. 1.
00:00 Intro
00:35 Marcel Proust (1923): Time lost
02:04 Plainchant and recitative
12:23 Nightwatchman’s calls
16:20 G.A. Heinze and Schumann’s Frühlingssinfonie (1841)
Marchande de chiffons (second-hand clothes dealer). Bertall, La comédie de notre temps (1875)
Music excerpts:
07:26, 12:19 Jean Péheu, Les cris parisiens: scène d’imitations 191? https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k127305d
08:25 Claude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande, Act 5 (Arkel). D. Ward, Covent Garden, P. Boulez. CBS (1970)
12:41 Orlando Gibbons, The Cries of London. Theatre of Voices, P. Hillier, Fretwork. Harmonia Mundi (2006)
13:36, 14:29 Richard Dering, The City Cries. Theatre of Voices, P. Hillier, Fretwork. Harmonia Mundi (2006)
15:37 Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act 2 sc. 5, R. Pape, Bayerisches Staatorchester, W. Sawallisch EMI 7390182 (1993)
16:25, 17:00, 21:58 Robert Schumann, Symfonie Nr. 1. The Hanover Band, R. Goodman. RCA 09026-61931-2 (1994)
More on de street cries of Amsterdam in the Dutch version of this episode.
References: see episode 28.
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