28 Speech melodies and street cries (3) from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

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Lodewijk Muns

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28 Speech melodies and street cries (3)

24 minutes Posted Mar 24, 2026 at 4:20 pm.

Intro

Marcel Proust (1923): Time lost

Plainchant and recitative

Nightwatchman’s calls

G.A. Heinze and Schumann’s Frühlingssinfonie (1841)

, 12:19 Jean Péheu, Les cris parisiens: scène d’imitations 191? https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k127305d

Claude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande, Act 5 (Arkel). D. Ward, Covent Garden, P. Boulez. CBS (1970)

Orlando Gibbons, The Cries of London. Theatre of Voices, P. Hillier, Fretwork. Harmonia Mundi (2006)

, 14:29 Richard Dering, The City Cries. Theatre of Voices, P. Hillier, Fretwork. Harmonia Mundi (2006)

Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act 2 sc. 5, R. Pape, Bayerisches Staatorchester, W. Sawallisch EMI 7390182 (1993)

, 17:00, 21:58 Robert Schumann, Symfonie Nr. 1. The Hanover Band, R. Goodman. RCA 09026-61931-2 (1994)

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Show notes

The cris de Paris according to Marcel Proust, Joseph Mainzer and Georges Kastner; folklore and music theory ca. 1900, and the peddlers’ cries 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.

Music excerpts:

More on de street cries of Amsterdam in the Dutch version of this episode: https://lodewijkmuns.nl/podcast/spraakmelodieen-en-straatroepen-3/

References: see https://lodewijkmuns.nl/podcast/speech-melodies-and-street-cries-1/

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