Story Behind The Song
This is a piece of music with which I have a long history: I learned to play the C major prelude from Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier" while studying classical guitar as a boy, and have always loved the piece. In a college voice class I prepared and performed (quite badly) the Ave Maria that Charles Gounod composed over the setting of that Bach prelude. And back in 1982 when I had my first cassette portastudio, I did a version of the piece with crudely layered synthesizers.
In the late '90s I came across a version of the Bach prelude by the League of Crafty Guitarists, in which they used 5 guitars to layer the recurring arpeggios (a technique known as "circulation.") I set out to record such a setting myself, with the idea of producing a stark and quiet version of the Ave Maria, but somewhere along the way it picked up a thumping house beat beneath it. From there things took a profoundly different direction than I had originally intended, but I find this result to be quite fun.
The Ave Maria melody is a sampler playing a female "Ahhh" sound, channeled through a vocorder to give the words shape.
Song Description
The classic "Ave Maria," with a melody by Charles Gounod added over the C major prelude from Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier," with a thumping house beat underneath.
| Song Length |
2:56 |
Genre |
Electronic - House, Classical - General |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Other |
| Mood |
Exultant |
Language |
Latin |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus
Sancta Maria
Sancta Maria, Maria
Ora pro nobis
nobis pecatoribus
Nunc et in hora
Hora mortis nostrae
Amen
Amen