Ok, back in the office again after a great weekend in the #middleAges, with #MMitD, #MedievalMusicInTheDales

https://www.medievalmusicinthedales.co.uk/

Didn't post anything while there (didn't use the phone/social media at all). Seemed wrong to stay connected that way, when the general vibe was more that one has to wait for the minstrels and troubadours to come by with the news of the world.

#EarlyMusic

With its haunting melody, and the romantic myth that it was written by #HenryVIII as a love song for #AnneBoleyn, Greensleeves has remained popular over the centuries and today, is probably the best known of all #Tudor #songs.

However there is no proven connection to Henry VIII, and the earliest mention of the broadside ballad called #Greensleeves was not until September 1580, (some 33 years after his death). It was an immediate hit, and a number of imitations and parodies were produced in the following months and years.

Our recording uses the text from 'A Handful of Pleasant Delights', 1584 - the earliest surviving source. There are many verses, some of which contain lovely descriptions of #Elizabethan clothing and other aspects of #MaterialCulture

Richard de Winter: baritone
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymodern #costume #fashionhistory #histodon #histodons #tudors @earlymusic
@earlymodern
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Another energetic take on the classic 'Vuestros ojos' by Ensemble Sol.
I liked the 'pandereta'-solo towards the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy7kqAvH4UU

@classicalmusic #earlymusic #energy

#WeekendListening: Professor Lisa Marie Johnson and Dr. Anna K. Grau on their edited collection *Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in Medieval Europe*!

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/anna-kathryn-grau-and-lisa-colton-female-voice-song/id425448670?i=1000626430638

#EarlyMusic #Medieval #Histodons
@womenknowhistory
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Huge #DigitalHumanities, #EarlyMusic, #BookHistory and #CulturalHeritage news! “The Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission” project, led by Dr. Jennifer Bain, just received a $2.5-million Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant!

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/08/29/dal-researcher-leads-unparalleled-global-project-to-empower-scho.html

#MusicalBookHistory #Histodons
@womenknowhistory
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Huge #DigitalHumanities, #EarlyMusic, #BookHistory and #CulturalHeritage news! “The Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission” project, led by Dr. Jennifer Bain, just received a $2.5-million Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant!

I am so excited to be one of the Co-Investigators of this grant as Co-Lead of the Manuscripts and Aretefacts Research Axis! 🤩

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/08/29/dal-researcher-leads-unparalleled-global-project-to-empower-scho.html

#MusicalBookHistory #Histodons
@womenknowhistory
@histodons
@bookhistodons

Nei quattro giorni scorsi, dopo lunghe giornate di studio e difficoltà da superare, si proponeva pubblicamente il lavoro svolto, ed erano sempre davvero bei momenti di condivisione.

#madrigale #earlymusic

Something easy on the ear for #Sunday. I was a serious classical guitarist in the 80s but eventually left that world. I do revisit it on occasion, though my chops aren’t what they were.

Here’s a lovely early #17thcentury century #lute duet by #WilliamLawes I recorded on #guitar a few months ago.

youtu.be/b0XBQpGxLXw

#earlymusic

William Lawes: Think not I could absent myself this night

A dialogue between Eunomia (goddess of law) and Irene (goddess of peace) from James Shirley's court masque, The Triumph of Peace, 1634

Emily Atkinson: Eunomia (soprano)
Richard de Winter: Irene (tenor)
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
Keith McGowan: flute
Richard Mackenzie: lute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wTjEWnaO8&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble
#earlymodern #earlymoderndrama
#17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #history #histodon #histodons #youtube #youtubechannel #youtubemusic #opera #masque #charlesi #historical @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodon
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#lute #soprano #tenor #violin #flute #viol #violadagamba #renaissance #baroque

Some #MusicalBookHistory for a Friday! From top left:

- A 17th C gradual in 4mo
- Another 17th C gradual, but in 1mo
- An early modern songbook in 32mo

Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library 815850:1; 826128:2; C23965.

#BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyMusic #CulturalHeritage #Histodons #BookHistodons

@histodons @bookhistodons

My new, Very Artisanal rosin.

#earlymusic

“The Arithmetic of Listening” by Kyle Gann is fantastic. I’ve read several books on tuning before over the years but most were either dated, turgid, or too surface level. This text however achieves lucidity without compromising on substance.

The only other major work on temperament I’ve enjoyed was Claudio Veroli’s “Unequal Temperaments”, and I still recommend it for those into early music. #books #earlymusic #musictheory

Nice! Took the time to replace my scans of the Pernner Codex (RegB C120) with the new online ones 🙂

The old, black and white scan taken from a microfilm at the former Letterenbibliotheek (now @UULibrary ) was kind of sufficient..., but the new images are a huge improvement 😉 (online at https://bistum-regensburg.de/kunst-kultur/dioezesanbibliothek/digitale-sammlungen)

#earlymusic #tedeumlaudamus #phd #digitalmusicology

Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought #onthisday in 1485.
A good example of Tudor propaganda.

A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
and
The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #baritone
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison KInder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStjRK_gY-M&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymodern #richardiii #bosworth #histodon #histodons #tudor #tudors #warsoftheroses #otd #onthisdayinhistory #henryvii @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodons @histodon
#ballads #balladmiscellany #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #history

Been reminded about the #introduction thing ...
Got my first hive (at association apiary) a few weeks ago after doing a #beekeeping course & helping out with education hives. All going well so far.
Favourite #sumo wrestler - #Kotoeko 💜, with #Tobizaru 🐒 a close second.
Favourite composer - #HenriëtteBosmans; also love #DoraPejačević, #ElizabethMaconchy, #Dvořák, about any #EarlyMusic or #ArmenianMusic.
Semi-successful at #ContainerGardening, #cooking , #LanguageLearning, #poetry.
#TransAlly.

Just returned from holidays, and looking forward to speak at the STIMU symposium 'The Revival of Heritage' in memory of Richard Taruskin at the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht, next week, with a paper entitled: 'Defining Ukraine Musically'. 🇺🇦

#musicology #ukrainianmusic #russianmusic #fom23 #earlymusic

For more details, see: https://oudemuziek.nl/agenda/alle-concerten-20232024/fom23-stimu-symposium-passe-partout/28-29-aug-passe-partout-stimu-symposium/

Yesterday was the birthday of Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, a surprisingly important figure in the history of #EarlyModern worship and #BookHistory. So I wrote a blogpost in his honour!

https://mariannecegillion.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/happy-belated-birthday-to-a-musically-influential-cardinal/

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@bookhistodons

#Histodons #MusicalBookHistory #Printing #EarlyMusic #CounterReformation #CouncilOfTrent #Liturgy

My head is still full of the wonderful resonances of yesterday’s unique performance of Spem in alium! I had the privilege of listening to takes 17-21 and 28-34 of Thomas Talllis 40-part motet sung and recorded live over 40 multitracked takes by just two (incredible!) singers. #koeln #EarlyMusic

♬〜 Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg-Variationen BWV 988: Variatio 30 Quodlibet. a 1 Clav. 💿Bach: Goldberg Variations
#Classical #Bach #Baroque #EarlyMusic #WesternClassicalMusic #NowPlaying

♬〜 Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg-Variationen BWV 988: Variatio 16 Ouverture. a 1 Clav. 💿Bach: Goldberg Variations
#Classical #Bach #Baroque #EarlyMusic #WesternClassicalMusic #NowPlaying