Hi All, So, I'd like to widen and deepen the music for the next Beowulf production. And back it up yet a few centuries...I still don't feel I have the flavor...
The earliest iconographic example of a triangular frame harp comes from the Utrecht psalter, 9th century. The usual date for for Beowulf is early 8th century....
Oh, yeah is it you who knows Conn? yes, he actually performed with us! We used a "lap harp" but a bit larger than you're talking about - 36 strings, on a...
I am not well-read on Beowulf dating issues, but a quick glance around the Internet shows that there seems to be some discussion over it. In particular, the...
Just stumbled onto this podcast of an interview with Benjamin Bagby. He speaks a bit about his ideas of early music reconstruction. It is below. Enjoy. Greg...
... Hi Jamie and Niki, I suppose what instruments you use also depends on whether you want to be in keeping with the instruments used towards the end of the...
While the Jorvik pipes are certainly associated with a Viking dig, I have seen some interesting information (Extant Musical Instruments) that indicates similar...
Anything without red plastic, yes! Ha! In fact I banned all modern-looking instruments from this last production (last time there were some classical era ...
I would stay away from bowed instruments if you really want authenticity. I've read the supposition that bowing of instruments was introduced to Europe...
I don't think you can create a period piece of theater from the classical time Beowulf was being told as epic story that includes orchestrated music as a core...
I tend to agree. Bagby's approach is about as authentic as you're going to get, and, lacking a time machine, even that involves a certain degree of guess...
Speaking of bowed instruments...in this video of Krauka, I'm trying to figure out exactly what this instrument in the middle is..and how he gets that pounding...
... Cant answer the rest, but I find if you take 400 grit wet and dry paper and rub the nylon strings a bit they work great. I use nylon for bowed lyres,...
Stu, help me out - is wet and dry paper perhaps also known as sand paper? Thanks for the suggestion. Comments about authenticity...yeah, that's exactly my...
... Normal sand paper will fall apart if you get it wet. Wet and dry is often used for car paint work, using it wet helps to wash away the dust and gives a...
Hi Niki, Krauka's bowed lyre is modified from some older Scandinavian instrument. They have their instrument made by a professional in the area. IF you...
Bowed instruments aren't anything I know much about, but you'll see a bowed rotta (rote, crwth, I'm not really sure if or how they're different) in the...
It appears to be the Baltic bowed lyre called a talharpa or Jouhikko. It's built a lot like the lyre we all know and love, but is played with a short bow and...
Jeff Opland's "Anglo-Saxon Oral Poetry" has a chapter on "The Pre-Christian Period: 100 - 600 AD", and that's what I'm about to extensively crib from. circa...
Hello Two very brief observations One, I am just reading the translation of Boethius's treatise on music, 6th century. In book 1 chapter 12 he explains the...
... It's that black sand paper that can be used either wet or dry. I use the 400 grit and rub along the length of the area of the strings that will be in...
Hmmm, maybe I've got a bad technique. It makes dry scratchy sound (which actually may be interesting as "Dragon" noise...) but no sustained tone of any kind....
That's gorgeous. But all I see two animals, one with antlers, and a person holding what looks like it could be a sack of potatoes. A harp? S specific kind...
The whole idea is to create just enough texture on the strings that the bow can grab. You have to put plenty of rosin on your bow for it to work, too. And...
... Hi Jamie, Niki, Chris, I'm kind of replying to several posts at once to save time. Yes, there are the panpipes from Jorvik, but there's also a panflute...
Hi Niki It is a standard scene showing King David's attributes. He is holding open the jaws of the lion. Above the lion stands the sheep. Above the sheep is...
I've found it helpful to ascertain the time period for these "psalter" illustrations of King David; they would seem to give us a window into the past. The...
The opposite point of view is of course that the monk doing the artwork would say "find me a psalter to copy" and so the figure was copied from psalter to...
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