Hi, Happy New Year everyone! I found a few videos on Youtube I hadn't seen before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRrZIwQxyIo ...
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Stu
darsnordham
Jan 8, 2012 7:09 pm
... Not seen the last one from time team, but the first one there would be mine. My Daughter has decided I have to have videos of my instruments on youtube so...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Jan 9, 2012 2:06 pm
... Hi Stu, Very nice! I like the feather, seems to work very well. Cheers, Tim...
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Stu
darsnordham
Jan 9, 2012 5:48 pm
... Thanks. In period they would have been shaved, you can see such a thing in a number of illuminations. I though, rather like the showiness of it. :) That...
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o2btuvan
Mar 7, 2012 2:17 am
I thought perhaps there might be some people in this group who would be interested in the following video I posted to YouTube of an electroacoustic version of...
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seanecrews
Mar 7, 2012 2:57 am
Great sound! As long as it sin't "traditional" anyway, have you tried any effects while playing it, like delay or chorus?...
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nnaeve
Mar 7, 2012 4:46 am
I loved listening to/seeing this! For me it captured a flavor, a mood, an ambiance of an era which I've been trying to achieve on my lyres, I think with less...
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michaeljking2007
michaeljking...
Mar 7, 2012 10:12 am
Brilliant performance, just what is needed, we could do with more of this type of interpretation, I always feel out on a limb if I sing along in public so I...
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o2btuvan
Mar 7, 2012 12:54 pm
... ******************* Hi Michael, The so-called "lyre of Paule", a Celtic instrument that dates from the 2nd century BCE (seven centuries before Sutton Hoo)...
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sca_bard@...
sca_bard
Mar 7, 2012 10:48 pm
A wonderful FREE resource! In 1981, Christopher Page (who went on to found the early music ensemble Gothic Voices) wrote his dissertation on "Anglo-Saxon...
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thephlapbadhu
Mar 8, 2012 12:25 am
Nice find there! interested in the tuning he identifies as being CDEFGA rather than GABCDE. The references to the pillar harp i assume to be a standard harp...
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sca_bard@...
sca_bard
Mar 8, 2012 12:34 am
No, some of the earliest harps are angle harps, like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_harp.jpg No forepillar. I've seen some of the...
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Mar 8, 2012 7:38 am
... Hi, That was fantastic! Definitely one of the most professional lyre performances I've seen! I think if someone wants to modernise one aspect of the...
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o2btuvan
Mar 8, 2012 1:42 pm
... ************************ I agree Tim. If you want an uninitiated modern listener to react to what you are doing the way a native audience might have...
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o2btuvan
Mar 8, 2012 2:35 pm
... ****************** WOW! That is some thesis! Thanks for the reference. I downloaded the pdf, all 411 pages of it, and intend to read it carefully. That may...
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Paul Butler
pcbutler1701
Mar 8, 2012 6:51 pm
I agree that it was a really well done performance, and gives the sense if not the literalness of scop. Also really like the melody and the modal chords....
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johnedallas@...
johnedwardda...
Mar 8, 2012 7:05 pm
I haven't looked at the dissertation yet, but this comment seems somewhat strange. To me as a diatonic player - Anglo concertina and autoharp - "CDEFGA" and...
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sca_bard@...
sca_bard
Mar 8, 2012 9:25 pm
" It is safe to assume that the Anglo-Saxon singers, like us, were divided into basses and tenors. So, having learned to manipulate 6 strings tuned to a...
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o2btuvan
Mar 8, 2012 10:18 pm
... *********************** In my opinion that is exactly what the author is doing. He is using what we call the "tonic sol-fa" in which "do" is movable. Don't...
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LM
lavransrm
Mar 8, 2012 10:38 pm
I imagine that. first of all, the means of presentation in those days may have been a mix of both spoken and sung vocalizing. If you've seen Ben Bagby's...
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sca_bard@...
sca_bard
Mar 9, 2012 1:12 am
Here's some quotes: "The example extracted from the antiphons leaves us in no doubt that Hucbald's six stringed cithara was tuned tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone...
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o2btuvan
Mar 9, 2012 1:16 am
... ********************* I adapted a translation I picked up from Anglo-Saxons.net: http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=wdr My version was...
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Kazimierz Verkmastare
cnogy
Mar 9, 2012 3:48 pm
This is just my 2 cents worth, from the point of view of a self styled 'amateur experimental historical musical anthropologist' and a builder and limited...
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o2btuvan
Mar 10, 2012 1:25 am
As I said in my first post to this group, "I guess I don't need to point out that I am not an authenticist. I am an entertainer". You were entertained. I agree...
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o2btuvan
Mar 10, 2012 12:53 pm
In his thesis on the Saxon lyre, musicologist Christopher Page has an interesting section on "scordatura" which is a fancy word for any unorthodox tuning of a...
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hurtsteven31
Mar 10, 2012 6:40 pm
Hi all, I'm in the middle of writing an undergraduate dissertation on Anglo Saxon and Germanic Lyres and am interested in finding further information on the...
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o2btuvan
Mar 11, 2012 12:23 am
... ********************* See message # 2675 posted by "sca bard" and, if you haven't done so already, download Christopher Page's dissertation....
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Tim
vikingtimbo
Mar 11, 2012 12:54 pm
... Hi, Yes it's a topic we've discussed here before, and as you wrote, the lyre traditions that have survived until the present usually don't tune in the...
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o2btuvan
Mar 11, 2012 9:36 pm
... ********************* Great video. It's interesting that the strings of the entongoli, like some other instruments of the same family, are not centered but...
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Michaela
aslaugspoetry
Mar 11, 2012 10:01 pm
Hello, I´m new here. My name is Michaela. I´m interested in learning about lyres and lyre performance, especially to understand what kind of songs/tunes and...
