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...
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...
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...
... ******************* Hi Michael, The so-called "lyre of Paule", a Celtic instrument that dates from the 2nd century BCE (seven centuries before Sutton Hoo)...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
... ************************ I agree Tim. If you want an uninitiated modern listener to react to what you are doing the way a native audience might have...
... ****************** 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...
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....
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...
" 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...
... *********************** 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...
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...
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...
... ********************* 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
... ********************* Great video. It's interesting that the strings of the entongoli, like some other instruments of the same family, are not centered but...
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...
... Hi, ... Yes, I suppose that's one of the advantages of having the strings attached to the yoke in that way, without pegs in holes whose positions are...
... ***************** I didn't think of that. You're right. The positioning of the strings themselves could be changed to suit the player. There are some...
Graeme Lawson's page, with a list of his publications: http://www.orfeo.co.uk/ Unfortunately, *his* dissertation ("Stringed musical instruments: artefacts in...
Hi Jamie, as I mentioned on this list in November, I wrote to Cambridge Uni Library to enquire and all they sent in reply was an invoice for 150 pounds for a...
