Perhaps an odd thing...

[kellan_the_tabby]

I'm rapidly discovering that given the choice between SCA-written 'medievaloid' music, and real period music, I'll pick the latter every time.

In fact, given a choice between a lot of the sort of 'folk/traditional' music that people sing at events, and real period music, I'll pick the latter every time.

I'm currently listening to parts of a CD from Harper's Retreat a bunch of years ago. Parts, because I keep skipping over songs. I get maybe halfway through, and think, you know, I'm not _enojoying_ this one...and it's always the modern stuff. I'm really enjoying listening to the period stuff. The sound is just _so_ different.

I'll probably put more Machaut back in after this. Maybe before I had period music to listen to I wouldn't have known enough to know what's _not_...but now that I do know, said knowledge won't just conveniently go away.

Guess I need more period stuff.

Comments

[handymonkey]

Remind me at some point when I'm not obsessing about getting a new car to burn you some stuff that's period, not perioid.

[kellan_the_tabby]

That'd be brilliant, hun.

I've got recent Consumer Reportses, if those would be of use.

[handymonkey]

I don't know that I'll need them, but thank you. I'm thinking of trying to find a manual, diesel VW Jetta. Gets about 40 mpg.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Which is just brilliant, these days...

Good luck.

[cellio]

Period music good. :-)

That said, most people who write music in the SCA aren't trying to write period music, or aren't trying very hard. They're often writing music that sounds like 19th-century ballads, which is a nice repertoire but not the same one. There is some SCA-written stuff that sounds more like the real thing, though most of what I'm familiar with is ensemble stuff, not solo.

[kellan_the_tabby]

It's the 19th century stuff that annoys me, I guess. The theory that 'old enough for my grandparents'='period-like or close enough'.

I'd love to hear some of the stuff that people are writing in a period style. Solo or ensemble or whatever.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Heh, for more of this discussion see recent posts by new_man and cristovau, both of whom attended this year's Harpers'.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Yeah, sounds about like what I'm feeling.

I'm not going to go on some great crusade to get people in the SCA to sing or play more period stuff...that's not my gig, and I have enough other things to do. But I don't show up to many bardic circles these days, and I don't see that changing much either.