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.

[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.

[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'.