minstrel: Is anyone posting?

[Jacqueline Simmons]

>  From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl at pbm.com>, on 2/17/98 8:05 PM:
>  [this was sent to just the list owner by accident... so I thought I'd
>  reply in public.]

D'oh!  !Muchas gracias!

>  > Its possible you are the first poster in a while, so tell me:  What is 
>  your
>  > field of interest?
>  > 
>  > I'm looking for late period Engilsh campfire entertainment, and Arabic and
>  > Persian stuff from at least near the SCA target.  (Don't want much, do I?  
>  The
>  > moon, a few stars. . . .)
>  > 
>  > I'm in Ansteorra, where at least some of us do actual medieval bardic 
>  works
>  > (fancy!).
>  
>  Late period English is fairly easy: Ravenscroft, Ravenscroft,
>  Ravenscroft. Ballads. See http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/
>  Amusingly enough, someone sang me a modern Welsh "trad" version
>  of "The Marriage of the Frog and Mouse" at Estrella. That's
>  from Ravenscroft.

Love that site!!!!!!!!!  Cute story, too!

>  
>  The Persian/Arabic stuff is harder. The Cantigas de Santa Maria
>  include quite a few that sound Arabic. And there are articles like:
>  
>  James Monroe, _Ten Hispano-Arabic melodies in the oral tradition_
>  
>  for attempts to figure out "traditional" melodies which might date
>  back to our period. This particular article is about modern
>  traditional melodies setting medieval Andalusian poetry. It then goes
>  on to attempt to figure out how much the melodies might have changed
>  over time.
>  
>  -- gb


Oh, thanks ever so!  [slobber, slobber--ladylike, of course!]  

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