minstrel: Bardic, Period, Etc. (fwd)

[Joshua Badgley]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Melvin, Stephen: wrote:
> > And frankly, original music is
> > perhaps the MOST period choice a bard can make.  

The choice is period, but is the music?  Do you know what that audience
would have liked because if you want to 'recreate' medieval music then it
needs to be for a medieval ear.  If, on the other hand, you want to
entertain a modern ear -- perhaps with folk and medieval tendancies --
that is not going to be a 'medieval' song but instead a contemporary song,
as contemporary as rap and rock n' roll for purposes of periodicity.

I have no qualms about introducing folk songs to people if that's what
they want to hear.  On the other hand I don't claim that it's period or
'like period' because that would be a lie.

And for those truly interested in creating period music I'm sure you can
find ways of filking period tunes as much as modern ones, and learning
what it is it sounds like, then make more period-sounding tunes from
there.  It's all what you want to put in and what you want to get out of
it, IMHO.

Si valetis, valeo.

Godric Logan





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