Week 37 - Medieval music listening and Medieval Instruments: The Organetto
1. Stuff done this week: - Further practicing the Irish reel "The Star of Munster". My sight reading is still slow and I feel tempted to study by ear again. - Notes on the Portative organ. - Finished writing a song called "Lay me down" for my band Crimson Inc.. - Thinking about a music timeline. I like this example . - Performed with Crimson Inc. at the Backroads Roots Festival in Utrecht last sunday. Here some footage: 2. Listening done this week: 2.1 Chant in honour of anglo saxon saints It is a series of religious chants praising Saints like Gregory the Great; Augustine of Canterbury; Kyneburga; Cuthbert of Lindisfarne; Edmund, King of East Anglia; Dunstan of Glastonbury; Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester;Wulfstan of Worchester. The chants are sung unaccompanied by any musical instrument; it is the pure sound of consonant voices. One sometimes hears a male tenor or baritone voice chanting a single line, followed by a chorus of voices singi...