Riotous Christmas

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Concert-showcases-King-Richard-s-riotous-music/story-17768088-detail/story.html

Where can I find some sample of this riotous music??? Or any medieval music for that matter? Is there a site that has details of medieval fashion? Wikipedia has a page but the images are mostly Italian not English. Some of Richard's images by contemporary artists show him with an unfortunate haircut with bangs!!! Is that how they used to wear their hair? I am referring to Graham Turner's painting( I love his work!)
Here's the link for 15 th century fashion!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1400%c2%961500_in_fashion
Ishita

This post sound so disjointed!!! It happens a lot when I am posting from my phone!

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On Jan 5, 2013, at 8:02 PM, "bandyoi" <bandyoi@...> wrote:

> http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Concert-showcases-King-Richard-s-riotous-music/story-17768088-detail/story.html
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> Where can I find some sample of this riotous music??? Or any medieval music for that matter? Is there a site that has details of medieval fashion? Wikipedia has a page but the images are mostly Italian not English. Some of Richard's images by contemporary artists show him with an unfortunate haircut with bangs!!! Is that how they used to wear their hair? I am referring to Graham Turner's painting( I love his work!)
> Here's the link for 15 th century fashion!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1400%e2%80%931500_in_fashion
> Ishita
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Here's some fun stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrqz7VBYKE (a little late but I love it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKJgwLPjmlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7-USz4F0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2x3AYSmZjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0JWxFbzYco (the fun part starts at about
.45)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwfWxGtL2F4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgazjfIM_lA

Hope you like them!

Maria
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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Ishita Bandyo <bandyoi@...> wrote:

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> On Jan 5, 2013, at 8:02 PM, "bandyoi" bandyoi@...> wrote:
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> > Where can I find some sample of this riotous music??? Or any medieval
> music for that matter? Is there a site that has details of medieval
> fashion? Wikipedia has a page but the images are mostly Italian not
> English. Some of Richard's images by contemporary artists show him with an
> unfortunate haircut with bangs!!! Is that how they used to wear their hair?
> I am referring to Graham Turner's painting( I love his work!)
> > Here's the link for 15 th century fashion!
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You will find medieval music for FREE on this site

http://www.last.fm/tag/medieval

Also if you download the app Pandora

http://www.pandora.com/mobile/on_the_ipad_wap_content.vm

Then you have your own Internet radio that you can develop your own radio station to listen to, while you read the R3 Forum
George
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On Jan 5, 2013, at 8:02 PM, "bandyoi" <bandyoi@...> wrote:

> http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Concert-showcases-King-Richard-s-riotous-music/story-17768088-detail/story.html
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> Where can I find some sample of this riotous music??? Or any medieval music for that matter? Is there a site that has details of medieval fashion? Wikipedia has a page but the images are mostly Italian not English. Some of Richard's images by contemporary artists show him with an unfortunate haircut with bangs!!! Is that how they used to wear their hair? I am referring to Graham Turner's painting( I love his work!)
> Here's the link for 15 th century fashion!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1400%e2%80%931500_in_fashion
> Ishita
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Hi, Ishita.

I'm writing from memory here, and so there are likely mistakes.

The best living, currently performing source I know for medieval profane (riotous) music is a German group called Corvus Corax. The performers may look like goth/heavy metal fans, but they're serious musicians playing period instruments that they build themselves. (just search on YouTube for Corvus Corax.) They do both instrumental pieces and songs.

The Church didn't approve of profane (as opposed to sacred) music; they thought the profane used a "diabolical" scale and led the flock astray. Since most of the troubadours didn't write down their pieces, we're lucky to have anything at all.

The founder of Corvus Corax scours Continental libraries for medieval music manuscripts, takes the melody line (which is all that normally exists), and then arranges it to how it might have sounded. I don't think he's made his way over to Britain, so perhaps someone else will have done this? If so, please let me know, I love this sort of thing.

As for another source, the British group Medieval Babes uses some period melodies, but I think for the most part they set medieval poetry/lyrics to original music? Which may be more to your liking, Ishita, as it's mostly in English (but there's some in Latin) if I recall correctly. But the arrangements are mostly modern.

I'm not sure Richard would have used truly profane music -- as in, the music of the unwashed masses, the traveling minstrels who performed in town squares. It'll be interesting to see what the concert includes. I hope someone will attend and post the program here?

Beyond that is the eventually boring madrigals/courtly music which, frankly, isn't all that much fun. You sing one of these pieces, you've sung them all. But madrigals and courtly is likely what he had in his court...but surely his Fool must have introduced some of the more profane stuff....

Since most of us can't go to the concert, perhaps Mannheim Steamroller's Renaissance Christmas (set in a Great Hall and trying hard to be period) might serve as a sort of consolation prize? It features 15th- and 16-th-century music. Links below.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/BwQx5hq5WrE
Part 2: http://youtu.be/OBpAbRiBIXI (nice horse....)
Part 3: http://youtu.be/HBi3aO3SGnU (includes a recipe for mulled wine or wassail)

Chip Davis (who founded Mannheim Steamroller) used renaissance and classical melodies in all of his work, but the arrangements are entirely unique to him.


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> Where can I find some sample of this riotous music??? Or any medieval music for that matter? Is there a site that has details of medieval fashion? Wikipedia has a page but the images are mostly Italian not English.