To close the year up my favorite project I have worked on this year:  a wood burning  on my new hurdy gurdy, hopefully I will have lots of time in the new year practice playing it 

some shaky ass photos of a medieval citole i MADE last month. this rocks

Oh my god, new fav cover of a Hildegard Von Bingen song just dropped

(Listen to the whole thing from start to finish - it builds)

Hey medieval musicologists! Was B-flat minor one of the allowed keys Back In The Day? Trying to answer a question for a coworker

edit: please feel free to reblog!

Hello!

I noticed that “The Mob Pursues the Abbot” sounded similar to “Saltarello III” Was that the inspiration for the track? Or was it just Saltarello music in general? It’s one of my favorite pieces of the era so I was excited to notice the similarities.

That is the music, arranged by Alkemie.

Bladee and Medieval music

So yeah drainers I've made the weirdest link in my head. I DON'T KNOW if it's intentional from B-man but a very cool person told me about old ahh music and I've made connections.

So in medieval music and especially in gregorian chants, melodies used to always come back on the root (speaking about intervals). For example if the song was in the key of C, each sentence used to end up on the C note, which creates a very pleasant sentiment of predictability but in a good way. It made sens because there were a lot of limitations for what was authorized and acceptable in music.

Back to Bladee, when you listen to his early stuff, you can hear the exact same thing. On his album Eversince especially (2016) ,each sentence always ends on the root, it has the same predictability than gregorian chants and it creates a similar feeling : melodies don't go very far from home and it's pretty nice.

But bladee is a cloud rap artist with a lot of autotune, a weird voice and wintery, glassy, glittering sinths on the production. It makes his music sound completely out of time, very modern with the cloud rap side of things but at the same time outdated, ancient. And these melodies also convey a feeling of isolation, coldness, sadness as if Bladee didn't have the energy to sing otherwise. So we have similar ways of constructing melodies with the voice but 600 years apart, and the feelings the same thing give are completely different each time.

It's quite impossible to know if he did it intentionnally, or if this post even makes sense but my friend agreed with me and she's based so I'm right.

"The Horse Dance" being performed by the medieval musical reenactment group "Datura" at Archeon, an open air museum in the Netherlands

from Mourad Veeneman

Wanted to post a reel to insta, and while trying to decide on an audio, I remembered "wait, I own an instrument" So 15th century dance of death on hurdy gurdy it is! Pre-orders for this tapestry design close on the 11th of November!! Pre-order form can be found here: https://forms.gle/ZKuDZF62Rx2ibwD18

Music of the Gothic Era

· https://spoti.fi/3Zn7U8c

The Early Music Consort of London & David Munrow

* Lp info

David Munrow. English early music pioneer: · http://davidmunrow.org

Medieval peasant woman after that bitch Kathy steals her turnips and accuses her of witchcraft: this is most importune. bard, play poison poison by Lady Renee of House Rapp

fuck being your lover. i want to be your traveling bard

It's been a while since I posted a bit of music.

This is nice.