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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 14:22:57 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: re: minstrel: Re: minstrel- Bardic, Perio
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>From: "CAB" <cab@spaustin.zilker.net>, on 10/1/98 12:51 AM:
                      RE>>minstrel: Bardic, Period, Etc.           10/1/98

>Okay, I have been performing as a bard for a couple of years, and I have
>managed to scrounge up a couple of period pieces.  But I feel like it has 
been
>luck that I have found the few period pieces that I have found. 

>You both "hint" that it is not hard to find/learn period pieces.  I don't 
know
>any bards who have period music to teach me.

>Where do I look for cool, nifty period music???? 

>All of you who are talking about trying to only perform period music, do 
any
>of you have tapes of period pieces? Would any of you be willing to make 
tapes
>of yourself performing period songs?

>Crystal
>(Ansteorra)

Hi, Crystal.  What are you looking for?  Solo songs?  Solo instrumental 
stuff?  Group vocal?  Group instrumental?  Vocal with accompaniment?

Can you read music or can you learn only from recordings or live 
performers?

If you can read music and have web access, I'd highly recommend looking at 
the facsimile pages available through Gregory's pages:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/music_and_dance.html
He has a link to the Early Music FAQ pages, where you will find a large 
compendium of available recordings.  If you want to go there directly, it's
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/

Whether or not you have Internet access, have you tried:
your public library?
your local academic library?
your local used bookstore near a college or university?

On the matter of the last one, look for anthologies used in music history 
classes.  Even old ones may be useful.  Some of the ones to look for 
include:
The Norton Anthology of Medieval Music
The Historical Anthology of Music by Women
The Harvard Anthology of Music
The Historical Anthology of Music

also look for Oxford University Press titles.  They have a homepage at:
http://www.oup.co.uk/
with a music section at
http://www1.oup.co.uk/music/

Try a search on "Oxford Book of" to get an impressive array of everything 
from French Chansons to Tudor Anthems.

Don't overlook everyday sources like hymnals and books of carols.
Go browse in the classical section of your local record store.  Look for 
composers like Binchois, Perotin, Hildegard, Morley, di Lasso . . .
performers such as Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Hillard Ensemble, Deller Consort 
. . .
genres such as English madrigals, motets, chant . . .
specific sources such as music from the Llibre Vermell, Cantigas de Santa 
Maria, lute music from the Skene manuscript . . .

Now look in the areas of the store/library/web close to where you found any 
of the above.

What are looking for?  

Vivien


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