Sandra Dodd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8075223.stm

This was on the Medieval Trivia yahoo list. It's a link to a BBC
article:

New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten
musical instrument called the Lituus.
The 2.7m (8.5ft) long trumpet-like instrument fell out of use some 300
years ago.
Bach's motet (a choral musical composition) "O Jesu Christ, meins
lebens licht" was one of the last pieces of music written for the
Lituus.
Now, for the first time, this 18th Century composition has been played
as it might have been heard.


There are photos.
There's a great intersection of music, history and technology!

Sandra

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Robin Bentley

Here's the link, so you can hear the lituus (you can hear it best
after the singing at the beginning):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8075321.stm

Robin B.

On Jun 6, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8075223.stm
>
> This was on the Medieval Trivia yahoo list. It's a link to a BBC
> article:
>
> New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten
> musical instrument called the Lituus.

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-=- There's a great intersection of music, history and technology! -=-

What a great link!.

It's just wonderful when something utterly of the present can help us
understand something much older. It put me in mind of the composer Percy
Grainger going out in the very early 20th century with his new-fangled
phonograph to record the voices of old singers whose songs and styles were falling
out of fashion. Joseph Taylor was one of these singers: I've put a link to
some mp3 previews (sorry, it's via a commercial site, but it has the only
audio previews I could find). "Creeping Jane" especially is really quite
exotic, yet annotation on the page wouldn't really have picked this up in the
same way as the technology that allowed us to hear Taylor's phrasing in
that particular moment.

_http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field
-keywords=joseph+taylor_
(http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias=digital-music&field-keywords=joseph+taylor)

And now we can hear this voice from the past at the click of a mouse.

Jude x


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Sandra Dodd

-=-
And now we can hear this voice from the past at the click of a mouse. -
=-

That was very cool.

I have, on cassette tape, recordings taken (by me through the air) of
78s of ballads taken from wax cylinder. Yikes. Fragile. And not
well cataloged. <g>

College. I had a professor who had lots of old field recordings on
78s. I went to his funeral when he died in the 1980s. I didn't ask
for the records. Maybe they're at the university.

Sandra

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Here's the link, so you can hear the lituus (you can hear it best
after the singing at the beginning):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8075321.stm

Robin B.

On Jun 6, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8075223.stm
>
> This was on the Medieval Trivia yahoo list. It's a link to a BBC
> article:
>
> New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten
> musical instrument called the Lituus.







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Robin Bentley

Yup. It was there on Saturday, but alas, not now.

Robin B.

On Jun 8, 2009, at 12:49 PM, nymodels2@... wrote:

> said "page not found"
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