Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White
Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White
I’m sure it’s nothing personal.
I wholeheartedly agree!
One of the things out group does is play for dancers at reenactment events. The dance steps were recorded for a lot of the Renaissance period pieces, and it’s pretty incredible to be able to coordinate the tunes for the same dances from hundreds of years ago.
It really changes the atmosphere of an event to have music around; it’s a living connection to history.
Here is a video of a professional Renaissance recorder consort in lower voicings (the lowest I believe being contrabass) that shows how great they are. They do get a bad reputation because it’s easy to make them squeak really badly as a beginner (and especially as a young person with no musical training). They really are a great introductory instrument into early music though; you can get a plastic tenor for about $40 and it’ll be the same one professionals practice on regularly.
I got started in early music on modern guitar with a book of tabs, and it was a great way in. I later met up with a local group who pointed me towards some great resources, and I loved it so much that I wanted to go deeper by learning to play an actual period instrument. I did some research and talked to a bunch of people for advice on what to buy and finally picked one up and took some lessons at the beginning of the year. It’s a lot harder to get into than guitar, but it’s also incredibly rewarding.
I play early music as an amateur, and I’ve seen a few fun older instruments around.
I’m currently learning the renaissance lute, a bowl-backed six to 8 course precursor (sort of) to the modern guitar. It has a large period repertoire that can be played pretty accurately due to the surviving tablature and plentiful treatises on technique and style. It is a plucked instrument, they really weren’t strummed much like a modern guitar.
The older variant, the medieval lute, was primarily a strummed instrument; the musician would usually hold a quill or similar tool as a plectrum. The notation at the time was not as complete as what we are used to (and there are also far fewer sources on how to read it), but there is some very good scholarship in the field that gives us a pretty decent guess on how the repertoire sounded.
The recorder went through a kind of revival in the early 20th century, as it was a fairly easy folk instrument to mass produce while also being beginner friendly (since you don’t really need to develop your embrasure to make a passable sound). The modern variety is known as the baroque recorder, and has a standardized fingering with a more mellow sound than it’s earlier counterparts. Incidentally, flutes are likely some of the oldest instruments that humanity produced, with the oldest known example being a cave bear bone flute probably made by a Neanderthal.
I’ve wondered why that line “this is where the fish lives” was in the script for literal decades now.
The Touch of Satan always stuck with me.
Sign my guestbook!
Maybe worth looking into alpha-gal syndrome?
There’s a cafe near me that does a BLAT/americano combo lunch and it’s so good.
The idea of someone trying to sell a Lemmy account is pretty funny though.
It’s defederated from .world, the largest Lemmy instance.
Poodles are the best dogs. So smart.
I’ve been told there are mods for everything.
“Good people of the jury, my client is guilty of nothing more than merely forgetting to append ‘in Minecraft,’ to his statement.”
But my point is that the long jump reduces the hitbox. They’re both crouch-jumps, just different forms.
You had to long-jump into little spaces that would be too big to fit in normally.
I mean, you use the long jump to reach some crouch-jump spots. It’s a type of crouch-jump.
HL1 had the long-jump upgrade where you had to do a crouch jump to use it.
If you’re never seen Columbo, you’re in for a treat.
Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.
From Romeo and Juliet: