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Gone to Dreamwidth, like so many of you! Find me there under the same username -- although I continue to be more active on FB and G+ than anywhere else, so hit me up if you need/want that info. -
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Hello all!
I'm just dropping a quick post here to prevent LJ from deciding I don't exist any more. I'm still popping in occasionally to read, and am grateful for those of you still making use of this excellent format! -
Still kicking
... more than a year since my last entry?!? Oy.
I am still alive -- and still reading here, although that only sporadically. There's a lot of music and SCA and school/activities/camp for the mini-monkey and stuff going on, and every time I think about sitting down to write a catch-up post things just get away from me, like they do. :P ( Read more... ) -
Ancient Sumerian through 20th-century music mss.
Useful for looking at the evolution of music notation over time:
The Schoyen Collection
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Analogues and symbols
"Dear Lady of my thoughts, dear Lady Cunard, time turns all things into analogues and symbols, and in the course of the years I have come to think of you as an evening fountain under embosoming trees. The fountain murmurs, sings, exults; it welcomes every coming minute; and when the dusk deepens in the garden and the gallants enfold their ladies in ( Read more... ) -
Chansonnier de Navarre
I can't remember if I've linked this here before or not, but here it is (again?) anyway -- a beautiful 13th-century French manuscript songbook, full of interesting pieces by an array of trouvères: Recueil de chansons du XIIIe siècle, avec musique notéeI'm contemplating attempting to transcribe a song, mostly as an exercise in assessing exactly how ( Read more... ) -
"This our opus / That binds in ligatures beloved and lover"
The gray felt daylong dusk of winter skies ( Read more... ) -
More chansonniers!
The Copenhagen and Loire Valley Chansonniers, important collections of French chansons, are now available in an open-access edition (both texts and music), complete with links to the digitized manuscripts. All kinds of interesting analysis and background here, in addition to sheet music and translated lyrics! -
Contrafactum, with caution
Singing to Another Tune: Contrafacture & Attribution in Troubadour Song -- interesting reading, with a nice list of cold hard factual examples of melodic/structural borrowings.