[gothic-l] Ostrogothic or Visigothic Music

[hakan36 at SPRAY.SE]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "sunburst" <sunburst at j...> wrote:
> 
> >This is a great site! I need to know though, for the purposes of 
my web
> page,
> >and for personal enjoyment, to what degree is the music on those 
CDs
> >authentic (by scholarly standards) and to what degree does it rely 
on
> >inspiration? Even traditions where we have a lot of evidence often 
require
> >much artistry to reconstruct in a recordable form, and I haven't 
the
> foggiest
> >idea how much evidence we have in the Germanic world beyond what 
you've
> told
> >me so far.
> 
> 
> In my older work, the language and poetic form are authentic.  Some 
of the
> songs are in fact poems from ancient times (such as DEOR) and 
others are
> written by myself and others.  As for the music, little survived 
concerning
> original Germanic music.  On these works I have primarily used 
inspiration,
> but trying to follow some parameters of the oldest known medieval 
tunes.  I
> have since discovered much more, including some authentic melodies, 
but I
> did not have those yet in the time of my first three releases.  The 
main
> features on those are the Germanic lyre, the Anglo-Saxon language 
(Gothic
> language on my next) and Germanic Alliterative Verse.
> 
> Albareiks

Hails!
I greet all friends of ancient music. I happened to find one of my 
favouritemusicgroups on the internet. The group is called 
Hedningarna, "the heathens". It´s possible to download a sample of 
the nordic bagpipe. Some existing as late as the 19th c. As the 
existed in many countries in europe during the medieval-
ages. "Dolkaren" has medieval roots."Metsän tyttö" is in an old-
fashioned song in finnish chanting singing style. If I find something 
about "the Hurdy-Gurdy", I will get in touch. That instrument and 
the "tail-harp", tagelharpan, I find very interesting. The strings 
were usually made by horse-tail and has an "ancient sound. 

http://www.nc.chalmers.se/staff/gk/hedning.sv.htm


Håkan Liljeberg


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