Medieval music - gothic harp

[Luthval]

Bravo ! very nice !

[C6H12B26]

Yes, very good ! We play it on the Renaissance lute under the name " Basse DanseLa Roque" (Attaingnant). It is linked to the famous italian piece " La roca(&) el fuso ". So it is an idea of weaving.

Great thanks !

[JoelvanLennep]

This is a piece from the Pierre Attaignant lute publication of 1929. It sounds good on the Gothic harp, and the player's sharping of a note in the lower range is deft.

[cdloff]

brays, please...

[SelahtNotlin]

Where can I find it?

[billytherockfish]

Gorgeos,, more please :)

[WoWcmb]

I'd do her...

[theranger800]

this sounds nothing like the cure. i was robbed.

[magghina95]

Brava!

[SintetizersGuitars]

i have these sheet music for classical guitar! =D

[boysphere]

Hey this tune sounds familiar,check out at blackmore's night renaissance fair,it sounds almost the same :P anyway nice playing

[VegaEtereo]

Sweet.

[Geekella]

very lovely skills you have there

[masqueradefaerielady]

I really want to learn how to play the harp someday I love the way it sounds. This tune is prettty. When I close my eyes I feel like I'm in medieval times.

[peddletoneG]

Hope you don't mind, I just stumbled on this site....you probably know how to play the harp a little, even though you haven't tried. Test drive one at a folk music store, they're not expensive at this size. Some strings are colored, and are octaves of each other. You would soon learn, and then, it's just picking out the tunes/chords. You'd need something to tune it to, but the maker would tune it first, usually include a tuner, then you just maintain. The harp will teach you how to play.

[YvlisAnavlis]

bellissimo quando premi sulla corda! è per il mezzo tono? che meraviglia! che el suono e poi sei bravissima!

[bulletofdarkness]

Muito boa a música sim, quem me dera ter uma harpa para brincar eheh.

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Great song, I wish I had a harp to play with sometimes :p

[songpidgeon]

Ooo! so pretty! rich tone to this harp too!

XxSarah

[divustitus]

Elena Polanska--Harpist extraordinaire.

[Fafyner]

Muito boa a música.

[MuaySar]

Simply beautiful, wish I could play like that. Wish I even had an harp!

[8888themaster8888]

word lol i wish i had a harp tooo!

[Ballyvourney]

Hello!

your harp is very beautiful!

In this days i will build with a luthier a similar harp...:))) mine is from the end of '400 from the depict of Hyeronimus Bosch...

Strings are gut or nylon??

if you can answer me......

[GothN00b]

uhhh...nylon?

[tilintela]

Very nice this little harp!!

[thunderheart226]

lol i just watched a documentary about the middle ages..with all the wars and tribes....when did this music come about?the kings servants?

[rabarbers35]

Horosho!!

[aerosmithgirl13]

whered u get ur little harp? i need one thts small like tht. not a big soundboard and all so i cn travel with it.

[evogecko]

es una hermosa melodia!!!!!

[LeaYesterday]

peralta2944, el "tono" está bien... Simplemente se le va un poco la ejecución prolija de la nota, pero no es nada loco y la pieza está muy bien ejecutada.

[peralta2944]

el erra en un tono a los 40 segundos, pero bastante bien.

[Darlene617]

MadHatterAmber,

Yes there is... Medieval style architecture is refered to as gothic, that's where it came from. Gothic also refers to shape, not just music styles. And it was known as that long before what we call goth style today came along. The shape of that harp she is playing in the video is known as the gothic harp shape. There is also medieval armor known as gothic armor and old style churches and castles are known as gothic style architecture.

[BjoornTorsk]

@Darlene617 @Darlene617 ...Which in itself has nothing to do with the gothic peoples (Visi- and Ostrogoths), other than that they were considered barbaric and foul by the late renaissance cultural elite; as was the gothic architecture. The result was that the "barbaric" architecture was named after the "barbaric" goths, long after anybody had last sen a living (pre-medieval) goth or "gothic" (i.e. south-/central europe high-medieval) architect. :) Sorry for being geeky...

[Pawnbroker00]

@BjoornTorsk True.. but gothic also refers to german things, like the "gothic" castles of prussia

[BjoornTorsk]

@Pawnbroker00 Yes, but that is probably a description of the architecture. The gothic language is in fact considered a germanic language (as is English, Swedish and, of course, German), but not a north germanic one like German, but rather an east germanic one. I know that at least some well educated swedes in the 19th century claimed the swedes to be closely related to the goths (which is false) merely because of prestige, and it would not surprise me if some germans had done that too.

[praling]

so in short you pwnt urself

[Quetzal84]

It's a manner of saying... -_-

[Quetzal84]

manner of "speaking"... sorry

[wwelti]

Fantastic! Great technique as well!

[AWYeager]

Nice, you are doing well.

[banjer101]

wow!

[culturehorse]

A fair song, lady, well sung .. (may we hear more if you please :^)

[mrmartinmartin]

Excellent sound.

[Kas0n]

that harp makes a very nice sound! Better than most smal harps I've come across! Are all gothic harps like that, or is this an exceptionally special one?

[arktischeSonne]

I like this instrument

[anthropofagos]

so beautiful

please, dont hide if possible

[Aljazhhh]

how much does a harp like this cost

[conniedudette]

£100 plus

[TheRune5capeShow]

Gawsome. Because it's a Gothic Harp, and it's awesome, so, gawsome. =-)

No but seriously, it sounds pretty.

[Gealach74]

very nice! i like the ludovico's semitone fret system:-)

[hagiaadrasteia]

So very lovely... thank you for this post! I have to dust of my Lady and convince her to sing for me again after some time of neglect... You have inspired me.