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trying medieval string instruments - Rachel Barton Pine

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Uploaded by on Aug 14, 2007

Rachel Barton Pine plays early string instruments for the first time: the medieval box fiddle, the medieval vielle, and the renaissance (1500's-style) violin. David Douglass, artistic director of the King's Noyse and the Newberry Consort and one of the foremost practitioners of these instruments, jams with her on rebec and renaissance viola.

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  • Medieval music allows the liberal use of quarter tones, much like Indian music.

    Until the early 20th century, quarter tone intonation was permissible in Western classical music. The absolute dumping of quarter tones in music is a relatively modern phenomenon.

    This all sounds fine and in character to me.

  • Herodotus is right. Medieval manuscripts seem to indicate different tuning systems than those of modern music.

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  • Terribly cool how vastly different the violin sounds when held like that ...

  • She looks like a Bohemian, hippy environmentalist, LOL.

  • You guys sound good.

  • Sounds like some Philippe de Vitry! Haha. Looks so fun, Rachel!

  • Do these have soundposts and bass bars inside too?

  • Is this piece of music called a Ductia?

  • ... OK, but NO "quarter tones" in any sense, that myth...

  • well all european folk music, from celtic, scandinavian to slavic and mediterranean, make use of notes outside the well tempered scales, and intervals smaller than a half step, i think thats what HuangKaiVun refers to, not 'quarter tones'such as we have in music theory today. playing medieval music with a 'modern' intonation would be like playing bach on the piano, which isnt such a bad thing after all

  • omg i want one!!

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