Medieval Music "Vox Vulgaris - Stella Splendens"

I've been planning for a year to post this and I've finally managed to do it. One of the best songs from "The Shape of the Medieval Music to Come" by Vox Vulgaris... In which the flute is absolutely brilliant. I haven't got time to search for all the authors of the pictures I put with the movie so I apologize to any of them if they find their work here.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• medieval
• music
• vox
• vulgaris
• death
• knight
• jousting
• templars
• crusade

[ABdadaSURD]

It would be awesome to be able to play this music. I should really take up an instrument :)

Time to party like it's 1099!!!!

[unenlightenedbajie]

@SoldierofMetal1 The piece is believed to have been written by the 14th C. French poet and musician Guillaume De Machaut, who was pretty heavily influenced by the Arabian instruments imported to Europe following the Crusades. The stringed instrument that Stella Splendens was originally intended for was probably the uud/oud, a Middle-Eastern predecessor of the lute. This recording could well have been performed on a lute accompanied by the bagpipes (another Arabian import), and a flute.

[Strefanasha]

@xzombieViolinist I was a professional who never found the benefits worth it. different strokes for different folks

[xzombieViolinist]

@Strefanasha Amen to that. I'm a current music major going for my undergrad...it's definitely a lot of work. The benefits are truly worth it though, for amateurs and professionals alike!

[wazthatme]

This music really fits with the city I am making in minecraft its medieval based near the end so with light houses and a lot of hidden paths so I cant wait tell i am done with it ^_^ ill be shore to upload a video of it when I am done.

[bledikslt]

I can't.....can't...not to listen to these masterpiece's . I like liquid DnB and maybe this even more. Remember playing stronghold and this kind of music in the background. Ah....

[MarquiseOfHearts]

Oh dear, this is beautiful :O

But someone tell me: whose is that painting in the beginning with the skeleton and knight?

[haribohospital27]

Felicitarile mele pt toate postarile.si eu iubesc muzica medievala.Numai bine!

[Strefanasha]

@ABdadaSURD if you want to be able to play any instrument to a decent standard be prepared for HARD HARD HARD work and also be prepared to do it DAILY; which habit may instead become drudgery.

being a musician is not all it is cracked up to be unless you are so obsessed you can think of nothing else.

I was a musician but not obsessed enough, talent without obsession will not be enough to get there

now i am content to be a listener again

[gcpropertymanagement]

@SoldierofMetal1: This is beautiful. Can you tell any more about the derivation of the song itself or about Guillaume De Machaut? I would like to find more work like this by the same author.

[MrPisster]

what scale is the intro playing in? I want to bust something like this on the guitar.

[AndreaSPitaim]

What is the instrument soloing from 3:33 on?

It does not seem to be a lute.