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In the Thread: Hildegard von Bingen on vinyl
Post Subject: GardzienicePosted by N-set on: 4/23/2011
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 twogoodears wrote: |
| .... it was all music extrapolated from papyrus (yes...) fragments, mostly from German museums vaults... |
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When you read how the Gardzienice project approached the reconstruction of the music, at least in a, so to say, technical layerÂ
it's light years ahead of a mere "extrapolating from papyrus": they've tried to reconstruct from all possible angles they could reach,
studying e.g. mosaics with preforming musicians to learn what poses and possible dynamics of the bodies they used.
Then learning how to play that way, not to mention their own reconstructions of the instruments, studies of the poetry
and the language itself, etc etc.
Still, the final effect my Greek friend called "bavarian" and probably he is right: althought being very interesting and
(to my very-very limited knowledge) quite unique in it's holistic approach, it's sort of heavy and emotionally hysteric.
One should keep in mind though that this music has been re-created for a purpose of a dramatical performance.
PS: Stefano, madonna mia, I am not any kind of an audio(pedo)phile and saying that something is a must for them means
run from it for me
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