[Ansteorra-announce] Fw: [SCA_BARDS] Proposed new bardic publication

Susan Gideon twilit16 at swbell.net
Fri May 21 12:21:08 PDT 2004


Greetings,

I just got this email thought I'ed pass it on to the ansteorra list.
Baroness Elayne 
Eldern Hills

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dr. Shelley Rabinovitch 
To: Bards-Ealdormere 
Cc: Ealdormere list ; Pennsic bardic list ; SCA_BARDS at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: [SCA_BARDS] Proposed new bardic publication


Greetings all from TSivia!

The bards of Ealdormere had a conclave (circle although it was mostly ovoid
in shape) at our Crown tournament a week ago and I asked our newer bards
"What can WE [the elder bards in the Kingdom] offer YOU?"  Lots of what we
were told had to do with teaching.

So.  Technology has given us the chance to do something unprecedented in the
history of the SCA's arts and sciences.  I'm willing to throw my hat in as
project co-ordinator as my life is not that cluttered at the moment (just
two books looking to meet deadlines...LOL!).  Here is the plan:

I have been talking off-list to a number of talented web-specialists, who
work with html codes, web design, and much much more.  I have been
consulting with some of the more senior (in experience) bardic types from
around the SCA (at least the ones I have email addresses for).   NOW I am
turning to the bards of the SCA through three different email lists (and
PLEASE feel free to forward this onto Household e-lists, kingdom lists,
principality lists, A&S lists, etc. etc.).

I would like to see if there is interest in launching a Bardic Arts magazine
covering ALL the activities within the SCA which we could call "Bardic".  I
suggest the name "Bardic Musings" (because of the wonderful pun).  It would
start at every other month "publication", and be primarily an on-line
magazine.  (We would also offer paper copies for those who are not web
enabled, or who don't want to spend the time printing off a copy.)

My wish list (AND every last one of you are very VERY welcome to help in all
ways) includes:

- PICTURES of bards at events (or not at SCA functions if it's a bardic
tie-in such as Mistress Marian of Heatherdale's recent honour acting as
"Lady of the Roses" at a major musical function in Cornwall, U.K.)

- HOW to articles. How to compose modal music; how to write a ballad; how to
write sestinas; how to stage a mystery play; how to be heard in a hall;
stage presence; how to entertain for children; how to research period
stories; how to write stories/current middle ages music/poetry, etc. etc.

- HISTORICAL articles.  Trouveres and troubadours in 12th century Aquitaine.
The courts of love and their effects on medieval love poems.  Biblical
imagery in a particular author's works.  Islamic influence on sufi love
poems.  The effects of the printing press on popular music.  and SO MUCH
MORE!!

- ORIGINAL works.  Poems in period forms.  Songs in period forms.
Instrumental compositions in original styles.  How to present a Shakespeare
piece in its original stageing.  Original stories.

- NOTATED and /or MP3 files of Current Middle Ages works and/or source
music.  The Child Ballad project ties in here as it's an
available-to-everyone source for one style of period and periodesque music.
This is a way to SHARE the works being created all across the SCA which we
"oooh  ahh" over at large events.

-  REVIEWS: of performances at big events like Pennsic, Estrella, Gulf, etc.
etc.; new mundane music and/or musicians you think would be of interest to
SCAers.  CD releases by SCA musicians.  BOOKS which are good sources for SCA
bardic activities...etc. etc.

- LANGUAGE articles: translations from other languages, compositions IN
foreign tongues (or old tongues, such as Latin, Middle English, Old Norse,
etc. etc.).

- IMAGES (digitized) of musicians, performers, poets from period sources
(and therefore copyright-free).  This could become a real sharing source for
SCA publications and researchers.  I have an entire photo collection of the
musicians carved on the lintels of just about every arch at Beverley Minster
<Yorkshire>, and there are over 50 of them! (Beverly was the patron city of
musicians in England, and there are wonderful representations of musicians
all over the city!)

- NEWS on bards who have received accolades: those who are named bard of a
barony, Kingdom, principality; those who have received an Arts award
(Kingdom or SCA wide); mundane appearances of SCA bards, those who win large
bardic competitions...etc. etc.

- NEWS on any mundane research which ties into what we do as Bards. (E.g.
anyone's research which names a period song in some source prior to 1650; a
new manuscript of notated instrumental music showing up in some old chruch's
attic, etc. etc.)

I have asked some of the well-established bards to look through their
archives for old pieces they wrote and may have had published over the
years.  Dust them off, and submit them HERE! My first article on
English/Scottish border ballads was in T.I. back in around 1977 or so; I'll
lay bets it's a pretty "new" article to most folks on these lists!

I don't want this to become "just" a music/song bardic publication. I really
WANT this to cover the entire scope of SCA bardic activities: plays, poems,
ballads, instrumental music, storytelling - maybe even puppetry, fool'ing?

I need YOUR help on this project.  I've been setting up the technical help
and now I need the writers/composers/
storytellers to start to pitch in.  (Many of us are SHY ...even if the
outsiders don't believe it!!....and so it's a great way to get some of your
writing and work out where people can see it without making yourself a
nervous wreck!)

I'd like to have this up and flying so that the first issue will be out
before Pennsic (August).  This way we can have some sample copies available
for those who haven't heard about it but would want to join the project and
we can start networking before the biggest SCA function of the year.

So: Feedback time.  Does this appeal? Have I missed things you'd like to see
in Bardic Musings?  Do you have specific WANTS I could try and get included?
Do you have pieces we can use?

We haven't decided on the web address YET but I have had a couple of very
good offers of web space <yaay!> to consider as our location on the
Internet.

**THIS IS NOT MY MAGAZINE; THIS IS YOUR MAGAZINE!**  How can we make this
the best publication you could have dreamed for?

In your service
TSivia (and the amorphous Bardic Musings collective)
tsivia at uottawa.ca



Submissions which cannot be sent via the internet can be mailed to:

Shelley Rabinovitch
149 Thornbury Crescent
Nepean, Ontario K2G 6C3
Canada

(Please note that postage to Canada will cost Americans a bit more than
domestic rates.  Verify before posting!)



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