[Bards] THIS IS BIG! Fw: [SCA_BARDS] Proposed new bardic publication

Mon May 24 06:46:58 PDT 2004

Your Excellency,
         I think this is a terrific idea, and a wonderful opportunity for 
expression, as well as research. I look forward to hearing more, and I am 
already contemplating possible submissions.

In Service,
Ly. Anna bat Chaim
Barony of the Steppes
Kingdom of Ansteorra

Cathy Polakoff
972-416-2674
cathy.polakoff at comcast.net

At 08:58 AM 05/22/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>What a fantastic idea! Just wanted to let all of you
>in on this too! Her Excellency Tsivia has really hit
>it big with this one!
>
>Lady Eleanor Cleavely
>Barony of Sun Dragon
>Kingdom of Atenveldt
>
> > ----- 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 8:39 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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>=====
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>and the Chocolate Factory
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