SC - Feast entertainment

[Jeanne Stapleton]

- --- Aeddan ap Trahaearn <aeddan at the-shores.com> wrote:
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> > In a message dated 8/13/00 12:26:27 AM Eastern
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> > apiskp at yahoo.com writes:
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> > << And that's another tiny peeve of mine:  I don't
> think
> >  there should be back-to-back entertainment all
> evening
> >  that completely usurps any opportunity for
> conversa-
> >  tion.   >>
> > 
> > Entertainment at medieval feasts was for the most
> part in between
> > courses and/or music (*vocal or instrumental) was
> used as background
> > music. The 'entertainers should not expect to be
> 'listened' to if they
> > perform during the feast. That is (or was) not
> their function. The
> > diners should realize they need not listen and
> continue with their
> > conversations. 
> > 
> > Ras
> I agree.  I think this is why the musicians were
> seated in a gallery 
> above the hall.  So they might be heard but not
> seen.
> 
Great if you can get a hall with a gallery...when
there has been one, it was *great*.

Berengaria

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