[Steppes] Musicians among the populace?

[Jann Mays]

Many years ago, Steppes used to have a musicians guild.  You would be surprised
how many closet musicians you may find in the Steppes (our Baron, for one,
plays a mean 'flûte à bec' !).

HL Gabrielle
--- Russell and Erika Kinder <Russell_Erika at comcast.net> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Just to clarify, Isabeau was referring specifically to instrumental, 
> primarily non-vocal music. Not that we have anything against vocal 
> music, but as our friend the bard has stated, we already have a bardic 
> meeting. So basically, we will be doing "not bardic". This is an 
> opportunity for musicians to come together and learn to play as an 
> ensemble.
> 
> One could correctly infer that we will be encouraging the playing of 
> courtly dance music, but pretty much whatever period pieces the 
> musicians want to play will be fine. I have Master Avatar's dance music 
> book, and I'm sure other musicians have other music.
> 
> Anything from Hildegard von Bingen to Cantigas de Santa Maria to 
> Praetorius is great.
> 
> Best regards to everyone,
> HL Guillaume de Troyes
> 
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at 06:22  PM, Nzingha, The Moor Of Dundee 
> wrote:
> 
> > Bard here...Leza Mesiah aka Nzingha, The Moor Of Dundee and her twin 
> > Nzingha, The Moor Of Cordoba...We already  DO have a Steppes Music 
> > group that already meets once a month to get to gether to play and 
> > highlight our works...Singing together would be nice also.   Right now 
> > I'm in Scarborough Faire Rehersals as a performer and will be MIA from 
> > the Music group, but it's comforting to know that the Bardic Group is 
> > there.. Thanks...   www.moorofdundee.com
> >
> >
> > Barbara Lee <barb at barbsgarb.com> wrote:
> > There's two of us up in Glaslyn. And an aspiring 4yr old. We would 
> > love to
> > get a group together. My lord, Lorenzo, and I are both graduates with
> > Bachelor's degrees in music. He is currently doing his Master's in the 
> > same
> > with a minor in music history, so we've gotten to play around with 
> > period
> > music a lot.
> >
> > We both are recorder players, though sadly dedicated to soprano 
> > recorders at
> > the moment, through lack of other instruments. We have a fairly large
> > selection of period music from both of our studies.
> >
> > Barbara Lee the Merchant
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Russell and Erika Kinder"
> > To:
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:56 PM
> > Subject: [Steppes] Musicians among the populace?
> >
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I was just wondering how many musicians there are out there in the 
> >> Steppes
> >> populace. I was also wondering if said musicians would like to get
> >> together and have an informal meeting/ practice/ jam session every 
> >> once in
> >> a while.
> >>
> >> I'm sure that if there is any interest, we could come up with a 
> >> location
> >> for said meeting without too much of a problem.
> >>
> >> I don't actually play any musical instruments, but I love listening to
> >> medieval and renaissance music, and enjoy all SCA endeavors about 100X
> >> more when live musicians are around.
> >>
> >> ~ HL Isabeau, enthusiastic music listener
> >>
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