[ SECRET POST #2880 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2880 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[/r/nosleep, nosleep podcast]


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[Awful Hospital]


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09. [ SPOILERS for Lewis/Inspector Lewis ]




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11. [ WARNING for abuse ]

[Megatokyo]


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12. [ WARNING for child abuse/sexual abuse ]

[Adventure Time, Lena Dunham]


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[Gotham]


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Comments

[anonymous4]

It's precisely because it's from the 18th/19th century -- and even more, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- that I love it so much. For me, it's time travelling as well as music.

[dethtoll]

That's how I feel about jazz, and I like that depending on what I listen to it could take me back to 1925 or 1975 and anywhere in between.

In part this is why I was never the biggest fan of fantasy (hence why I don't really know what to look for and am asking for recs in GC) -- go far enough back in history and I have trouble really connecting to it, it doesn't really mean anything to me. The 1890s is probably my hard limit for how far back I can go -- in fiction, music, whatever -- and still enjoy myself.

And I get really angry at fantasy settings that try to use real-world historical problems like the frequency of rape and subjugation of women to justify putting that shit in their fantasy settings. You have a fucking fantasy setting with orcs and elves and fucking wizards and, fuck I dunno, talking goddamn slimes, but you insist on applying the real-world historical status of women just to justify the creepy rape scene you wrote?

[(Anonymous)]

I love music from the Middle Ages. Not sure if it's considered "classical" per se, or if it's just lumped in there for convenience's sake.

One of my favourites, which gives me that "time travel" feeling you mentioned is The Courts of Love: Music from the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine (Sinfonye). I just adore it!

Also had a selection of "ancient music" that was published by a museum, featuring music played on authentic instruments.

P.S. Yes, yes, I listen to pop music too. Not a snob.

[anonymous4]

I think 'classical' is widely used in two senses -- to refer to music of the Haydn-Mozart-early Beethoven period, and to refer to just about anything that isn't popular music, jazz, or folk.

I will look out for that CD. I love Perotin and Machaut, and performers who emphasise how different Mediaeval music is -- like Ensemble Organum, Rene Clemencic and -- very old now -- Musica Reservata. One of my favourite CDs is Le Chant des Templiers by Ensemble Organum. They really sound like soldiers the night before a battle.

I don't listen to pop, but I don't think I'm a snob... I mean, there are only so many listening hours in the day.

[(Anonymous)]

What really appeals to me about medieval music (aside from the fact that I think the medieval period is general is glossed over because the Renaissance! the Renaissance!), or maybe I should say about groups who sing medieval music, is the really different sound. I mean, I don't want medieval songs that are sung in the style of today's opera singers - I want more of the way that it probably would have sounded at the time. So Ensemble Organum might be what just I'm looking for.

Thanks for the rec! (A classical music rec in a secret about how over-rated classical music is. Go figure.)
:)

[anonymous4]

I want more of the way that it probably would have sounded at the time.

Yes, and even though it's only a best guess and is probably nothing like how it would actually have sounded, I enjoy hearing the possibilities!

I think you'll like Ensemble Organum.

Musica Reservata made a record -- I have it on vinyl! -- of music from the age of the Troubadours, and I remember, as a student, buying it, putting it on the record player, and it was as if the people I'd been reading about had suddenly come to life and were singing and dancing for me!

[(Anonymous)]

Is that the recording that begins with Andrea von Ramm singing "Kalenda Maya"? I have that one--and like you, I played it over and over as a college student. (Also Clemencic's "Roman de Fauvel" and Hesperion 20's Cansos de Trobairitz.

[anonymous4]

Yes! (Though I thought it was Jantina Noorman singing).

Also, I love Clemenicic's Carmina Burana!

[(Anonymous)]

It's so sad, and typical of the inverted snobbery crawling all over this post, that you felt you had to add that PS. You don't *have* to like any kind of music, and it absolutely isn't snobbish to like classical music rather than modern. It's personal taste.

*raves over medieval and renaissance music with you* I once sang in a scratch performance of Spem in Alium at Waltham Abbey where Thomas Tallis was organist/choirmaster.