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PHOTO 45: David Munrow - Henry VIII Suite EP (BBC)

Bought an equvilant LP by multi-instrumenatlist David Munrow with Elizabethean/Tudor type instruments for my brother and for him to make samples, on which Henry VIII is credited with an array of tracks as songwriter. Though Henry was known to play the Lute I believe he may have accreditted himself with other peoples work, unsure either way. This BBC Records 45 is the second ive found the other a soundtrack. If you come across BBC recordings I'd recommend picking them up as there lies something good.

1970.

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Music of the Gothic Era

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The Early Music Consort of London & David Munrow

* Lp info

David Munrow. English early music pioneer: · http://davidmunrow.org

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Anonymous/David Munrow · Early Music Consort of London, T'Andernaken I The Art of the Netherlands, 1976

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328: David Munrow with the Early Music Consort of London // Festival of Early Music

Festival of Early Music David Munrow with the Early Music Consort of London 1977, Argo

Every record collection has a few random classical LPs kind of jammed in the last corner of the lowest shelf, found or inherited selections skimmed from the canon. Out of a collection of like 600, let’s give a round of applause for the battered, underplayed late ‘60s copies of Liszt, Mussorgsky, Satie, Dvořák, (and whoever Janis Kļaviņs is), etc. that I have no recollection of acquiring. Today’s review is kind of a tip of the cap to those guys, since despite my fondness and appreciation of classical music I am a malodorous clod who couldn’t tell the difference between a madrigal and a conductus and a tenorlied even if offered many tens of dollars, let alone whether the instrument I am hearing is a crumhorn or a noble sackbut. That kinda terminology is all over the liners of this triple LP boxed set collecting the three records David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London cut for Argo Records between 1969 and 1973: Ecco La Primavera: Florentine Music Of The 14th Century, Songs of Love and War: Music Of The Crusades (compositions 1137 to 1250), and The Triumphs of Maximilian I (late 15th to early 16th centuries). I like reading the notes by Munrow and other musicologists, which mix a gloss of the history of the times with brief, trenchant analyses of the music that I am again too unschooled to understand. But I like to listen!

Munrow himself was an interesting figure. Just 33 when he took his own life in a fit of despair, he had already become the seminal figure in what would become an international revival of interest in so-called Early Music, an era spanning the Medieval and Renaissance periods in Europe. A musician and a scholar, he played a great role in research on reconstructing playing techniques from the antiquated notation that survives from the period; rehabilitating traditional instruments; and promulgating these forms as a lecturer and a radio presenter. He was also apparently an extremely deft recorder player, which feels like the musical equivalent of being a world-renowned chalkboard scratcher but speaks to his passion for the purity of more rudimentary forms of music-making.

None of the compositions on these records have the type of melodic or compositional sweep of the symphonies of the Classical or Romantic periods—they are largely short selections that will undoubtedly bring to mind church processions and royal courts, the winds and strings having that distinctly reedy quality that makes my stomach groan for a Medieval Times chicken dinner. Despite my philistinism, I find each of these three albums make for lovely background music for working or reading, and as a lapsed poet I’m appreciative that the compilers include full lyric translations of each song: the Florentine pieces are largely romantic tales of love proposed or thwarted, with a few moral fables tossed in; the Crusades’ pieces are very much “God weeps because you have not throttled the Turk” propaganda, though the threads of faith, outrage, political gamesmanship, and mourning have resonance to this very day; those of Maximilian’s day include a variety of laments, invitations to dance, and instructions for the appropriate ringing of bells.

328/365

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Soncino Fantasy 2025: Musica Medievale

La Rocca di Soncino (CR) ha ospitato il Soncino Fantasy 2025: un evento magico durante il quale gli amanti del fantasy possono trovare l'incarnazione dei propri sogni!

Tra le principali attrazioni, ci sono anche alcuni gruppi di musica medievale, di cui offriamo qualche assaggio.

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Artists, Do You Listen to Music While Creating Art?

Hey, fellow artists! Question time — do you listen to music while creating your art, and if so, what sorts of music do you listen to? I'm listening to music all the time, including when I'm drawing. I often try to listen to something matching the mood or general theme of what I'm working on at that moment. If I'm drawing a medieval knight, I'll listen to medieval music (I really like David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London). If I'm drawing a monster, I'll listen to Midnight Syndicate's Monsters of Legend. If I'm drawing something Celtic-inspired, I'll listen to Celtic music. If it's something scifi, I'll listen to Star Wars or Doctor Who soundtracks.

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David Munrow deserved better.

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I'd forgotten what a mad genius David Munrow was. If only we had someone like him today, to educate general audiences on all the developments in historical musicology, technique, and performance practice we've made since the 1970s. But would anyone care?

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we used to have a cassette recording off the radio from the 80s (but originally from the 70s) of David Munrow talking about "outdoor music" from around the world, and it included some scandinavian cow calling song like that that we've never forgotten (losing that cassette was a terrible sorrow, as it looks like the BBC have lost the recordings now) - haunting af

Kulning - Swedish Herding Call - Malin Skinnar - Unesco World heritage - Kosinska Wojtasik

Malin Skinnar Storyteller

Yesterday I saw a reel at Facebook of a little girls singing to several dogs cuddling next to her with their eyes shut and looking as in heavenly bliss. Matthew Ingram posts intersting links and posted a version of this Swedish Herding call today. Singing to other than humans has a long history. From childhood The William Tell Overature was one of the records in our house. There is a familiar section, Call To The Cows. I suspect there is a ouvere of songs to explore.

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Pierre de Molins / David Munrow, Amis tout dous vis I The Art of Courtly Love, 1973

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From the soundtrack to the film version of ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII”

I always feel so sorry for Catherine in this scene - She is being questioned by Archbishop Cranmer who tries to get her to confess to pre contract with Francis Dereham. Catherine refuses to acknowledge any existing attachment, but is then wrong footed by the Archbishop as he reveals that he knows about Catherine’s relationship with Thomas Culpepper. The music brilliantly reflects the Queen’s growing panic as she realises that there is no escape for her and that she is going to face the same fate as Anne Boleyn 👑🪓

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Thanks for tagging me @krysoslov !!

I’d probably pick these

1. Mose Allison Sings - Mose Allison

2. The Meters (1969) - The Meters

3. Instruments of Middle Age and Renaissance - David Munrow/Early Music Consort of London

4. Below the Salt - Steeleye Span

5. Santana (1969) - Santana

6. Progglådan Box B: Instrumentala, Experimentella, Urproggare samt Punk - Fläsket Brinner & Hörselmat

7. Fri Information - Hoola Bandoola Band

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You just got an old car and it doesn’t have Bluetooth. You can only buy seven cds and you can’t repeat an artist. What are you getting?

1. Disappear Here by Bad Suns

2. Mania by Fall Out Boy

3. (Rotten Apples) The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits

4. Intellectual Property by Waterparks

5. I Love You So F***ing Much by Glass Animals

6. Ricky Montgomery (self titled album)

7. Flyleaf (self titled album)

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Renaissance Suite David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London

Track 1: - 0:00 Hans Hassler: Lustgarden Intrada VI Intrada VII Track 2: - 2:55 Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore Bransle double de Poictou Bransle gay double Track 3: - 4:44 David Munrow Bagpipe solo I Bagpipe solo II Track 4: - 7:38 Tielmann Susato: Danceyre Basse danse: Dont vient cela Track 5: - 11:38 Anon., 16th c. O death rock me asleep Track 6: - 15:00 Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore Bransle simple Track 7: - 17:18 David Munrow The six days of Grenoble Track 8: - 19:12 Anon., Italy, 14th c. Tristan's Lament Track 9: - 23:50 David Munrow The Race Against Oneself Track 10: - 27:04 Giovanni Macque Consonanze Stravaganti Track 11: - 28:49 Pierre Phalèse: Premier livre de Danseries Basse galliarde Michael Praetorius: Terpischore Galliarde Track 12: - 31:52 Arcangelo Corelli, Op. 5, No 12 La folie d'Espagne Arcangelo Corelli: Division flúte

From the youtube channel of Colleen Dawson ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_8vK4CJavyeguj2g4V-RSQ  )

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Hans Kotter - Kochersperger Spanieler · The Early Music Consort Of London · David Munrow

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New Music from Faroese Master Sunleif Rasmussen with soloist Michala Petri

New Music from Faroese Master Sunleif Rasmussen with soloist Michala Petri

OUR 6.220674 Sunleif Rasmussen is the best known composer from the Faroe Islands which are about mid way between Iceland and Denmark. He turned 60 on March 19th. He is certainly lauded in his homeland but his works have demonstrated him to be an artist whose reputation can hardly be contained by a single country. His works favorably compare with the finest composers from all of the Nordic…

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oh yeah, we had one of those little rectangular cassette players with a record button and a built-in mic in the 80s, and we recorded stuff off the radio by putting them next to each other - we're really sad to have lost a tape of David Munrow doing a week of short radio shows for kids (The Pied Piper) on "outdoor music", folk music from round the world that's played or sung outdoors - amazing swedish songs for calling in cows

thinking back to the days of cassette transfers from LPs and how we bought a C120 cassette so we could fit all of Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians on one side of it, and spent half an hour doing syncing nonsense so one side of the LP sort of seamlessly continued into the second side as it's one piece that's just over an hour long (and on the LP they fade out at the end of side A and fade in on side B) - and our grandmother's little fridge had a faulty suppressor, so the cassette recording had crackles on it at certain points

and as soon as we were able to get the CD of it we did and have been listening to that ever since, but we still feel the absence of the fridge crackles in the exact points where they interacted with the music, and it's got to be something over 30 years now since we heard that tape but we were listening to it daily for nearly 20 years before that so yeah old friends