The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments

If any of you have seen my ethnomusicology profile, you know that this puts me in my happy place. Now I have to go listen to the wonderful David Munrow and the Early Music Consort.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27205752

Article on David Munrow

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9285826/David-Munrow-Tragic-genius-who-brought-early-music-to-the-masses.html

I want to play all of these.  All at the same time.  On Game of Thrones.  A hurdy gurdy would definitely be my weapon of choice.

This is David Munrow and the Early Music Consort's interpretation of the music of the medieval Trouveres, a class of poet minstrel who travelled throughout the courts of Europe to sing songs of love and romance from the 12th to 14th centuries.  Before then most music was sung in cathedrals in motet or chant, but the Trouveres brought a high class of minstrelsy to the continent that was first to become even more ornate during the Renaissance and develop into the Classical tradition at its height.

And here are the Early Music Consort's grandiose Renaissance Dances.

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