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From: Derrick Everett
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:00
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:00
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On Sun, 18 May 2003 22:11:31 -0700, http://CBC.am/home.htm {Radio Canada}
wrote:
> The Original "Ring" in (old) Icelandic, from the Saga text done with
> replica middle ages instruments -- has it been performed in North
> America?
>
> Seattle's Benaroya Hall has adiquate acoustics, but some silent movie
> palaces in the UK, US , NZ, Australia could work for a Ring performance
> on tour.
I believe that you are referring to the "reconstruction" of the Poetic
Edda which was issued as a recording a few years ago. The group who made
this recording tried to find a style of performance for the poems, or
songs, of the Edda such as might have been used in medieval Iceland. They
based their "reconstruction" on sources like Icelandic folk-melodies and
Norwegian fiddle music. The only certainty about the project is that,
whatever medieval performances of the Edda songs were like, they were not
like this reconstruction.
--
Derrick Everett (deverett at c2i.net)
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