Hmm. Sounds a bit too modern in its tuning. Shouldnāt the fifths at least be a bit sharper?
The headline makes it sound like there was a big discovery, but there wasnāt. A lot of hard work and interpretation, but other scholars have done the same. We still canāt read this music.
Fun fact: this type of notation is the basis for shape note (Sacred Harp) singing prevalent in Appalachian tradition.
Oh man I love mountain music so much!
Why would the fifths be sharper? Then you get very audible ābeatsā. Thirds, fourths, sevenths, etc are all debatable (this was well before well tempered, equal tempered, or stretched), but octaves and fifths areā¦ And @PatRx2 likely knows the exceptions to this ruleā¦ Fixed and agreed upon.
The tune was fantastically played.
There is nothing to read. You start with the sixteenth century, and slowly trace musician to teacher backwards. This describes a tradition, not a formula. So you trace the tradition.
āThis video has been taken down due to a copyright claim by Knights of the Roundtable, LLC.ā
I heard theyāve employed Merlin as their lawyer because if his uncanny ability to sniff out infringement throughout time.
The music is just a cover for their plans to dig a tunnel connecting to the casino vault.
Depends. There was written polyphonic music back to LĆ©onin. Actually, Guido dāArezzo had added staff lines to notation in the previous century (i.e., in the early 11th century), which was a necessary precondition of polyphony. This would have applied less to popular music, though, where oral traditions would have held sway. Stillā¦ Sumer is icumen in.
Temperament would likely have been Pythagorean just intonation, so @LemoUtanās point is taken - we donāt use perfect fifths in meantone or well-tempered tunings. Theyāre all slightly flat to remove the comma and allow re-entrancy in the cycle of fifths. Still, itās debatable that most people would notice the fifths as sharp. Our fifths have a very slow beat; just fifths have none.
I wish I could find a shape-note group around here.
Of all the days for @japhroaig to get musically pwned.
Whereās Jethro Tull when you need them?
Well, Martin Barre has retired. Mind you, Tull has played often enough with the original line-up in recent years, which means Mick Abrahams on guitar, so itās all good.
Edit: Oops. Glenn Cornick died a couple of years ago, so not-so-original line-up these days.
That this was well-before well-tempered etc is exactly my point. The āmodernā fifth is 1.4142ā¦ (square root of two) times the frequency of the tonic because of such well-temperedness. The ancient fifth, the pythagorean one, was in the ratio 3 to 2, i.e. it would have sounded sharper.
iāll bet you my bottom dollar that while i agree with your math, the artists still would have flattened them.
No dispute there!
Iāll take that bet.
Which artists? The medieval ones, or the modern ones performing the recreation?
