Sort of OT: Medieval Babes

Poststructural Pub
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Just a note while I listen to one of my favorite albums these days: The Rose. The artists are collectively known as “Medieval Babes.”

My favorite track: “Dringo Bell.” The words are…uh…surprising. :smiling_imp:

–James

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There was an interesting act at the MD Renaissance Fest–a trio of chanteuses who billed themselves as “The O’Danny Girls.” Interesting.

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The Medieval Baebes were at the RennFest year before last. I was very impressed with their recorder playing, not at all taken with their singing.

And, James, if you want “surprising” lyrics, you might want to try the Baltimore Consort’s “The art of the bawdy song.”

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If you like medieval vocal music, check out the following:

Hillard Ensemble - Perotin

Anonymous 4 - pretty much anything (Although Lily & Lamb is my fave)

Accept no substitutes!!!

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If you like medieval vocal music, check out the following:

Hillard Ensemble - Perotin

Anonymous 4 - pretty much anything (Although Lily & Lamb is my fave)

Accept no substitutes!!!

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I love the Mediæval Bæbes (you gotta get those æ’s in there to look all authentik)!
I saw them at the MD renn faire in 2001, and I thought they sang excellently.
One song, “Ah Si Mon Moine” was a Middle French song about talking a monk
out of his vow of celibacy…

I haven’t gotten The Rose yet, but I just looked up the lyrics to “Dringo Bell”…
That situation is straight out of Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale”! Awesome.

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Now you’re talking. Great stuff - hard core. :slight_smile:

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I caught the O Danny Girls Emm. The tune about the Cuckoos nest is still stuck in my head.

Ron

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I bought a fabulous CD recently for five quid (a budget release on the Naxos label) of works by Pérotin and Léonin performed by Tonus Peregrinus. For real sex-on-legs medieval music try Canticles of Ecstasy by Hildegard von Bingen, performed by Sequentia. If you want to hear medieval music that sounds uncannily like folk song try Cantigas de Amigo, a collection of Spanish music which includes the incredible seven cantigas by Martin Codax, sung and played by the Ensemble Alcatraz with Kitka women’s vocal ensemble. All superb and the last one in particular will blow your mind whatever your taste in music, I promise!

Steve