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Wedding, dancing, and music geekery
Sep. 22nd, 2013 10:06 pmChris and Lee's wedding on Saturday. Much is being said elsewhere, and pics are all over their FB pages. From my PoV, I got to catch up with a lot of old friends I haven't seen for years, to wear an ACW dress I haven't tried on for years (not only can I get into it, its a little loose!), and to dance in the first one of the ceilidh. The place was full of re-enactors, and we probably had costumes spread over a thousand years or so.
The bit I wanted to geek about, though, was the music for the wedding service. They'd got a group called Stella Splendens. all friends of ours, who (to quote their FB page) "are six musicians bringing early music to life. We play music from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries often in splendid period costumes and on beautiful period instruments."
They played, and they sang, and I acquired acute Harp Envy at the sight and sound of the Gothic Harp (complete with brays)
(I got to play with it later!) and wanted a better look at what seemed to be a Rackett.
And then it was time for the last piece, as the bride and groom exited. The Rackett came out again, as did the drum, and something BIG was assembled - like a Crumhorn, but bigger. A quick count-in, and they started to play....... no? It can't really be....? It was, and four bars in, the congregation burst into applause, The Imperial March from Star Wars on Baroque Rackett, Extended bass crumhorn, drum and temple bells.
The bit I wanted to geek about, though, was the music for the wedding service. They'd got a group called Stella Splendens. all friends of ours, who (to quote their FB page) "are six musicians bringing early music to life. We play music from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries often in splendid period costumes and on beautiful period instruments."
They played, and they sang, and I acquired acute Harp Envy at the sight and sound of the Gothic Harp (complete with brays)
(I got to play with it later!) and wanted a better look at what seemed to be a Rackett.And then it was time for the last piece, as the bride and groom exited. The Rackett came out again, as did the drum, and something BIG was assembled - like a Crumhorn, but bigger. A quick count-in, and they started to play....... no? It can't really be....? It was, and four bars in, the congregation burst into applause, The Imperial March from Star Wars on Baroque Rackett, Extended bass crumhorn, drum and temple bells.