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'Court'eous Music (LLSP) by Mystified [Email]
Genre: Renaissance

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Though not part of the official "Lost Songs Project," the following submission is part of the "Long-Lost Songs Project. "

Of course, no recording techniques were available at the time for such "Court-eous" music, though very recently, in the humble kitchens of a very dilapidated manor in Warwickshire, the following crude notations were found scribbled on a greasy serviette stashed in the cook's cupboard. These were presented to the Society for the Presumptuous Preservation of Preposterous Early Music by Mr. Charles A. Mindjour, of Mindjour Manor in Warwickshire.

Certainly the music dates back to the Late Medieval/Early Renaissance period, somewhere between 1350 and 1450 A.D. It is supposed, due to the location of the unlikely 'manuscript,' that the music was assuredly composed by one of the servants of the manor who, in the course of their workaday life, fancied themselves something of a composer and longed to make a big impression upon the Court Music scene.

It is performed here by the Paltry Palace Players.

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The third movement... &mdash 11/30/07 - 07:53:06 PM
... reminds me of part of a "Gentle Giant" song (remember them? :0 )!

This could have been the intro to a "lost song" from THEIR last album.

Very nice, Cat

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yes! &mdash 12/02/07 - 11:54:38 AM
I remember Gentle Giant! How could I forget? YOU introduced me to their music :)

And what a lovely compliment, Al ...thank you :)

You're right...it could have been an intro to something of theirs.

I'm glad you listened and enjoyed this one, Al :)
Thank you!

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'Court'eous Music &mdash 11/30/07 - 07:54:52 PM
what a sweet elegant music is this ? ..I think
this is one of the most LLSP songs that realy
I m impressed in . wonderful just wonderful Cat !
the anonymous Machaut ? !!!

Love it !!

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Thanks, Feter :) &mdash 12/02/07 - 12:00:47 PM
I'm glad that you liked this!

I'm not really a student of Early Music so much--but I've listened to quite a bit as I studied Music History, so this is the remnant of that fading memory,lol.

Thanks again!

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Nicely Done &mdash 11/30/07 - 08:28:31 PM
Very renaissance feel with some of those more modern harmonies creeping in there :-)

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Modern harmonies?? &mdash 12/02/07 - 12:05:23 PM
Well...you know what they say? That the servant of Mindjour Manor was wayyy ahead of his time in his chord constructions, which is probably one reason why he never was very popular in his day ;)

But, seriously--thanks for dropping by for a listen, and taking the time to leave a comment.

This was a fun little challenge for me :)

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Even your words have great culture &mdash 11/30/07 - 08:47:13 PM
Your so well read, so articulated with culture. Your music styles are so varied but make no mistake, you always seem to take the higher ground!

Way to go mysty mist !

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Thank you, Tiler &mdash 12/02/07 - 12:08:32 PM
Glad you enjoyed this one :)

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nice &mdash 11/30/07 - 09:53:58 PM
food poisoning..perhaps a bit to rich?
sweet music.

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food poisoning... &mdash 12/02/07 - 12:29:59 PM
No refrigerators for left-overs!
(I couldn't resist a bit of humor, really)

Thanks for listening and for taking time to leave a comment here :)

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know what &mdash 11/30/07 - 11:54:01 PM
alimar kinda hit a mark with me...could be gentle giant. ..... or henry Viii greatest hits.......anyway...very nice and different...very nice!

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Are you sure you're not English? &mdash 12/01/07 - 04:14:36 AM
This is great stuff...you should be doing music BBC's The Tudors! I like the idea of the 'Long Lost Songs Project'...I will be attempting some Egyptian Reggae later!
Mindjour Manners m'lady!

Steve

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And now &mdash 12/01/07 - 09:26:48 AM
for something completely different...
Very cleverly done - sounds pretty authentic (I remember this stuff from my youth). Well done.
Cheers
Len



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Could be... &mdash 12/01/07 - 10:20:50 AM
...almost...an outtake from John Renbourn's 'Lady And The Unicorn' or 'Sir John A Lot of Merry England's Music Thyng and Ye Greene Knight'...

Really...

With some vocals, which you could certainly do, it would drop right into an Anonymous 4 recording...

So I'm gonna have to go with Molly Hatchet...

Ed

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Back to the Future! &mdash 12/01/07 - 12:45:05 PM
This is just so wonderful.I think I may have just scarred my leotard dancing around the kettle during playback.

Blessings,

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Ay, &mdash 12/01/07 - 04:29:55 PM
Makes me remember my youth when I played a small tombone-like instrument in a renaissance ensamble. This do seem to be even older than that music we played, but it's very nice to listen to.

And after looking up Paltry, I think ye may just want to change yer name, ladies and gents, this was great!

(Hm, Pompous wouldn't do, of course, but possibly Prolific or Praised or even Prakriti - though probably not - or Prancing? No, I've got it: The Precious Palace Players!)

Thanks for the treat!

/Henke

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Sweet melancholy! &mdash 12/01/07 - 04:48:43 PM
So nice. So Renaissance. So Mystified.....

Brilliant and poignant piece! Bravo!

Be well Cat!


Lethe (Song Of Er): http://www.macjams.com/song/37172

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the renaissance &mdash 12/01/07 - 06:33:30 PM
did they have 8 tracks or just vinyl back then !! just kidding, i know it was carved on disc made of wood. a very most excellent job
rj

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Long Lost... &mdash 12/01/07 - 06:55:10 PM
so pleased it was discovered. Steve's right - the BBC needs you!

An exceptional piece - beautifully done!

Peter

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hmmm... &mdash 12/01/07 - 08:28:39 PM
does this have anything to do with penguins?

nice song - i like it!

thanks

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no idea, but... &mdash 12/02/07 - 01:11:15 AM
beautiful. great track!

sons of hypnos

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Nice track &mdash 12/02/07 - 09:25:50 AM
very authentic, is it the music to Romeo and Juliet or was it done by Beckett. Really well done and I like this different sections to the whole track. Can imagine this music played in all the Renaissance royal courts throughout Europe.

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due &mdash 12/02/07 - 09:37:56 AM
to my complete ignorance of this genre, I will have to be content saying this is really beautiful. you said renaissance, so i know you're not aping some long lost prog band (although i could hear this as an intro on a number of Jethro Tull songs). You know this music well, i'm impressed fair maiden.

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Court Music scene &mdash 12/02/07 - 12:14:51 PM
...I wish that poor, unknown servant well, for surely this is a kind and gentle song which would find considerable favour. Verily, if that poor unknown servant were to step upon our decades he might find himself upon great stages of progressive rock arenas of such bounty that Jethro Tull would be compared frequently and with great cheer.



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just a guess...finally &mdash 12/02/07 - 12:21:35 PM
my wife helped me a bit of this one, but sounds a lot like the "lost companion song" to Greensleeves. thing is, all i could find on it's composer was that king henry VIII was supposed to have written it (but never proven). once again, beautiful tune though!

age

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lol &mdash 12/02/07 - 01:00:36 PM
Mindjour Manor and the Society..lol

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when we say lost... &mdash 12/02/07 - 01:53:17 PM
you really went for a lost track!

Really nice and sounds true. really could be placed in a soundtrack to a movie of King Arthur and this era.

this was a cool listen!

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Me Lady &mdash 12/02/07 - 05:57:38 PM
did well to resuscitate this lovely manuscript; takes me back to my youth LOL. It really is calming to listen to and beautifully played, regards M

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Your text reminds me &mdash 12/02/07 - 08:00:51 PM
of something that Prof. Peter Schickele might have written - takes me back to my mis-spent youth listening to faux madrigals and such ('running knows, running knows,etc.....You had to be there). Humour aside, the tunes are lovely and certainly reminiscent of the period (or at least how we thought it sounded back then :o) )
Thanks, and keep well!
Doug

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Captured &mdash 12/03/07 - 06:41:54 PM
A piece of the past, captured and made new. This is a legit lost song. The performance and production sound great. I find myself wanting to get up and dance!

Thanks
Bill

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we loved this in my house.. &mdash 12/04/07 - 03:47:05 PM
thank you so much xoxo

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Palace players &mdash 12/04/07 - 06:49:55 PM
perform perfectly. Great choice of instrumentation, and light deft hand in the performance. This would have been on the courts top forty. great job

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Out of my league &mdash 12/06/07 - 12:16:13 AM
to even fathom a guess (unless it's a very cleverly disguised Metallica tune, heehee)

A wonderful tune and will be curious to find out who the "lost song" is from.

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Wow &mdash 12/06/07 - 06:05:41 PM
This would be totally fitting for some renaissance scenery in a movie. Really excellent, Cat!

Not sure what album it's from... maybe "Mincemeat Food Poisoning".

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'Court'eous Music &mdash 12/07/07 - 08:26:35 AM
I'm not even going to pretend I have some vague idea what this is - being the troglodyte I am. All I know is it is beautiful through and through.

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Coulda sworn I posted here a long time ago &mdash 12/07/07 - 10:20:28 AM
but I must gave been too mystified to hit the post button. This is a brilliant piece of music - though I couldn't hazard a guess as to who it is. I have a Deutsche Grammophone record of medieval masque music that I used to play all the time. Thanks for posting.
I just figured it out! It's the lost soundtrack to Spamalot performed by The Ruttles unplugged.

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Er ... &mdash 12/07/07 - 01:51:37 PM
Nope not a clue ... it's outside my knowledge and experience.

It's nice though!

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3, 2, 1... Andes off! &mdash 12/19/07 - 08:07:42 AM
Funny, the first half, if you sped it up a bit, and replaced the recorder with pan pipes, would sound exactly like some Bolivian/Peruvian folk music (which further illustrates my theory that all countries' folk music sounds strangely similar). Good second section, very Renaissance-sounding, and the final section is very humorous, with the players now being quite full of mead, and completely lost to any kind of rhythm.

I love your wordplay in the description, of course. And I've BEEN to Warwick castle! Anyway, very well-captured, you have a good Renais-sense.

ttfn,
Drakonis

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I love it... &mdash 01/18/08 - 05:54:36 AM
Another stunning one from you, Mysti - and you know how much I love medieval and rennaisance music! :D

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Utterly charming &mdash 02/09/08 - 08:48:45 AM
Really lovely piece you have here. A bit like a suite of various movements?

The lute occasionally produces some clicking sounds and there are some places where two notes follow really closely together. Quantization problem?

Hey, nice polyphony too! Not just playing in thirds. That would have been too easy. And probably unidiomatic.

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