Lee et al,
May we appreciate the scholarship and dedication of HIP musicians.
At the same time, music is meant to be enjoyed and it can be enjoyed with
modern sensibilities without adhering strictly to HIP guidelines. If we
did adhere strictly, how many women would be singing certain types of
music?
Susan Nace
susanna_co@j...
susanna_co@j...
Measure for Measure Renaissance Singers
(who acknowledge and respect HIP but does not limit our singing to HIP)
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:08:34 -0400 "Lee Morgan" <LMorgan923@t...>
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:08:34 -0400 "Lee Morgan" <LMorgan923@t...>
writes:
> I ran into something last night that I thought was
> interesting in light of
> the discussion we've been having here on historically informed
> performance
> practice and straight tone. My husband, who has this weird
> non-musician
> thing about medieval music, was cruising Napster and ran across a
> group
> called "The Mediaeval Baebes" (I love that name). It's an English
> group
> that ranges in size from 10-12 women, of whom, from their
> biographies, only
> one has any extensive formal musical training. It looked like most
> of them
> come from a rock and/or performance art background. I'm not sure
> how
> authentic their music is, but the titles I recognized (which were
> not many)
> were all medieval.
> While there are things about their recordings that I can
> quibble over -
> like really impure vowels - I found their vocal color more
> interesting than
> the academically pure straight tone gang. There was a freshness in
> their
> approach and a sense of spontaneity that I really liked. Usually
> when I
> hear a group doing that kind of music, I always see them standing in
> a very
> controlled grouping and not moving much and being very, very serious
> about
> the music. This group sounded like they were having fun.
> I've always had a sneaking suspicion that really early music
> was a good bit
> more fun than we were allowed to believe in freshman music history,
> and I
> found that in this group's performances. Now, if they can just get
> those
> vowels right...
>
> Lee Morgan
> Mezzo soprano
>
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