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In a similar vein, here is a performance of Beowulf in Old English accompanied by music from an Anglo-Saxon lyre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ ht
by leornere 2y ago
In a similar vein, here is a performance of Beowulf in Old English accompanied by music from an Anglo-Saxon lyre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcIK_8f7oQ
Although I don't know how much of the performance style is reconstructed.
And that pipe music was fantastic. Reminds me a lot of the style of Colin Stetson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-EsJpkG9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-EsJpkG9o
- GeoAtreides 2y agoAnd here's part of the epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs
- ddmf 2y agoThanks for the Beowulf link! The pipe music instantly reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616PssEzrqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616PssEzrqo
- leoc 2y agoA.Z. Foreman does reconstructions in a terrifyingly wide variety of languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H10k4Dps-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H10k4Dps-s , including Early Modern English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiq6482XPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiq6482XPE . Ioannis Stratakis at Podium-Arts https://ancientgreek.eu/ https://ancientgreek.eu/ mostly records in reconstructed Classical Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbyr6ah0h8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbyr6ah0h8 .
- ein0p 2y agoThere are a number of channels on YouTube which read old English texts in the actual Old English, the way they’d be read at the time. For some reason I enjoy this a lot. Could be because I like to track down the etymology of words, and understand why the language is the way it is, rather than just accept it in its current state. I feel like this helps me to better connect with the deeper meaning of the words and “feel” of the the language. GPT4 is pretty great at etymology btw.