Hello, I would like remind you that the SCA (www.sca.org) is the "Society for Creative Anachronism", not for true representation of the past.
In the germanspeaking countries its quite established to distinguish between music for the medieval fair and music for the early music concert. For early music concert it usually gets presented as "Frühe Musik" (= early music) or as "Musik des 13. Jahrhunderts" (= 13th century music) or similar. The terms "Mittelalter" (= Middle Ages) or "mittelalterlich" ( = medieval) practically are used for the music for the medieval fairs only. They are seen as two independent genres. One that presents a "historically informed" "true-to-scale representation" and one that handles fair like in "fairy tale". A sword fighting group here in Austria prints "The medieval times as they should have been" :-) on their flyer - its "Historically inspired Entertainment" (© Mike Gartner). Arguing about this entertainment in terms of historical correctness would be as if one would treat the film "Ben Hur" as realistic presentation of the roman antiquity. Kind regards, Simon Wascher -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
