You just need a "Heart's Delight" bodice. Guaranteed cleavage! Only works if you don't have to sing, tho'...
Felicia. On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Patricia Lipscomb wrote: > Re: the question of "making fun" of early music - Surely there is > also a distinction between "making fun of" something and performing > a light-hearted spoof up of something in the best tradition of > performers such as jesters, who did indeed make buffoons of > themselves, as did pranksters, both real and imaginary, such as the > probably apocryphal Till Eulenspiegel (chronicled in Richard > Strauss' Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Till Eulenspiegel's > Merry Pranks) of German folk tales, which date back to Medieval > days. Granted, Till, even in his buffoonery, had lofty aims, i.e., > holding up a mirror (hmmm - Spiegel) to the vices and weaknesses of > the powerful and privileged (Simon, please correct me if I am > getting some of this wrong), and one could argue that playful > performances do not serve this kind of social function. BUt the > point is that spoofing has a long and honorable history that dates > back at least as far as the actual Middle Ages and is an entirely > appropriate part of light-hearted folk festivals. > > BTW, Felicia, your reference to cleavage is right on. Years ago, > when I had cleavage that anyone might have cared about (as opposed > to now - going to be 62 next month) I worked as an alehouse wench > at Ren Faire. The mistress of the alehouse felt that we were not > getting enough tips so she walked over to me and yanked my bodice > down about 3 more inches of inches, and - with all the "bodice > tipping" - sure enough, that old tip bucket started filling right up. > > Trish > > > > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
