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In the Thread: Hildegard von Bingen on vinyl

Post Subject: RootsPosted by twogoodears on: 4/21/2011

Obsession is the purest form of craziness... and I feel me a scholar for the life about being obsessive for this or that.
Middle Age and Ancient Music are - to me - like Robert Johnson's blues and Rolling Stones vs. Romantic, classical music... a mutation, father and son, bottom and panties... enjoying both or ONLY one of the genders isn't right or wrong, per se... but they're linked and originating from human-kind DNA layering.
Sure a MUCH more romantic and historic, time-capsule-like aspect is part of my love and interest for Dufay, Machaut, von Bingen, Perotinus & co.
If anyone motivated enough is able to historically locate Beethoven's or Satie's or Delius' times, the above composers lived in "different" times... no TV, of course, BUT also no books... life was shorter, and time had a different counting; God was paramount, and the above mentioned geniuses were monks, Dom, priests or nuns... music wasn't "impressionist" but hinting to God and its beauties... also travels and cultural swapping were different - i.e. think about Crusades, arabic oud and western lute or monodic singing from Orthodox', Eastern traditions.
It's naive and sincere, untechnical and incredibly complex, everything is alien and friendly at same time vs. contemporary music... and listening to "this" kind of music is like looking at the dawn of culture, of the world like we know...
An immense pleasure.

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