How to Sound Medieval with Emily Askew

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How to play in an authentically medieval style, with medieval/folk musician Emily Askew!
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In this video I chat to the fantastic Emily Askew about all things medieval. including how to get that medieval sound with ornaments and articulation, approaches to arranging such as drones, organum and contrary motion, and how the ancient sources coupled with folk music today can inform our playing. And most of all - why it's important to use your own creativity and have fun!
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01:30 Introducing Emily
02:15 How medieval and folk music are similar
03:21 The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
05:07 How to tackle a piece of medieval music
07:10 Historically informed performance practice vs. your own style
08:21 What NOT to do?
09:27 Ornaments
13:54 Sound and vibrato
15:13 Double strings and flutes
16:05 Medieval harmony
17:44 Arranging [including drones, organum, contrary motion and heterophony]
22:40 Emily's online course on medieval music!
23:43 Where to find more music
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@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to use my code SARAH21 for 2 months free at Primephonic, THE high quality classical music streaming service! To redeem the code click on the link: bit.ly/PrimephonicVC Primephonic is THE high quality classical music streaming service - a huge choice of fabulous music, yet easy to navigate with specially curated playlists, podcasts, articles, interviews with artists and more. Don't forget to check out my Medieval playlist I put together specially for this video, and Primephonic's own 'Classical Encounters' podcast with episodes on medieval music! Enjoy!

@fancydeer 3 жыл бұрын

Me during practice today: they're not MISTAKES they're medieval ~*oRnImEnTs*~ MOM

@GeraldM_inNC Жыл бұрын

About 1980 I purchased an alto for 300 pounds at the Early Music Shop in London. In 1995 I lost it during a move. I've never recovered from that broken heart!

@alexhb12333 3 жыл бұрын

Love Emily's phrasing looking at the small amount of historical context as "possibilities" instead of limitations. Doing the best to recreate the sound of the time with a mix of the information we have and modern day creativity!

@AshleyPaul 3 жыл бұрын

How to pronounce Medieval like Sarah pronounced "Medieval" should be its own video because it's amazing.

@peterlustig8021 3 жыл бұрын

Medi-evil yayayaya dangerous tunes here

@RoxannSouci 3 жыл бұрын

True! 🤣

@federicoarioli5849 3 жыл бұрын

I actually love your channel, even if I cannot play recorder. I hope this channel will improve in numbers bc you deserves it

@dougarnold7955 3 жыл бұрын

Same here! 👍

@christophertsiliacos8958 3 жыл бұрын

Try it. You'll like it. In fact, you'll love it! A plastic soprano recorder is not only very inexpensive, but it's a fun instrument to play. 👌 😉 ♫

@honeychurchgipsy6 3 жыл бұрын

@@christophertsiliacos8958 - agreed - I have a cheap Aulos and it's great - I have a nice Pallisander Moeck Rottenburgh too but it requires much more precision to play the high notes well!! You can get the Aulos Haka soprano pretty cheap too

@christophertsiliacos8958 3 жыл бұрын

@@honeychurchgipsy6 👍 😊

@KKIcons Жыл бұрын

She has enough free lessons on YT to learn to play tunes, which is pretty fun. I loved her easy playalongs.

@abcan593 Жыл бұрын

the fact that this video exists restores my love in the internet

@geekbynight 3 жыл бұрын

OMG! I just watched Emily yesterday and have been medievalling all day!

@mccypr 3 жыл бұрын

Great info! Connecting Medieval and modern Folk music (primarily English Folk music) is something that I’m very interested in. Thanks! 🌞😎🎻

@karenarnett5167 3 жыл бұрын

Stylin' overalls!

@austinhackney3906 Жыл бұрын

This was fascinating and packed with useful information and ideas-- thank you both. And how infectious are Emily's smile and laughter? I found myself just beaming all the way through this; Emily is like joyfulness in person! 😄🏳‍🌈

@oriellemoyenageenmusique5198 3 жыл бұрын

What Emily says about drones and all is very interesting and I really like her rendition of the cantiga.

@AlexandreOliveira1974 3 жыл бұрын

The introductory note for the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat is just amazing lol! I love medieval 'reconstructed' music, although I cannot play. But I can sing! I love the Cantigas de Santa Maria, I'd love to find an Ensemble or something like that here in Brasil. Cheers from Sao Paulo!

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Bom dia! There’s lots of recorder playing in Sao Paulo- do you know Renata Pereira and Gustavo di Franciso? They play together in Quinta Essentia!

@stephielulu9096 3 жыл бұрын

Llibre Vermell is absolutly beautiful!💖🎶 I found it last year & listen to it all the time 😊

@jimandmarypowell9783 Жыл бұрын

True, a lot of 'Celtic' style ornaments give music a medieval feel.

@kimhughes9732 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and I apologize humbly for misspelling your name! Believe it or not, until I read your reply I didn’t know that if you tap the title of a KZfaq video, you get a description of the video contents (assuming the person posting it put one there). I’m fairly new to KZfaq channels, and still have much to learn. For kicks, I did try searching on your name (correctly spelled) plus “playlist“ at Primephonic, but it only brought up your Baroque playlist. Also tried “Team Recorder” plus “playlist” and got the same result. So the link in the video description is the best way to go. Many thanks for your patience, Kim

@MrLuridan 3 жыл бұрын

I love her work with her sister, the English folk stuff. Awesome.

@patrickdaly5068 6 ай бұрын

I haven't had a chance to finish watching your video yet (I'm 5 minutes in and have to come back later to finish), but I love both medieval & folk music, and I'm loving the history lesson here. Thank you!

@Ratwoman5000 2 жыл бұрын

Just in time for the book of medieval dances I've ordered ! 😃 This is my FAVOURITE recorder era/genre btw... 🤩 Edit: The dances arrived today from EMS ! 🥳

@ironkiko 3 жыл бұрын

This was very fun, enjoyable and informative.

@christophertsiliacos8958 3 жыл бұрын

That's because we have Professor Sarah at the lectern 👍 😉 🎶🎵

@Michajeru 3 жыл бұрын

Sarah I love your channel. So interesting, informative, musically beautiful and thoroughly good.

@kimhughes9732 3 жыл бұрын

For anyone else who was unable to find the medieval playlist referred to in this video, the good folks at Primephonic tracked it down for me (took them three tries, but they found it, which was more than I managed to do). “Here you have the playlist you were looking for: play.primephonic.com/playlist/18de5591-2b9f-4b3a-b3f5-ba601a235715. “ It’s listed under Team Recorder, not Sarah Jeffrey. Maybe I should’ve figured that out, but sadly I didn’t.

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kim, thanks for flagging this up! The link to the playlist is right there in the video description, second paragraph- is it showing up for you? When searching on Primephonic you might have to check the spelling of my name - it’s Jeffery, not Jeffrey. Maybe that’s why. Great that the Primephonic folks could help you though, they are super helpful. I hope you enjoy listening!

@SastaTansenOP 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video. I learnt so much bout' Mediaeval music. ❤️ I'd love to see the next video to this series... I am guessing it's gonna be "How to sound like the Renaissance period." IDK I am actually a Indian Classical Musician, Not very fond of the west... 😅

@aprilmunday1152 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Although I'm a baroque girl at heart where the recorder is concerned, I love medieval music.

@malahamavet 3 жыл бұрын

that's exactly something I all ways wanted to know since I started playing the recorder

@rochmel1409 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Brilliant! Thanks to you and Emily for a thrilling and totally engrossing half an hour. For me its the first step on a journey. Who knows where it will end?

@nateschultz8973 Жыл бұрын

Medieval romance song: "There were two people. Describe how they met for one verse. Now blather on for 9-20 verses about the horrible things the happened around them, often their own doing. Sometimes it was by other people in response to them being horrible people. Have a verse about how each of them died. Could be two if you're still feeling it when writing. Include a reference to a lover's knot growing up out of their tomb so you can really sell that this is romantic and heartwarming."

@Grendelcynn 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I play several medieval instruments including the medieval bagpipes, medieval bagpipes have identical fingering to recorder fingering so if you can play the medieval bagpipes you can pick up a recorder and almost immediately play it. So like Emily I came to the same playing style and doing most ornamentation with my fingers not tongue. Also I agree the use of drones is very medieval, to accompany a recorder this can be done with stringed instruments and also the frame drum is an excellent droning drum. Another technique not mention here is medieval instruments tended to be much lower in tone than modern ones, so playing much lower is medieval.

@hunithmusic 3 жыл бұрын

How would you play ornamentation with your tongue? Or do you mean articulation?

@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns 3 жыл бұрын

@@hunithmusic On a bagpipe you have a constant stream of air so you lift and place your fingers to create gaps in the music, these go from very simply raising one finger while playing a note, to extremely complex combinations of five or six finger lifts on one note. Some of the more simple ornamentation can be done with the tongue on the recorder.

@hunithmusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns I know how a bagpipe works, in fact I used to play medieval bagpipe myself, but what you describe as "gaps in the music" wouldn't be called "ornamentation" on the recorder but articulation. We recorder players do ornamentation with our fingers.

@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns 3 жыл бұрын

@@hunithmusic So your whole point is nothing more than semantics . Also I've never heard fluttertonguel called articulation.

@hunithmusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns Where did I mention fluttertongue? And, being a modern playing technique, what does it have to do with either ornamentation or articulation? And no, it's not just semantics. Ornamentation and articulation are distinctly different things.

@carlosmartinezgarcia9213 3 жыл бұрын

Muy interesante. Sería genial una entrevista con Pedro Memelsdorff y si fuera con subtítulos en español más aún.

@JoshPlotner 3 жыл бұрын

If you put that ashes and the flames quote on a t-shirt I'd totally buy it

@Symphing12 3 жыл бұрын

I always love these videos! And thank you for hooking me onto Primephonic back over the summer!

@michaelayers4174 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent, and i think this would be useful in playing music of any period in any style.

@surfdigby 3 жыл бұрын

That's a really cool looking lamp behind you.

@honeychurchgipsy6 3 жыл бұрын

This was great - very informative - I think I met Emily's dad once at a folk song club in Chichester - he sang a trad song called The Mermaid without accompaniment and afterwards we had a chat about Emily Portman's album The Glamoury (still one of my favourite folk albums)

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Ohh how lovely!

@honeychurchgipsy6 3 жыл бұрын

@@Team_Recorder - yes, he was a lovely man and sang very well: unlike myself who forgot the words half way through my rendition of Limbo (after hearing it sung by Eliza Carthy on Anglicana I fell in love with the melody) due to nerves - lol!!!

@emilsonlim8240 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Sarah thank you very much for changing my life for the better ":)!!! Because of you and your channel. I think outside the box ":)!!!I love the recorder and the recorder community. This episode of medieval music is just what I need. Thank you thank you so much. ')!!!I hope you family and friends are all safe and well from the current situation. Tah.

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Ah lovely to hear! 😘

@nancydevlin65 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm only entering into the medieval music 'scene', as it were, with the recorder mainly, and yes, sorry very much, but adapted TAB so I can pick things on the guitar...... I've been in the living history reenactment for the last 23 years and getting rather fed up with the archeaological and authenticity police that want everything proven and set in stone, more or less! I've already encountered critics on the musical front, while like you girls already say, like myself, that very little IS known, especially if it was the lower classes, critics along the lines of 'you can't play that on that instrument, it was written for.....' or 'that instrument isn't appropriate for that place'...... Really strict! So yeah, deep breaths and plough on regardless. Influences did flow over the lands, people did travel, instruments weren't mass-produced to be all the same everywhere, stuff like that....... I'll get there! Again, thank you!

@maldoc6517 3 жыл бұрын

This was fascinating! Thanks so much Sarah and Emily!

@alenkavenx2056 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, my, Sarah your channel has grown sooooo much!!!

@espeesperanza Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this beautiful video!! I learned a lot ❤️

@isanewday 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting . . .

@masterchief586 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to play the Great Highland Bagpipes. I have a set, but need the bag changed for a new one.

@a.p.1279 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Really interesting (I like the idea of series about styles of music), and it made me want to listen to more medieval music (my first intrument is the cello, so, for playing, I'm thinking about transposing vocal music.) My recorder skills are not sufficient at all for this kind of project : I've had my recorder (a lovely Yamaha alto) for about a week. I've picked it up thanks to you, you give us so much material (and motivation), I decided I wanted this kind of fun in my life. On this subject : can you do a tutorial for an easy piece, for alto recorder?

@wendynoble6545 3 жыл бұрын

I was just talking to my teacher about trying some medieval music!

@natalielebert1631 3 жыл бұрын

Alchemy is so great! Begone Dull Care is my pandemic anthem!

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️

@stavroskariotis4692 3 жыл бұрын

I love your hair 😍

@phileo_ss 3 жыл бұрын

In other words, how to sound like what the player believes is authentically medieval, because not enough documentation as survived. Thanks for the informative content.

@Paula-133 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful ideas!!!!! ❤️

@kennethcheng189 3 жыл бұрын

omg the intro this time is hilarious:)

@kimhughes9732 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sarah, this is such a great channel! I’m a Primephonic member, but I can’t find the medieval playlist you referred to. Could you give us a specific name to search on, please? Thank you!

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kim, the link is in my video description!

@millennial8441 3 жыл бұрын

Askew does nearly the same thing I do when I need some baroque inspiration. In my case, I look for baroque buldings, palaces and another things involving baroque sculptures. Baroque sources coming from a non-musical as main source. Almost the great sculptures from the baroque era presents irregular lines and notions of non-stable things. Pay attention to "The ectasis of Saint Terese" by Bernini. All in this marble sculpture is OPERA, drama, violent constrasts, unquiet lines. There is a explicit sexual connotation here: an angel craves a golden sward inside Terese's heart (really the heart?) and she is almost dead (and orgasm or a divine "extase"?). That is baroque and is valuable issue for the baroque music. it is important to point out that what I wrote is more suitable for Italian baroque. But the procedure of look for scullptures and architecture remains the same for the French baroque but looking for furniture and paiting.

@susannekalejaiye4351 3 жыл бұрын

super!

@pedrohbrinck 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Sarah, good to see a new video. Hope you're well and safe. I sent you a DM. I'd love to see a video on difference between models such as bressan, denners, rottenburghs, so on... and what they are best suited for. I also made a comment on the reading you shared today. I'd love to talk about it with you.

@rafnaegels8913 3 жыл бұрын

Great! I love Medieval sounding music.

@christophertsiliacos8958 3 жыл бұрын

Hey everybody, it’s Sarah! Hi Sarah! 👋 😊

@shoshannafachima1306 3 жыл бұрын

I find that gymels,meaning terza seems to allude to the name of the third hebrew letters name which is the gymel and has the gematrya numerical value of three.in ancient hebraic music their also were terzas and fifths(quinta)

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that’a fascinating! Thanks for sharing!

@shoshannafachima1306 3 жыл бұрын

@@Team_Recorder you're very welcome 😊

@eajun1787 3 жыл бұрын

YEAHHHHHH!

@patrickchambers5999 3 жыл бұрын

When your camera ran out of battery, did you finally catch up to it or did it get away?

@herzog1tina 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Sarah. I already have Primephonic after listening to you Video on Baroque Music. I can not find your playlist for this video though. Can you help and send the name of the playlist?

@kimhughes9732 3 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem, cannot find the playlist referred to. I’d really love to hear it! Please, does anyone know the name?

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Link in the video description, second paragraph! Hope you enjoy listening 😊

@Sombre____ 2 жыл бұрын

To sound medieval, get an hurdy gurdy and play in Minor A.

@jayawilder3835 10 ай бұрын

Oh, Emily! Couldn't you have played snippets of the actual music you mention, for those of us that are listeners rather than players? Most laymen don't know what Organum is, but many would recognize an example as something that we've always loved but didn't know why. I was asked in a teenage job interview why I love mediaeval music, and didn't have the education to answer. 50 years on that still breaks my heart. Nowadays I know that, in Organum, they are "harmonising in 3rds and 5ths", I recognize the lovely sound, but I still don't know what is actually happening. I lack the musical knowledge and vocabulary. Emily, if you offered an online course in "What's actually going on here, for musical innocents" I would buy it.

@sockpuppetsusa 2 жыл бұрын

Hi I used to be Ava hamms student on KZfaq but I just now found u guys. Are hobby lobby recorders good to use or are they cheap imitations are those recorders you buy at hobby lobby good recorders to play cause I just bought 2 recorders for 74 cents at hobby lobby to teach her so are hobby lobby recorders good recorders

@stefansandbergsweden 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Sarah, I'm currently learning the tin whistle and I'm very interested in medieval music. Could I ask if you have any recommendation on what key I should buy if I only can afford one low whistle and my main objective is to play medieval sounding music? 🙏 Your best, Stefan

@ninjaaron 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone know where to get medieval melodies written down? What are some good books?

@thebigloc1 3 жыл бұрын

This week and last I never got notification of your video. I have the bell icon clicked.

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Oh strange! Maybe re-click? KZfaq is a mystery...

@pandoramurals7058 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Sarah can you recommend actual book of medieval music sheets I can purchase and is there an electronic accompaniment I can purchase to have background music ie soft drumming or harp?? I have no idea but love being an amateur recorder player! Thanks so much from Australia 🇦🇺

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm thatMa a very good question! Not that I know of for medieval music, but you have the Renaissance Recorder anthologies published by Schott

@MrMarcvus 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting video! However, how can one make a generalisation from one manuscript? Moreover, every European Country has always had different styles of folk music present in it - often differing from region to region! Is it possible to guarantee that there is an unbroken chain of transition in relation to folk music - especially since the arrival of the modern age and the loss of culture due to the fact that we do not sing at home- as was done before the arrival of recorded music and film? Thank you again for the video!

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Those are good points! So Emily isn’t generalising from one manuscript- she’s speaking from many years of study and experience, highlighting one example so it’s easier for a new audience to follow. The task of fitting 1000 years of music history into a 25 min video is an impossible one, but we’ve chosen some ideas that can be helpful starting points for thise getting into Medieval music- places to look further. And yes every region (both now and in the medieval era) has its own musical traditions- we had a whole conversation about how to incorporate those but it didn’t make the cut!

@MrMarcvus 3 жыл бұрын

@@Team_Recorder Thank you for responding to my comment! Please do not think I did not value and enjoy the video! These were simply questions I had! I agree it would be impossible to condense a 1000 year of performance into one short video. Thank you again.

@MinstrelKrampf 3 жыл бұрын

Plagiarism of popular and folk music tunes by churches has a fairly long and continuous history right up to today. Modern hymnals (much to my dismay, as a lover of classical and romantic music) are full of appropriated Dvorak, Smetna, Beethoven, Sibelius, and Holst, with religious lyrics substituted for the originals, or added to instrumental music.

@wilhelmorangenbaum163 3 жыл бұрын

.There's no such a think as "plagiarism" went it comes to medieval times, practically all tunes were anonymously written so there's no autor to who one can ascribe these melodies to, in fact, if many of those tunes still exists is because there were notated, so without "Church Plagiarism" many of those tunes would have end up in oblivion. Now that you're talking about Dvorak and Smetana, Sibelius and Holst, applying the rethoric you're using you can say that those composers also "appropriated" (this term is really stupid) tunes of folk music in the various works they wrote based on them. Not that I think Churchs need to "appropriated" Classical Music, I agreed with Pius X when it comes that the Catholic Church should put Gregorian Chant and Palestrina-influenced polyphony as the main body of music the Church should use. Other denominations should do their own thing.

@ganikus8565 3 жыл бұрын

Please where to buy this kind of medieval recorder ?

@DragonForce1393 3 жыл бұрын

I have a hard time understanding what she says at 7:30 . Can someone transcribe it for me please?

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

You can turn on the captions - click on 'English' (not the automatic version) and that's my updated transcription! She says "are we worshipping the ashes, or are we keeping the flames alive"

@DragonForce1393 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, that's a feature I don't often use so I tend to forget about it sorry. Thank you very much

@donbobskiy 3 жыл бұрын

Alas... Primephonic doesn't work in Russia :(

@DovalinaO 3 жыл бұрын

Such handsome lower 3rds and graphics @_@!

@Team_Recorder 3 жыл бұрын

Well thank youuu I got final cut prooooo 😌

@shoebox5869 3 жыл бұрын

New camera?

@Novemben 3 жыл бұрын

Was Emily playing a Ganassi recorder?

@stephielulu9096 3 жыл бұрын

It looked like a Mollenhauer Dream recorder, but not sure

@LobkeSprenkeling 3 жыл бұрын

It’s actually a Ganassi recorder by Monika Musch.

@slimagedah8583 3 жыл бұрын

Am thinking, what I call this kind of video????🙄😶🤔🤔🤔

@eemoot 3 жыл бұрын

Wassup Sarah? How's life going?

@MrStevenlynch Жыл бұрын

How do you know that medieval people sounded like that or are you just playing in some trite modern concept of olden days, like people who read Saxon books in some old accent that modern society has just made up as a short hand to show, look I'm a Viking. You don't think that if some 1000 year old person was revived would say the equivalent of -wtf!