Gonna ramble and rant for a bit, don't mind me
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So for choir our teacher gives us an assignment each week to bring a song that meets a random specification. The first one was bring an a capella piece, the second was bring any choral piece we wanted, and last week was from the baroque era.
It ended up being a thing where I kept bringing in these old Scottish or Irish pieces to listen to.
So she told us we had to find a song from the 1400s-1600s and said she wondered how long I could keep this trend going because the farther back in time you go the less records they kept.
I took that as a challenge. So, I got to work.
It was aggravating because there was one tune name that kept coming up, Calín Óg a Stór. I found the different arrangements of it. I found the history behind it. I even found freakin sheet music for it! But there wasn't a recording for how it would sound back then. Well, I found one that said it was, but it sounded way too modern.
And then it turns out a bunch of these other tunes I keep looking up were from completely different places.
I even ended up finding a piece from the mid 900s-early 1000s!
But nothing from the Renaissance!
Now it's the night before and I saw a youtube link that said, Medieval Scottish Chants. I could tell it wasn't going to be actual historical ones, but that was a good lead.
I looked it up and started looking up the titles I got. I managed to find a website written in Scottish Garlic, which I've never seen before, that was a rare sight to see. Unfortunately the topic wasn't on what I needed.
And then FINALLY I found one called Piobaireachd Dhomhnuill Dhuibh which is from the early 1400s. And it's played on a Queen Mary harp which was an instrument played at that time.
And since she's gone from 1600-1750 to 1400-1600, she might tell us to find an even older song.
Probably not though, because like she said, records, especially of music, is virtually non-existent that far back in history.
But I'm still going to tell her I found one from the 9-1000s
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