Well at the moment I’m working for an Auckland University PhD student, typesetting some 15th Century German manuscripts. I did the first last year, and another is underway at the moment. They are flute concertos, with either string, or string and horn accompaniment.
Apart from huge ink splotches taking out whole bars of music, they are going very well. But what I can’t get my head around is just how long ago they were written. 15th Century?? That’s AGES ago. To think that these manuscripts have been sitting in a library for hundreds and hundreds of years. AMAZING. They were even written a few hundred years before New Zealand was discovered. Amazing.
The actual music?? It is in fact pretty catchy.
Category: music projects
WOW! That is so cool, what an honour to be typesetting them…how crazy to think that NZ wasn’t even found when that music was around… I remember being in Europe and tripping out on how little history we have compared the rest of the world… would love to hear this old music sometime, especially if it is catchy hahahah! Do de do, do da dooooo
Comment by Sarah — 31 August, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
That sounds hot. Can I help?
Comment by Jo — 14 September, 2008 @ 5:17 pm