Edi beo þu heuene quene: a love song by any name

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  Valerie Wedel

  17th October 2020 at 11:04 pm

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  Hello Ian –

  This is Valerie. I was referrd to your site here as preparation for a workshop with Nancy Thym tomorrow, regarding medieval harp accompaniments.

  This is fascinating and well written. I thoroughly enjoy your post! Thank you for this marvelous information.

  I look forward to playing and singing Edi Beo. I trust you have no objections, since it is so old?

  Thanks, Valerie

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    Ian PittawayPost author

    18th October 2020 at 12:11 am

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    Hello, Valerie, and thanks for your post.

    I don’t know Nancy personally, so I’m really pleased you’ve let me know that my article is being used as a source for medieval harp playing. There’s a much longer article here https://earlymusicmuse.com/performingmedievalmusic2of3/ on historically attested ways of turning medieval monophony into polyphonic arrangements, and a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYYUrBOZpY of these methods in practice on medieval harp, which I hope you’ll find helpful.

    Of course, I couldn’t have any objections to you playing Edi. I have no claim on this wonderful music, which is there for anyone to play and enjoy.

    With my best wishes.

    Ian

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