How very, very cool!
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rowangolightlyJust heard about this on the Classical Radio station here in Tulsa:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209371/Secret-code-etched-Stirling-Castle-revealed-oldest-written-music-Scotand.html
Thank gods for the powers of observation and critical thinking of this family!
Really stoked about this; can't wait to hear someone record this "new" old piece of music.
Now I really, really want to go there!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209371/Secret-code-etched-Stirling-Castle-revealed-oldest-written-music-Scotand.html
Thank gods for the powers of observation and critical thinking of this family!
Really stoked about this; can't wait to hear someone record this "new" old piece of music.
Now I really, really want to go there!
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Date: 2009-08-27 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-08-27 07:08 pm (UTC)I'm looking at the code right now...
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Date: 2009-08-27 07:47 pm (UTC)I can't help but envision a story around it, why it had to be hidden in that way...
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Date: 2009-08-27 08:19 pm (UTC)King James V then could sit with the harp, raise his gaze dreamily toward the ceiling as if inspired by the muse . . . and, voila! On the ceiling was the 15th century version of the notes written in ink on the skin up one's sleeve by a schoolchild bent on cheating on a test!
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Date: 2009-08-27 08:41 pm (UTC)I don't have a great opinion of James V anyway...what an idiot! (This based primarily the fact that he handed Raleigh over to be executed so he could suck up to the Spanish.)
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Date: 2009-08-27 09:20 pm (UTC)Plus, the image around which the "cheat sheet" appears is that of a lady . . . whom he might have even told whomever he was trying to impress that it was his "muse."
If you end up performing this piece as QG, you are welcome to use my speculations to amuse your audience.
(Oh, and ... rereading the article, it's not clear where the roundels were in the bed chamber. Maybe not on the ceiling, but perhaps on the wall near the ceiling? An even more convenient angle for looking at embedded code -- less neck and eye strain. :P )
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Date: 2009-08-27 09:29 pm (UTC)Tudor history is something I know TOO much about. Um, except for the fact that I confused V and VI in my last comment....
And he was Mary, Queen of Scots' father; other than that, he really is a minor footnote in history. He might have been like that in real life, too...
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Date: 2009-08-27 09:39 pm (UTC)(See, I know even less of the history of that era -- hence my edited comment here!)
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Date: 2009-08-27 09:44 pm (UTC)See, when I was first playing QG, I didn't research past the year I was playing; didn't want to know my own "future history." So when I went to England the first time and visited Westminster Abbey, the little church right next to it is where Raleigh's remains are interred, right in front of the pulpit. I read the sign outside the church explaining that James VI had Raleigh imprisoned for piracy (QG gave him a letter of marque) but James was sucking up to the Spanish. I stood there, in modern dress and exploded, "He did WHAT? That little PISSANT!" The friends I was traveling with roared and everybody else looked at me like I was crazy.
You should've seen my reaction when they wanted to take a picture of me in front of that unspeakable Puritan, Cromwell!
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Date: 2009-08-27 10:32 pm (UTC)"QE", I believe, is you...
::gd&r::
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Date: 2009-08-27 08:38 pm (UTC)(Becky's looking into it right now!)
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