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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>thank you for that I will look them up they sound like
they could be just the ticket</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>sasha</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 02, 2004 5:03
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Music for the Camino</DIV>
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<DIV>After a long absence from participating in this list (boring story as to
why), I was intrigued by the recent question of music for practice walks and
some of the responses to it. Rather than listening to pastiches written for
the pop tunes market, my preference would be to listen to some of the marching
(drinking etc.) songs medieval and early modern pilgrims heard enroute to
Santiago. Many of those songs have haunting melodies and walking rhythms as
they were sung as pilgrims marched. Not a few of them are devotional, often
sung to or in praise of Mary, but others are secular. A few are even a
bit bawdy. Nights in refugios then, as now, included many glasses of beer and
wine!</DIV>
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<DIV>There is a large and growing discography of such music, and many of the
recordings are excellent ones. Some keywords to find them are: 1) singers
and musicians including Anonymous 4, Jordi Savall and his groups Hesperion and
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Montserrat Figueras, Alia Musica, and
Discantus; and 2) titles or descriptions including the terms "Codex las
Huelgas," "Llibre Vermell," and most particularly "Codex Calixtinus." Fairly
inexpensive recordings of pilgrim music are available from Naxos, although the
best ones tend to come from high-end European record companies like Harmonia
Mundi, Jade, and Astree-Auvidis.</DIV>
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<DIV>My current favorite is a disc I found last year by the French female
singing group Discantus "Compostelle: Le chant de l'etoile" (Paris:
Jade). With a crystalline sound, the performances of various laudes to
St. James and pilgrim songs on the disc are haunting indeed.</DIV>
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<DIV>E. O. Pederson</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>