The music of our ancestors

[KosmicKat]

I have a real dislike of classical music , with the exception of a few , it really grates on me , I remember being really annoyed when my mum used to play it ,I find it painful . But put some celtic music on or the wonderful Native American music and I'm lifted up !! x

There's classical music and there's "classical" music. I find a great deal of Haydn grates on me. Mozart tires me. Beethoven has helped once or twice. But the composers whose music I enjoy the most lived between the late 12th and early 17th centuries. Thanks to performers like the Dufay Collective and Ensemble Gilles Binchois new life has been breathed into what would otherwise have remained dusty tomes, the domain of scholars.

[Calabash]

How about this . . . . . .

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2h2MSZbHTM

[ronin]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=267LBdz-ywc

[Calabash]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCjxZHGHL4Y

[Moonlight]

I first heard this song in my early twenties. I learned it very rapidly, from memory, as if it was still alive inside of me. I sung it as a lullaby to my daughter, it was her favourite song, and she now sings it to her son (I do too when he sleeps over... at his request).

It's an old French song. It is the story of an old blind man going from town to town and loving his life as it is.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYW4Wx7sK3o