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What ancient musical instruments gained popularity after modern reconstructions? I know that the lyre is one of them, but what others?

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I wholeheartedly agree!

One of the things out group does is play for dancers at reenactment events. The dance steps were recorded for a lot of the Renaissance period pieces, and it's pretty incredible to be able to coordinate the tunes for the same dances from hundreds of years ago.

It really changes the atmosphere of an event to have music around; it's a living connection to history.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

As I like learning about history as well, having historical music education helps tie things together also. You can follow who are the trendy cultural centers of the time, and different countries get the best composers, and just the attitudes of the people of the time, if you have songs meant to be played by some rich guys full orchestra, or one person playing folk music on a single instrument. With being the musician, you're not an observer, you're trying to embody the spirit that song was composed to share with others. It's like a very basic time machine if you really get into what you're doing. I think it's really cool stuff!

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