Please consider subscribing to my channel 🙂I have also recorded this beautiful tune on the lute. To see this please click here: th-cam.com/video/tURvt-uOnKg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2wkceU5Udd_XJ-lM
Beautiful... I'm curious how we even know what this song sounded like. Has it been performed and transcribed by musicians throughout the ages? Or did King Richard's original manuscript survive almost 1000 years of hsitory?
There was this documentary about China in which an old guy was playing the guqin, an ancient stringed instrument. That melody was written by Confucius, over 2,500 years ago (obviously, Confuçius had sheet music)! But Plato'ㅅ ,main interests were ts philosophy and
Na h Confucius didn't have sheet music, he probably had music theory developed to write down a song which was also common in ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient complete music theory for a song is seiklios epitaph of ancient Greeks. But this doesn't mean sheet music or staff notation. Sheet notation was invented and developed in middle age Europe from 10th century to 13th century. With 14th century staff notation came to it's final form we know today in Europe.
Wow, Richard. Not only did I not know you were a musician, but I also didn't think you had anything that gentle in you. I'd bow to the king, but you've been dead for, what, 800 years?
I can't stop coming back to listen to your gittern lament again and again. It's the most melancholic interpretation of Ja Nuns Hons Pris on gittern I have come through : we literally feel the king's pain, sadness and powerless rage in the surprisingly deep voice of this little instrument. It talks straight to the heart ! Even your face shows how much you feel it, and I love it. Amazing interpretation, thank you (again, yes, but we cannot like more than once, lol) !! I'd be over the moon if I had such a gittern and be able to play this. But for the moment I do my best on my ukulele baritone tuned in low-D. I can't read music, so I sing over arpeggios. Not as medieval sounding, but already a little spark of bliss ! 😊
This is it! This is the instrument I need! I’ve been trying to find a new one to play but none have sounded right, or if they have a nice sound, they don’t feel right. I’ve been trying the mandolin, got a lyre, wanted a lute but damn they’re expensive and I wasn’t too sure on the sound. But this……it’s so beautiful. Looks amazing. Sounds even better!
@@petermichaelmoore4908 it is a great instrument. I think the lute is much more beautiful personally, but the gittern is nice and easier to play. It is the same price as a lute though. Hope you find what you seek.
This melody reminds me of a past life, so clearly and realistically that it seems like just yesterday I was listening to this song and pictures from the past appear before my eyes...
Please click these links to see more of my medieval gittern music: Saint Marie Virgine by St.Godric th-cam.com/video/-CNnniyFnYw/w-d-xo.html Lamento di Tristano th-cam.com/video/cD584DP_tGM/w-d-xo.html Sainte Nicholaes by St. Godric th-cam.com/video/orjoq_yy0xU/w-d-xo.html Cantiga 377 (cantigas de Santa Maria): th-cam.com/video/1GTZhiCoSW4/w-d-xo.html
just about to order our first 5 string gittern........ won't pick it up until September at the Medieval Music in the Dales festival, but looking forward to it! Thank you for your art! I really like your drawings as well! Sleeping fox is brilliant!
@@edwardfosterart3848 yes, it is a George Stevens! And it's a 4 course single he's reconstructing after a Cantiga 13th century image, although me wanting the single strings may make it even earlier, he says, so I'm a happy bunny! g-d-g'-c' tuning....
Delightful. Also, so pleased yu have details in the description below the video. When I saw your gittern, I immediately thought it looked like George Stevens had made it, and he had! very nice tone!
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It’s a beautiful song quiet. It’s so sad. It was when King Richard was in prison. Hey, where can I get one of those medieval guitars at bro please tell me.
Beautiful, really considering getting a gittern, lute or cittern. The gittern seems to be a more elegant instrument than the cittern but more out there than the lute which is a nice trade of. Have you played any other instruments?
Thank you 🙂 Yes the gittern is a great instrument. I also play lute, guitar, etc. The lute is beautiful too. Happy to recommend instrument makers if you need help
Oh wow, this is fantastic! I play guitar, uke, and saz, but im really looking for an older sound like this! How does the gittern compare to the lute in terms of skill crossover?
Thank you 🙂The gittern is not complicated to play and is much easier than lute. I play the gittern with plectrum mostly but it also sound good with fingers, as in the video. Hope that helps
His mother was the Duke (ruling duchess, rather than a consort duchess) of Aquitaine. It was almost half a century before it was part of France rather than just theoretically controlled by the Count of Paris (who the French Dukes got together and made king because he was unable to stop the dukes from whatever they wanted to do).
Thank you 🙂I came from a classical guitar background so that helped. Medieval music is often just a melody line of a song so you just improvise around this.
Please consider subscribing to my channel 🙂I have also recorded this beautiful tune on the lute. To see this please click here: th-cam.com/video/tURvt-uOnKg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2wkceU5Udd_XJ-lM
This is the kind of music that reaches deep within the soul.
Why does music like this reach right through me and charms me with the gentlest persuasion.?..Thank you for your wonderful video
Thank you for your wonderful words! 🙂
Vielleicht hast du damals schon mal gelebt.
I truly believe that it’s ancestral memories…
His mother was Eleanor of Aquitaine, part of the lands of the troubadours. ( Cokaigne)
Because you don't the language and it's a festishization of unfamiliar
Eleanor and the troubadours of Aquitaine are all over this. Richard was her favourite.
I agree
Achingly beautiful and played with such sensitivity... thank you.
Thank you! :)
Beautiful... I'm curious how we even know what this song sounded like. Has it been performed and transcribed by musicians throughout the ages? Or did King Richard's original manuscript survive almost 1000 years of hsitory?
It is notated in manuscripts :) So yes to both your questions
There was this documentary about China in which an old guy was playing the guqin, an ancient stringed instrument. That melody was written by Confucius, over 2,500 years ago (obviously, Confuçius had sheet music)! But Plato'ㅅ ,main interests were ts philosophy and
@@John-qd5of I'd be very interested in seeing this documentary. Do you recall it's title?
Confucius having sheet music? Doubt it. Source please.
Na h Confucius didn't have sheet music, he probably had music theory developed to write down a song which was also common in ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient complete music theory for a song is seiklios epitaph of ancient Greeks.
But this doesn't mean sheet music or staff notation.
Sheet notation was invented and developed in middle age Europe from 10th century to 13th century. With 14th century staff notation came to it's final form we know today in Europe.
Imagine the guards listening to a king reduced to a prisoner composing a song about his sorrow.
Lean out of your window Golden hair
Ive been singing a merry air in the midnight air 🎶
Beautiful simply beautiful
Thank you sir 🙏 ❤
Thank you!
Wow, Richard. Not only did I not know you were a musician, but I also didn't think you had anything that gentle in you. I'd bow to the king, but you've been dead for, what, 800 years?
I can't stop coming back to listen to your gittern lament again and again. It's the most melancholic interpretation of Ja Nuns Hons Pris on gittern I have come through : we literally feel the king's pain, sadness and powerless rage in the surprisingly deep voice of this little instrument. It talks straight to the heart ! Even your face shows how much you feel it, and I love it. Amazing interpretation, thank you (again, yes, but we cannot like more than once, lol) !! I'd be over the moon if I had such a gittern and be able to play this. But for the moment I do my best on my ukulele baritone tuned in low-D. I can't read music, so I sing over arpeggios. Not as medieval sounding, but already a little spark of bliss ! 😊
Ah bless you for your lovely words! I'm sure that your playing of your baritone uke is beautiful too
This touches my soul ❤️
Thank you Gill 🙂
Благодаря! Любов от България 💖 🙏 🥰
Thank you!
That’s beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! 🙂
Beautiful playing!
Thank you!
Thank you.
Thank you :)
This is it! This is the instrument I need! I’ve been trying to find a new one to play but none have sounded right, or if they have a nice sound, they don’t feel right. I’ve been trying the mandolin, got a lyre, wanted a lute but damn they’re expensive and I wasn’t too sure on the sound. But this……it’s so beautiful. Looks amazing. Sounds even better!
@@petermichaelmoore4908 it is a great instrument. I think the lute is much more beautiful personally, but the gittern is nice and easier to play. It is the same price as a lute though. Hope you find what you seek.
This is one of those songs I stumbled upon a while back and simply loved it.
Excellent and simple rendition here, very nice!
Thankyou for Your music, this song is very nice ..🥰😘
Thank you 🙂
Hermoso trabajo musical, muchas gracias!
Gracias!
Softly and melodious. Bravo
Thank you! :)
Lovely! Beautiful sounding instrument.
Thank you 🙂
ا قنبوس يمني يا🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great! Such a culture! Greetings from Siberia, Russia!
Thank you!
It Is a Wonderfull Melodi. The Sound, the way of play, etc, etc, etc.......😮
Thank you! 🙂
This melody reminds me of a past life, so clearly and realistically that it seems like just yesterday I was listening to this song and pictures from the past appear before my eyes...
I'm glad it moves you so
Maravilloso
Thank you!
Never heard the tune or the instrument before... Fell in love with both instantly. Thank you very much.
Thank you 🙂
This is absolutely amazing. Please make more music like this
Thank you! 🙂
What a treat! ❤
Thank you!
Fantastic as always my friend 😀
Thank you! :)
Awesome
Thank you 🙂
Absolutely beautiful Eddie xx
Thanks Tricia! 🙂 x
Beautifully felt…
Thank you!
It sounds so peaceful its like a dreaming moment thank you so much ! I hope I can play this instrument one day
Thank you!
Really amazing work, my friend.
Thank you! :)
Please click these links to see more of my medieval gittern music:
Saint Marie Virgine by St.Godric th-cam.com/video/-CNnniyFnYw/w-d-xo.html
Lamento di Tristano th-cam.com/video/cD584DP_tGM/w-d-xo.html
Sainte Nicholaes by St. Godric th-cam.com/video/orjoq_yy0xU/w-d-xo.html
Cantiga 377 (cantigas de Santa Maria): th-cam.com/video/1GTZhiCoSW4/w-d-xo.html
Wow! This is so beautiful. Thank You
Thank you 🙂
Wonderful
Thanks 🙂
Beautiful :)
Thanks Paul! :)
Absolument magnifique !...
Thank you :)
just about to order our first 5 string gittern........ won't pick it up until September at the Medieval Music in the Dales festival, but looking forward to it! Thank you for your art! I really like your drawings as well! Sleeping fox is brilliant!
Lovely! Are you getting one from George? Thank you for your compliments!
@@edwardfosterart3848 yes, it is a George Stevens! And it's a 4 course single he's reconstructing after a Cantiga 13th century image, although me wanting the single strings may make it even earlier, he says, so I'm a happy bunny! g-d-g'-c' tuning....
Exquisite! ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you!!
Lovely
Thank you!
Delightful. Also, so pleased yu have details in the description below the video. When I saw your gittern, I immediately thought it looked like George Stevens had made it, and he had! very nice tone!
Thank you!
Nice version.
Thank you :)
wonderful thankyou
Thank you too!
That is entirely beautiful.
Thank you 🙂
Good job brother.
Thanks :)
@@edwardfosterart3848 👍
Great sounds wish I could find one to try though im not the best with finger picking
Thank you!
Gorgeous!!!
Thank you!! :)
Muy nostálgico y hermoso a la vez.
Thank you!
ah, takes me back... ❤
Back to the 12th century? ;)
@@Elephantine999to the crusades
Your gittern has a pleasing tone when you play it.
Thank you!
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Like a dream.
Thank you 🙂
As sung by Blondel de Nesle when searching for his imprisoned king, Richard the Lionheart?
It’s a beautiful song quiet. It’s so sad. It was when King Richard was in prison. Hey, where can I get one of those medieval guitars at bro please tell me.
Thank you! The gittern was made for me by George Stevens :)
Beautiful, really considering getting a gittern, lute or cittern. The gittern seems to be a more elegant instrument than the cittern but more out there than the lute which is a nice trade of. Have you played any other instruments?
Thank you 🙂 Yes the gittern is a great instrument. I also play lute, guitar, etc. The lute is beautiful too. Happy to recommend instrument makers if you need help
@@edwardfosterart3848 Well, I see many gitterns for 3000 euros and up, but maybe there is a second hand one closer to half the price?
What a beautiful interpretation ! How do you tune your gittern ?
Thank you! DADGC
nice
Thanks :)
sweet
Thank you!
👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you 😊
@@edwardfosterart3848 💕💕💕
Where could I buy a guittern such as yours?
Details in the description
beautiful rendition, but one note, why does almost no one besides Owain Phyfe put vocals on this song?
Thank you! Yes, he sings it beautifully
Oh wow, this is fantastic!
I play guitar, uke, and saz, but im really looking for an older sound like this!
How does the gittern compare to the lute in terms of skill crossover?
Thank you 🙂The gittern is not complicated to play and is much easier than lute. I play the gittern with plectrum mostly but it also sound good with fingers, as in the video. Hope that helps
@edwardfosterart3848 thank you so much, where did you get yours? Do you know any good makers in the UK?
@@Asheanae I bought the gittern from George Stevens. In the description there is a link to his website 🙂
@edwardfosterart3848 oh they're gorgeous and completely out of my league!
Gonna have to break out the chisels! 😅
Does it have lyrics
yes
How do we know the Lionheart wrote this?
vive les anglo-normaunds!
Lutes mandolins sitars and even early violins music of the middle ages especially in England Germany France Russia
Soothes my soul after the current Trump win. Thank you.
Thank you
Richard the Lionheart was french and was also become an English King and his known in the Knights Templar and the crusades
His mother was the Duke (ruling duchess, rather than a consort duchess) of Aquitaine. It was almost half a century before it was part of France rather than just theoretically controlled by the Count of Paris (who the French Dukes got together and made king because he was unable to stop the dukes from whatever they wanted to do).
Many English kings are french buddy get over it
This really is a beautiful piece of music. And you are exceptional with your instrument. Where did you learn to play that?
Thank you 🙂I came from a classical guitar background so that helped. Medieval music is often just a melody line of a song so you just improvise around this.