[UK] Lost Vivaldi concerto found in the National Archives of Scotland

(UK) Lost Vivaldi concerto found in the National Archives of Scotland:
"The discovery of a previously unknown score of a flute concerto by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) in the National Archives of Scotland has been announced. Andrew Woolley, Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, has identified the score of 'Il Gran Mogol' as a lost part of series of four ‘national’ concertos by Vivaldi. The manuscript score (GD40/15/54/2) is in the hand of a copyist, and is among the family papers of the Marquesses of Lothian, an important collection that was purchased by the National Archives of Scotland in 1991."

Royal College of Music NOMINATED PRIZES JULY 2010

Royal College of Music
NOMINATED PRIZES
JULY 2010


The following students have been awarded Prizes for the academic year 2009/2010:


Harold Darke Prize for Organ
Hannah Parry-Ridout

Walford Davies Prize for Organ
Jonathan Bunney

Beatrice Leigh Prize for BMus3 Piano Recital
Tomoka Shigeno

Sarah Mundlak Memorial Prize for Piano
Joao Pereira Bettencourt da Pereira

McCulloch Prize for Opera
Jimmy Holliday

Eric Joseph Shilling Prize for Opera
Lorna Bridge

Stephen Trier Award for Bass Clarinet lessons
Kymia Kermani

Herbert Samuel Memorial Prize for Horn
Katie Woolley

Herbert Samuel Memorial Prize for Trumpet
Shane Brennan

Herbert Samuel Memorial Prize for Trombone
Rupert Whitehead

Herbert Samuel Memorial Prize for B.Trombone
Ross Brennan

Herbert Samuel Memorial Prize for Tuba
Christopher Barrett

McKenna Prize for Baroque Music
Yu-Wei Hu

Sabian Prize for Percussion
Serge Vuille

Joseph Horovitz Prize for Composition for Screen
Martin Batchelar

Cobbett & Hurlstone Prize for Composition
David Rafferty

Adrian Cruft Prize for Composition
Shiva Feshareki

Earl of Dalhousie Award
Eleanor Dennis

Knights of the Round Table Award
Michael Foyle


Professor Colin Lawson
Director

1 July 2010

Why "Bard School"?

Why "Bard School"?

If you ask me, somehow there must be a name, is it not? And I don't want mere a name. I want an interesting name related to music.

So, "Bard School" is the one.

Bards were travelling poet musicians in medieval and early modern Scotland, Ireland and Wales. There were similar professions commonly addressed as Minstrel in Europe.

To be more specific, musicians who play instruments, sing or compose secular music, poems and epics were called troubadour(in Southern France), trouvère(in Northern France) and Minnesinger (in German, and called "Meistersinger" later). There are marginal differences among the definitions of these poet musicians in each district of Europe, in terms of languages, preferred types of music and poems, and even their social classes which range widely from the poor on the fringe of society to aristocrats.

Well, the introduction of medieval secular music would end here. However, I picked this name not only for bards as truly existing musical profession in the history, but also because of the class of bards in TRPG.

The TRPG bards are characters who perform instruments, inspire their partners' courage with songs and cast simple but useful spells, such as detect magic, lullaby and cure light wounds. These musicians may not be one of the most fierce fighters or spellcasters in the game, but definitely of the most intriguing characters!

Quite similar to the true musicians in our daily life!


Photo Info:
Owain Phyfe, a modern-day minstrel plays for an audience at a Renaissance fair in 2003.
Image created by David Ball, and used under creative commons.

Related Links：
Wikipedia-Bard
Wikipeida-Mistrel
Wikipedia-Troubadour
Wikipedia-Trouvère
Wikipedia-Minnesinger
Wikipedia-TRPG

中文閱讀請見：cakecat blog: [Blog] Bard School! A Brand-New Blog for Music