This was a phenomenal series - thank you so much! As a musician, I had a pathetically small understanding of where everything we take for granted today came from. You've inspired me to buy some books and look into all this further! Edited to add: my mind was just blown once again with what you said about the etymology of the word 'miniatures'. I'm going to have to watch this whole series a few times to take it all in!
This is packed with impressive research, editing, and humor. I'm going to revisit the previous episodes. My brain can't take all of this! 👏 👏 👏👏 I wonder why they didn't use blue color for the notes since they already had them on their miniatures. Maybe blue was too expensive to waste for writing? Thank you!
Even on simple plainchant manuscripts, sometimes they used blue (alongside red /or red and black) on those big capital letters at the beginning of a song. Most common source of blue pigment was azurite, a blue stone rich in copper. Not rare but a pain to grind, etc...
I'm greatful for the amount of time you put into this series! I'd be curious to see how the music notation evolves further, beyond 14th to 16th, 18th etc. Nevertheless thanks for this series of videos, I found it very helpful in understanding the history in which music notation evolved to current day standards, I'm curious where it might go from here?
Informative, funny; really enjoyed watching these. Thank you very much
Love this.
Just watched the whole series. Well done.
Great series! Im doing a paper on methods of musical notation and this amount of knowledge compressed into a series is really impressive! Thank you!
This was a phenomenal series - thank you so much! As a musician, I had a pathetically small understanding of where everything we take for granted today came from. You've inspired me to buy some books and look into all this further! Edited to add: my mind was just blown once again with what you said about the etymology of the word 'miniatures'. I'm going to have to watch this whole series a few times to take it all in!
Thank you
This is packed with impressive research, editing, and humor.
I'm going to revisit the previous episodes. My brain can't take all of this!
👏 👏 👏👏
I wonder why they didn't use blue color for the notes since they already had them on their miniatures. Maybe blue was too expensive to waste for writing?
Thank you!
Even on simple plainchant manuscripts, sometimes they used blue (alongside red /or red and black) on those big capital letters at the beginning of a song.
Most common source of blue pigment was azurite, a blue stone rich in copper. Not rare but a pain to grind, etc...
@@migueldoliveiracomposer thank you
I'm greatful for the amount of time you put into this series! I'd be curious to see how the music notation evolves further, beyond 14th to 16th, 18th etc. Nevertheless thanks for this series of videos, I found it very helpful in understanding the history in which music notation evolved to current day standards, I'm curious where it might go from here?