tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post4822987793029237385..comments2023-09-07T18:57:41.344+01:00Comments on Early Modern Whale: "The onely pretiring time"DrRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-89563425696788538432007-03-24T17:55:00.000+00:002007-03-24T17:55:00.000+00:00Always good to go over to Valve, and I followed th...Always good to go over to Valve, and I followed the thread. No, I could not face 'The only pretty Sting time', having too many prejudices to overcome. I guess I assume that most of these 16th century guys started in Cathedral choirs. Morley is thought to have continued as countertenor. So might they have sung on the sharp side of the middle of the note, and free of 'vibrato'/'noise' or otherwise 'pure'?<BR/>I quite often sit mesmerised by the fuzzy waveforms the 'Audacity' software produces as it embarks on making vinyl sounds into MP3's. You get 'noise' reduction as a process, so you don't do the process too often before you think of removing 'noise' all across a track: and everything turns into a fairground organ piping away. I must study Emma Kirkby letting fall some melodious tears, looking for relative smoothness.DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-48778139801845928332007-03-24T17:06:00.000+00:002007-03-24T17:06:00.000+00:00Roy, to go slightly off the point of your post: do...Roy, to go slightly off the point of your post: do you have an opinion of (have you heard?) Sting's new Dowland album?<BR/><BR/>If you go to the <I>Valve</I> [<A>http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/noise1/</A>] there's a discussion started up about the differences between Renaissance and modern singing, and music, pendant to a brief review of that CD.Rachel Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09514816247989239714noreply@blogger.com