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Re: Music for Megaliths

Jan 06, 2010, 20:42

I've just written a short article for the Heritage Journal, about a personal association of a 'megalithic event' with a piece of music:

Very nice feature Mr g.

Your -

"We should occasionally consider, perhaps, the respective significance of message and monument, within ritual. The circles, tombs and rows, that we gaze at now, may have been an integral part of the stage, part of the cast, even, but no more than that; sight without sound. Beautiful, precious, sometimes sublime, yet only a fragment of the scene."

Reminded me of Rupert Till (writing here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4108867/Stonehenge-was-giant-concert-venue.html ) that -

"The most interesting thing is we managed to get the whole space (at Maryhill) to resonate, almost like a wine glass will ring if you run a finger round it.

"While that was happening a simple drum beat sounded incredibly dramatic. The space had real character; it felt that we had gone somewhere special."

Didn't Devereux also say something on this...?

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