Nostalgia BY BILLY COLLINS Remember the 1340s? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the decade, and I was draped in one of those capes that were popular, the ones with unicorns and pomegranates in needlework. Everyone would pause for beer and onions in the afternoon, and at night we would play a game called “Find the Cow.” Everything was hand-lettered then, not like today. Where has the summer of 1572 gone? Brocade and sonnet marathons were the rage. We used to dress up in the flags of rival baronies and conquer one another in cold rooms of stone. Out on the dance floor we were all doing the Struggle while your sister practiced the Daphne all alone in her room. We borrowed the jargon of farriers for our slang. These days language seems transparent, a badly broken code. The 1790s will never come again. Childhood was big. People would take walks to the very tops of hills and write down what they saw in their journals without speaking. Our collars were high and our hats were extremely soft. We would surprise each other with alphabets made of twigs. It was a wonderful time to be alive, or even dead. I am very fond of the period between 1815 and 1821. Europe trembled while we sat still for our portraits. And I would love to return to 1901 if only for a moment, time enough to wind up a music box and do a few dance steps, or shoot me back to 1922 or 1941, or at least let me recapture the serenity of last month when we picked berries and glided through afternoons in a canoe. Even this morning would be an improvement over the present. I was in the garden then, surrounded by the hum of bees and the Latin names of flowers, watching the early light flash off the slanted windows of the greenhouse and silver the limbs on the rows of dark hemlocks. As usual, I was thinking about the moments of the past, letting my memory rush over them like water rushing over the stones on the bottom of a stream. I was even thinking a little about the future, that place where people are doing a dance we cannot imagine, a dance whose name we can only guess.

@@TheJunehog Let myself our a my Nowgorodian thankfulily curtsy

When the wenches were fair and mocked not the size of thine shames

Facts! Remember when Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England, with the bull Regnans in Excelsis?? Shit was wild bruh!! 🤘 #Lit #Erature

@@growitheflow Indeed!

This guy

And this guy.

Here. 🙋🏻‍♂️

Listening in 800 here. Charlemagne was just crowned holy Roman emperor. Today is a great day!

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Nah. Winstad Manor

This reminds me..... I should perhaps visit the Jarl and see whats up these days...

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Hey I’m guessing your British and/or very old. In the USA, “Lakeview Manor” would be a retirement community near the “Riverwood” golf club😁. Am I right?😊

More like you'd hear this in the Tavern after working 16 hours in blacksmith's shop.

I passed a crazy youth and students didn't have time for play music and i did it only after

Again and surprised on Sunday morning

Bien sûr....

That's is so awesome!

I'm studying there now! IU's musical productions are so beautiful. I wish this genre was more common in current schools. It helps me fuel a great deal of my curiosity. Cheers to you!

I bet he'd get a nice suit of armor and horse to party with his buds with wenches, drinking mead on the weekends, if he didn't have any gigs.

It would've looked like magic to him. We'd be like aliens. Its really incredible how much humans change in relatively such a short period of time.

@@Hieillua Faster every day...

tbh, Dowland was kind of a megastar of his age. That´s how we know of him. Still, not bad. Rocking the charts for 500 years. Not bad at all.

Yeah. He probably only imagined a couple of hundred.

beautifully said :) 🎼🎶

This music was _written_ for the lute, so of course it sounds sublime!

Haunting because of the minor notes, beautiful because of the majors; complementing each other. As in Life.

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Ich wünschte es gäbe alle Stücke auch für die Harfe! Wunderschön!

Have you tried vitamins?

My condolences.

Oh bless your heart ...and what a beautiful legacy In having your son carry on the name in heaven ..godbless 🙏

My heart goes out to you and Dowland. May the magical power of lute music transform your life and bring you peace. ❤

@@elissarizzo2713 NOBODY ever actually 'dies' ... we just move house. We were,we are and forever shall be! For sure our Mind goes round and round in ever-changing garbs! Peace to you too Elissa!

Tu comentario me entristece. Dios te conceda la fortaleza y el consuelo. Bendiciones.

That was beautifully put. Well said and merry Christmas!

As opposed to the sound of which other instruments

Quite an ancient analogy, due to the similar sound of 'heart' and 'string' in Latin (cor and corda)!

@@reasonablyserious It was an opinion on the sound made by string instruments. No comparison to any others is necessary, nor is one implied.

@@oliverjdoyle7587 An eloquent response! Thanks.

guitar sucks. why ruin good music like that.

The boy sure does Djent!

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Yes, its about 400 years since the last one. Perhaps a hashtag would help. #DowlandNewAlbum :)

His latest concert was amazing, you need to see him live!

Yes, he's late with his sophomore effort. I hope he doesn't go electric like Dylan. I here Nickleback is doing covers of Dowland.

Excellent for work or studying

Don't forget: the ducking stool washed away more than a few "troublesome affairs" in the not so mundane world of the 16th Century.

Yep, there's nothing more relaxing than Luting. Pillaging is good, too.

Agree….

Sir, your comment make me think, do you know some reference about lute music and angels help mankind in transition called death???? Because I knew Alaude in portrait of the angels...

Right. I listen it to study

This is the shit. Not gangsta-rap.

so well put (into mere words). :) 🎼🎶

Hey we were childhood friends! I have genetic memory of this time period and the music. Blessings and Peace.

I loved your comment, I remember some past lifes and I remember with Aloud ness Alaude☘️💚☀️💖

@@garyegray Sure you do Baldrick!

​@Jaime Garcia​ r/whoosh

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Brilliantly said . I guess You have read my mind. Best regards .

Thats the Thing a Melody with words is very much some else's thoughts without words you are free to feel anything

As well as Luís de Milan's baroque music for me.... Masterpieces!

And great while working from home. Rock/pop too distracting, jazz too busy, this is just right. 🤗

Yo yo...whateth is up wit dat?

The sound of the Lute transports me back through the ages.

So Dowland wrote this music? It wasn't written in the Middle Ages? Because that's what it sounds like. Beautiful

@@joho9815 16th-17th century England--Renaissance.

I met Paul O'dette at a concert in San Diego. It was in the middle of a Santa Ana (very hot dry wind from the desert) and he was frantic because the seams of his instruments were splitting. But he was unfailingly courteous to the backstage staff of whom I was one. A gentleman.

So glad you mentioned Paul O'dette. I agree that he is also a master at the lute and enjoy his recordings as well.

Well.. actually you would more likely be a poor peasant and you would die incredibly young... after some years of imcredibly hard work ...unless you were an early dead baby...

@@stefaniasmanio859 You unfortunately are right !!!!!! Only rich people could listen to these beautiful Renaissance lute pieces by John DOWLAND .........

Music was deeper back then....

Times were extremely hard and perilous....not sure I would like to live in the time of Henry viii or Catherine Medici. I like to read about it but living in horrendous conditions and plague, no thanks...

@@ivankaedinger3631 the sun shone , the sky was often blue , birds sang there was no petrol fumes - people slept and woke the next day

And for each day of the week too😌

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@@alexageev6985 My translator cannot be used,sorry

Tis quite exquisite

I like to imagine a time exchange with a medieval minstrel with a lute in a duet with a modern acoustic guitarist.

@@kentjensen4939 Superb idea!

I enjoy the death metal lute..."music to cut off your wife's head" as Henry VIII would say.

Very relaxing music from the Middle Ages

Listening to Renaissance lute music is always right for me!

I would like to compose something similar in those times

Staying indoors with lute music avoids bubonic COVID.

Thank God for inspirational teachers!

Your high school teacher got an awesome taste in music, it is rare in our days a teacher to be such an inspirational person to enlight his students mind and their taste for beautiful, soulful music!!!

Might be simply petty jealousy; because their Lord favours the curls of one to those of the other.

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That 1459 P Diddy cover was awful.

Ora il mondo sta diventando più brutto

And beauty becomes more precious. I won't stop looking everywhere to find it. This recording and listeners to it (most) are creating and participating in beauty. Follow the light.

You said: "I have been listening to these poems for years and with each listening my soul takes me higher and higher...up, where the most beautiful medieval villages dwell, the most beautiful village festivals immersed in the wildest nature, full of young people who they dance, drunk adults outside the house sleeping on the floor overwhelmed by wine. The most beautiful fantasies of ancient times, in an enchanted melody...." You are very creative in your description. I agree!

I do that too-wish more people would

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Perhaps this channel just hasn’t been monetized yet, but of course they may just be a very nice person who wishes for you to have no ads while watching.

I'm getting ads every 4-5 minutes?

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Pull the timestamp to the end of the video till it stops, then pull it back to the beginning. The ads will disappear.

Leeches Rule!!!

Da.

Me. Me! Pick me! Duh. Duh.

This COVID-19 is like the modern day plague

You are not the only one at anything, there are just too many humans to be the only one at something.