Music Lesson In a Tree

[bunn]

It was little Celegorm’s idea that Cousin Fingon’s music lesson should take place in a tree.  It’s possibly not the least distracting place to have a music lesson.   Fingon and Maglor are playing Anglo-saxon style harps (hearpe) which are much more practical for climbing trees (or Thangorodrim) with than a modern harp would be.  Fingon is playing a jewelled silver hearpe, which Maglor rather disapproves of (I decided that Maglor should disapprove of silver harps when I remembered that Elrond's harp at the end of Lord of the Rings is silver.  That might not make sense, but hey.)

I have decided that the auto settings do a better job of photographing paintings than I do manually. This was taken with a 28mm manual focus lens, and the 'landscape' camera mode.

As usual, I liked the pencil sketch of the faces better than the final painted version:

Comments

[timetiger.livejournal.com]

They seem to be having a good time, as well they should. It's good to see a summer scene, and the tree looks most treeish and texturey.

I'm lookng forward to exploring the Anglo-Saxon site. I enjoyed the little harp video.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

But it is fascinating to hear the sound of an instrument so old, even if the music is a guess and I would guess perhaps a number of the construction techniques too.

I'm sure I learned at university that Anglo-Saxon music was very limited in terms of tone and range, and I can remember reading that and thinking: hmm, says who??? :-D