Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday after my swim with Troubadour by Dorothy Carter, released on Celeste in 1976.

Stephen M. Deusner wrote for Pitchfork:

Dorothy Carter was in her early 40s when she recorded her largely instrumental, entirely entrancing album Troubadour. Although the 1976 release was her debut album, she had already lived many, many lives by then and enjoyed a storied career. An artist attracted to obscure, often unwieldy instruments, she studied music at Bard College and the Royal Academy of Arts, but it was a foregone conclusion that she would chafe at the rigidity of academia. She busked all over the world in search of new sounds and new inspirations, even spending a year at a convent in Mexico where she is said to have experienced epiphanic spiritual visions...

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dorothy-carter-troubadour/

https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/dorothy-carter-the-troubadour-review

https://dorothycarter.bandcamp.com/album/troubadour

#DorothyCarter #hammereddulcimer #psaltery #music #folk

Electric Flowers by Ivan Tcherepnin on Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) released in 1982

Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin (Russian: Иван Александрович Черепнин) (February 5, 1943 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France – April 11, 1998 in Boston, USA) was an experimental, then later modernist/postmodernist, composer and a noted innovator in the field of electronics and modular synthesizers - Wikipedia

He is heard here on the psaltery!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu0Ae5uNdro

#IvanTcherepnin #experimentalmusic #modularsynth #psaltery #composerrecordingsinc

Waillee Waillee by Dorothy Carter, released in 1978 on Celeste.

Grayson Haver Currin wrote for Pitcfork:

"..The imaginative music she made with them has long been hidden away on 1978’s Waillee Waillee, a private-press gem coveted by crate diggers and Discogs hounds that has at long last been reissued, salvaged from nearly five decades of obscurity. It is the start of a loving and stepwise quest to get her prescient records—and her compelling story, in book form—into public view at last. A seamless hybrid of clarion folk arrangements and coruscant drones, Waillee Waillee functions as a signal flare for that effort, its strange permutations articulating the shapes that acoustic and new-age music would take together in the coming years. A beautiful, sad, and bemused record, Carter’s opus is a joy to behold, as alive and vital now as it was then..."

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dorothy-carter-waillee-waillee/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_rKKccLAw&list=PLI4Ej6aD_bJpqKYs_c0cSf1PSxGzVa2EO&index=1

#dorothycarter #folk #privatepress #psaltery #dulcimer #WailleeWaillee #1978inmusic

I guess I'm middle aged cuz this officially looks like a good time to me

(Seen in a Facebook group, their caption was "Flemish school, Concert of the Five Orders (Musical Clerics in a Garden), 15th century.")

#lute #psaltery #flute

More musical angels.
These ones come from the roof of the Santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli in Saronno, and were painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari who died in Milan on this day in 1546.
Some lovely details of instruments and music books.

#otd #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInHistory #iconography #earlymusic #gaudenzioferrari #saronno #renaissance #earlymodern #musicaliconography #histodon #histodons #lute #violin #vielle #viol #violadabraccio #harp #psaltery #bagpipe #bagpipes #musicalangel #angelmusician #angelmusicians

Listening to Franziska Fleischanderl, Il Dolce Conforto

Vivaldi's Salterio

#Psaltery #Vivaldi #FranziskaFleischanderl #IlDolceConforto #AntonioVivaldi #Baroque #BaroqueMusic @baroquemusic #ClassicalMusic @classicalmusic #NowPlaying #NowListening #HiRes

The Czech educator Jan Amos Comenius was born on this day in 1592.
These images show a selection of musical instruments, with their names and properties in English and #Latin, in a 1659 translation of Comenius' illustrated book Orbis Pictus (the world in pictures), one of the first illustrated textbooks for children.

#otd
#onthisday
#onthisdayinhistory
#earlymusic
#orbispictus
#comenius
#earlymodern
#musicalinstruments
#lute
#trumpet
#bagpipe
#harp
#drum
#psaltery
#virginals
#cittern
#flute
#shawm
#cornet
#recorder
#organ
#iconography
@earlymodern
@earlymusic
@histodons
@histodon
#history
#historyofeducation
#illustration
#histodon
#histodons
#textbook