The Singer Sews
A channel exploring the intersection between music history and historical costume.
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The Singer Sews
A channel exploring the intersection between music history and historical costume.
linktr.ee/thesingersews
The Singer Sews
Stay tuned for a video on Monday!!
2 years ago | [YT] | 12
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The Singer Sews
Hello, friends!
I just hit 900 subscribers, and I'm shocked, because I've been accidentally taking a break since, what? February? And my goals for this year were so ambitious...
I'm hoping to return to making CosTube videos at some point, but unfortunately for you, dear subscribers, my life has been throwing one thing after another at me. I'm preparing applications for doctoral programs in early music, and doing quite a bit of teaching and singing locally here in San Antonio, and I'm so exhausted from day-to-day life, that it probably won't be happening until December at the earliest.
In the meantime, here's something I made today. This will be one of the recordings I submit for my auditions, and it's a song from right around the turn of the 15th century.
I affectionately call this song "The Angry Bird Song," and it's one of the medieval songs I've fallen in love with. I collaborated with two strings players from the Texas Early Music Project to make this recording as part of my doctoral applications. Thank you to John Walters and Bruce Colson, who played a strange and tricky piece of music on vielles, which are precursors to the modern violin.
The story is of a conflict between the nightingale and the cuckoo. The nightingale sings a lively song, but the cuckoo refuses to sing anything but "cuckoo," and it's so morose that it doesn't fit with the other birdsong. So, naturally, the nightingale gathers up all the other birds and orders them to just kill the cuckoo and put him out of his misery if he won't join the happy song.
Here's hoping I find the energy to share more of my projects with you all!
Until that fateful day,
Naomi
3 years ago | [YT] | 5
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The Singer Sews
Stay tuned for my video release at 1:00 Central Time today!
3 years ago | [YT] | 17
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The Singer Sews
About to get to the editing phase on this project! Stay tuned. (The video won't be out Monday but I'll keep y'all updated!)
3 years ago | [YT] | 13
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The Singer Sews
OK! I can finally say with accuracy that part one of Father/Mother Christmas will be released TODAY! Sorry it was so late. The past month has been absolutely wild in my corner of the world.
4 years ago | [YT] | 18
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The Singer Sews
Coming next Monday: Making Christmas, part 1
As you might have noticed, I didn't release a video on the last Monday of November. I was working hard on our Christmas garb up until the minute we left for faire, and I want the videos to be high quality! I'll be spending time on the first of two Christmas videos this week.
4 years ago | [YT] | 3
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The Singer Sews
Y'all, I got my community tab!
Just in time to remind you that there will be no video tomorrow 😢
If you can't wait until end of November for more content, go check out my TikTok (@thesingersews) for a early peek at November & December's videos!
4 years ago | [YT] | 22
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