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Partlow
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|  Posted 21-03-2005 at 22:31
Music must have formed an integral part in any gatherings at the megalithic sites. One major reason is probably the emotions and movement that it invoked in people. This aspect will always be important. Here are a few links to recording studios that played a big part in music history:
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Partlow
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| Posted 30-03-2005 at 17:25
Why is Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto named the most popular classical piece in Britain? And why is the fact of it being the theme of the movie "Brief Encounter" called up so. I am familiar with the Saturday program of movie music being broadcast on ClassicFM, I listen to it. Has anyone seen this movie? Is there anything significant about this movie? I guess one reason I started this stream is because certain things do register on the psyche of people. In respect of this website, it is megaliths (which may be symbolic of stability, permanance, mystery, etc.). Is there such a connection with certain musical movements?
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GAZ
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| Posted 19-04-2005 at 01:51
Your'e obviously a music nut - like me - and you do have a point in what you say, but getting back to megalithic sites for a mo ... and music - whatever stone-age music sounded like, I would imagine -would have been an intrinsic part of there life, as it is today.
There has been a few books written on the subject and I remember a tv documentry explaining in detail about acoustics and vibrations, and how they worked inside ancient man-made tomb's, which seemed to be designed specificaly for the making of music.
Haunting music - Gorecki + Mahler
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Jimit
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| Posted 19-04-2005 at 14:18
Partlow, I think you might be interested in this site... http://www.britmovie.co.uk/directors/d_lean/filmography/008.html ...as it gives a synopsis of the film "Brief Encounter" It was a typically "British stiff-upper-lip" sort of love story and the haunting music fitted beautifully. Not strictly megalithic though 
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Partlow
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|  Posted 21-04-2005 at 03:48
It's good to see music is considered (in relation to megaliths) by others besides me. The 'Alabama' websites I entered were for those who are interested in Blues' and Rock's formative period, which Alabama played a great part. Much of this early music is rooted in survivals of West African, Native American and western European traditions. I am interested in how certain harmonies and combinations of notes have survived through time. There could be many aspects to the megaliths than we, at present, are able to experience. I am always open to expansion as long as its not hysterical.
Any way, I enjoy Gustav Mahler and Gorecki also. But am still partial to the Baroque period and to Rachmaninov, Holst, Elgar, and some other composers of the Romantic and Impressionist periods. I appreciate the link to the movie site in that it does shed some light. I still have this 'bug in the ear' about how when a society is going through a difficult period, certain music is popular. I find Rachmaninov's pieces very introspective and at the same time capable of conjuring a sort of release. In consideration of this, his life was very interesting. Hope this isn't too much chatter! 
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sem
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| Posted 21-04-2005 at 21:55
Try the traditional music. American blues(and later country,as it is known) and British folk both have tunes and scales that have been handed down for centuries. American music especially has been a melting pot for every type of music from the past thousand years.
If you take one man and an instrument,plus his vocals,basically these are the sounds that would have been heard millenia ago.
My suggested listening is:-
Leon Bibb - every form of American music you care to name.
Keb Mo - Kevin Moore from Manchester but rips your heart out with his sad blues songs.
Richard Thompson - puts the most perverted and sarcastic twist on UK folk music..BUT WHAT A SENSE OF HUMOUR.
Ry Cooder - Plays American roots music better than the originals.
Give them a try Paltrow, they all play from the heart and personally I get a lot of inspiration from them.
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AngieLake
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|  Posted 22-04-2005 at 02:39
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On 2005-03-21 22:31, Partlow wrote:
Music must have formed an integral part in any gatherings at the megalithic sites. One major reason is probably the emotions and movement that it invoked in people. This aspect will always be important.
I must have missed this message in March.
I don't know if this is the kind of response you are looking for, but the Kilmartin House Trust in Argyll, Scotland, has a CD of the earliest 'music' they think might have been played by the people who created the megalithic sites in that glen.
The visitor centre there is excellent, and has a very 'hands-on' display, where you can have a go yourself with some of the instruments. The whole package - including video history of the site with this atmospheric backing music - encouraged me to buy myself a copy in 2002.
The insert in the CD says:
"The music ranges from ringing rocks to bird-bone flutes; Bronze Age horns and drums to the extraordinary sound of the Celtic war trumpet, the carnyx, specially recorded for The Kilmartin Sessions [the name of the CD] in Smoo Cave. It ends with the eerie combination of harmonic singing and Bronze Age horn, recorded in the Hamilton Mausoleum - the building with the longest reverberation in the world. It was an appropriate choice for, like the Mausoleum, this CD has its own reverberations reaching into our remotest past and our deepest sub-conscious."
http://www.kilmartin.org is the website credit on back of CD.
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Andy B
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| Posted 22-04-2005 at 14:08
I agree the Kilmartin CD is excellent. Really high quality field recordings - try it on headphones. I like the horns and the throat singing but there are some real hardcore rock-banging moments
We stock it in our online shop along with a couple of other selected music CDs.
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Partlow
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| Posted 01-05-2005 at 17:00
Thank you to AngieLake and also to AndyB.
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| Posted 02-05-2005 at 00:06
Glad I could help, Partlow.
On 2005-05-01 17:00, Partlow wrote:
Thank you to AngieLake and also to AndyB.
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| Posted 28-06-2005 at 03:38
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User not Registered | Posted 28-06-2005 at 19:42
On 2005-03-21 22:31, Partlow wrote:
Music must have formed an integral part in any gatherings at the megalithic sites. One major reason is probably the emotions and movement that it invoked in people. This aspect will always be important.
Interestingly, Aum is the vibrational signature of the Swastika.
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sem
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| Posted 29-06-2005 at 20:38
Sorry for the ignorance Mike, but would you explain this "vibrational signature of the swastika" thing.
I'm sure many other Portalphiles would also be interested in this.
Thanks.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | Posted 30-06-2005 at 06:03
I'm sure there will be a lot of musicians out there - of all sorts, who have tapped into and become part of some self-induced trance-state.
This magical experience happened to me a while ago, and I'm quite poss that I was not under any influence of mind enhancing substances.
I'm a carefull fella, prefering the natural high.
I think that I am a better musician these day's, yet, this outer-body experience has not returned to me. State of mind I guess.
And to think I was'nt even aware of DADGAD at the time.
The experience - if I can be so bold - will stay with me forever. I rose in my chair, about two feet above the ground, turning north-wards, the room moved with me, as did the walls in my room; I embraced the moment untill the ballance and one-ness in my body subsided. I could delve here.
Has anyone else gone through an experience like this?. 
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