with 30 rare documents in facsimile, separate and loose so you can take them out of their pockets and pouches and peruse them and lose them ...
- music to move the heart
- concerts, seminars, school visits from mediæval, renaissance and folk traditions
the work of a popular historian: exciting, illuminating, relevant as never before! Text in Swedish.
- Skidfrämjandet i Nyland 1948-1998. Photos with captions in Swedish
- a delightful archive film made in 1980 , newly re-edited and with music
Text in Swedish only
David's midwinter greeting!
Ytterlennes Players
with Ytterlennes church choir
a regular visitor at Ytterlennes mediæval church
at Ytterlennes mediæval church
summer 2009, Härnösand, north Sweden
- the magic of Russian sacred music and folk-songs
Text in English, Swedish, Finnish & German
- mediæval patterns on sheepskins, including photos of a waistcoat inspired by a 15thC Book of Hours
film
A
Dozen new DVDs:
David's production, November 2006
Three
Men on the Bummel
- Jerome K. Jerome's delightful novel from 1900 about three men on a bicycle
holiday in Germany, the very worthy sequel to Three Men in a Boat,
in David's layout
"...
coupling the words and the notes lovingly together"
:
Musica Poëtica in whole-person education
- how the use of music in the 'active concert-reading' of whole-person
learning can be enhanced by an understanding of how that music was conceived.
Finding
the Sailor within you:
and a Nordic folk-boat
David's sailing adventure in the High Coast, October 2006
The
Enchanted April:
Elizabeth von Arnim's wonderful novel from 1922
in David's
layout:
A4-1col
| A4-2col
| US-1col
| US-2col
Ytterlennes mediæval church on film 1964-1980:
DVD with three films
by Gösta & Torsten Melin
Text in Swedish and English
Music for an Historic Church:
film
presented for a coach party August 2009
The
Roadside Church at Ytterlennes mediæval church 2005
- overview
- 10th anniversary
Mass in Mediæval Tone 2006:
Ytterlennes mediæval church:
film
Divina
Musica:
Musical programme at Ytterlennes mediæval church:
Photographs from the concert of the group "Divina Musica"
Mediæval Workshop:
Activities from 2005 to 2010 based around the mediæval "Roadside Church" at Ytterlennes.
Text in Swedish and English.
New
Renaissance Fonts:
- new designs from David, Rick Bradley and Karin Skoglund:
Spring 2006
La
fontografia 2006
- mediæval & renaissance models, FontLab Studio the successor
to Fotographer, a 10-minute font, workflow, Dürer & Co.: Spring
2006
Some
Thoughts on Tuning:
- a simple approach inspired by Renaissance & Baroque teachers, and
adapted for practical use today
A
Harp at Every Hearth
- a revolution in the world of harp-making has meant that now everyone
can afford a quality instrument: David plays and talks:
April 2006
Reflections from Parnassus:
a weekend amongst the elite
- playing harp and harpsichord for the academic doctors' graduation ceremony
at Umeå university, northern Sweden
Flossi-nossi:
a remarkable dictionary experience
- the Oxford American Dictionary which comes free with Mac OS X:
June 2005
"Do
Babies Have Worries?"
I got the authur's enthusiastic support for republishing on the web her
wonderful booklet, which has so much helpful common-sense to say
Fiolasten:
music on the 'nyckelharpa' (keyed fiddle)
and the art and craft of shoemaking:
Torbjörn & Mia Näsbom, Umeå, Sweden
Music
from 17thC Brazil:
samples of the group Banza
recorder, baroque violin, baroque guitar,
bandurra, machete, theorbo, tenor
at Gålsjö forest factory 2004
Text in Swedish; hymns in Swedish and English
Bjärtrå - DVD: Text in Swedish only
- 70 new demo tracks at high and low resolutions = 140 new sound files and animations
- new movies about self-esteem in the family
- a personal view of how four programmes work and don't work
- new sections on santouri in Greece
- controversies & misunderstandings including mediæval history
as seen by Mark Twain in 1880:
"Gretchen: Wilhelm, where is the turnip? Wilhelm: She has gone to the kitchen."
- a guide to the Middle Ages in northern Sweden
- lots of pictures, text in Swedish
- the fascinating area where the computer can help us with handwriting and calligraphy
updated with movies
- sounds and sights of a professional mediaeval ensemble
a simple approach to harmony inspired by Renaissance musicians,
and adapted for practical use today
As early as 1958 Isaac Asimov traced the way back to self-knowledge in a future computer-dominated society
- seven delightful pieces in frottola style, c.1500
"Affect
your Reader Precisely as you Wish"
- David's thoughts on writing
"I can't get my spell checker to learn new words!"
Spelling
Checker - using a diferent language
"I didn't think the English version of a programme could check
spelling in Swedish ..."
- extracts from Gildas Jaffrennou's out-of-print book Folk Harps (1973)
edited and annotated by David
- a CD recorded for the Swedish Association of Scientists:
David writes about the baroque pieces used in the recording.
Text in Swedish & English
