Age of Brass
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthListening to Radio 3 this morning, I was intrigued by the following snippet re Nielsen's Helios Overture (which I only caught half of, but have just ordered from Amazon):
[paraphrase] "... featuring the lur, the oldest brass instrument in the world: lurs from the Bronze Age have been found in Danish peat bogs ..."
So they had brass in the Bronze Age then?
Actually I had no idea what a lur was (and could not even recall the actual name, just that it started with 'lu-'): but that is what teh interweb is for.
It is a funny-looking beast. Found all over Scandinavia. And it sounds quite primeval. .. bringing this story to mind.
am not werking very hard but then our shy and elusive deadline has just retreated a little further from us, and is eyeing us coyly from the end of the first week in July.
[paraphrase] "... featuring the lur, the oldest brass instrument in the world: lurs from the Bronze Age have been found in Danish peat bogs ..."
So they had brass in the Bronze Age then?
Actually I had no idea what a lur was (and could not even recall the actual name, just that it started with 'lu-'): but that is what teh interweb is for.
It is a funny-looking beast. Found all over Scandinavia. And it sounds quite primeval. .. bringing this story to mind.
am not werking very hard but then our shy and elusive deadline has just retreated a little further from us, and is eyeing us coyly from the end of the first week in July.
