[HN Gopher] Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will b...
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       Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250
       years later
        
       Author : saikatsg
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2023-11-14 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | happytiger wrote:
       | Reminds me of the work of Philharmonia Baroque. Their concerts
       | are period music on period instruments and at times they play
       | recovered pieces like this.
       | 
       | https://philharmonia.org/
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       | It's amazing to imagine how much of human history was never
       | preserved.
        
         | fsckboy wrote:
         | > _It's amazing to imagine how much of human history was never
         | preserved_
         | 
         | period instruments in this case made me fear that the orphans
         | were future _castrati_ , but thankfully that piece of history
         | was not preserved. Turns out this was an orphanage for girls,
         | _putte_ , who were in fact trained to sing, and they are
         | depicted in the painting. (the term _putto_ , boy", was used to
         | refer to male cherubs)
        
           | tomcam wrote:
           | > (the term putto, boy", was used to refer to male cherubs)
           | 
           | I grew up in a Latino neighborhood, and there's a word
           | pronounced like that that definitely didn't mean cherub
        
             | mc32 wrote:
             | In Italian a double T is pronounced as two Ts so it would
             | sound different. Of course it may sound homophonous to
             | many.
        
         | ulizzle wrote:
         | Much of human history hasn't been preserved or has been
         | suppressed
         | 
         | What's amazing about the Romans is that theirs was and how many
         | primary sources still exists.
         | 
         | That's why I keep my mind open on Atlantis and psychic
         | phenomena and other conspiracy theories
        
           | jprd wrote:
           | Well said! Troy alone is a great example.
        
           | WalterBright wrote:
           | > What's amazing about the Romans is that theirs was and how
           | many primary sources still exists.
           | 
           | Because they had writing and used it.
        
           | WalterBright wrote:
           | No psychic phenomena has ever survived the scientific method.
        
       | huytersd wrote:
       | It's so cool that an artist took the extra time to precisely
       | paint the score on a wall.
        
         | fsckboy wrote:
         | I agreed... but turns out the musical score was already
         | available in a library in Montecassino
         | 
         | https://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id...
        
       | JoeDaDude wrote:
       | But (pun intended) surely I'm not the only person reminded of
       | this piece:
       | 
       | https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/bosch-butt-music-garden-ear...
        
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