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The thumbscrew is a torture instrument which was first used in early modern Europe. It is a simple vise , sometimes with protruding studs on the interior surfaces. Victims' thumbs, fingers, or toes were placed in the vice and slowly crushed.
It is founded on a digital archive of images of European medieval and early to high-Renaissance polyphonic music ranging from complete manuscripts to fragments. [4] The collection, created by the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London , [ 5 ] includes metadata for all manuscripts from 800 to 1550 A.D., and most of those ...
The group specializes mainly in Medieval music. Sequentia focuses particularly on music with texts, specifically chants and other stories with music, such as the Icelandic Edda. They are interested in the interplay between drama and music, and sometimes do partially staged performances, such as that of Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum. Bagby ...
In Extremo (Latin for At the Edge; abbreviated InEx or IE) is a German Medieval metal band originating from Berlin.The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instruments with historical instruments (such as bagpipes, harp, hurdy-gurdy and shawm).
If you haven’t yet come across video clips of the ... The custom goes back at least to medieval times, with Sweden’s King Erik XIV notoriously dying in 1577 after being poisoned with arsenic ...
Leaning into the male gaze that permeated all aspects of early 2000s music video imagery, Christina Milian performs for a group of spectators in small black leather outfits, hitting complex ...
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 979,000 million concurrent viewers, [54] and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 56.7 million views in its first day. [55] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in two days and 14 hours. [56]
Out on 1 August 2008 via the band owned label Pica Music, Cantus Buranus II was released., [3] It is a new orchestral recording of songs from the medieval manuscript "Carmina Burana". The Berlin-based act created a composition for orchestra, choir and a medieval ensemble and recorded the CD and DVD live in the Museum Island in front of 5,000 ...