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We've gathered together some music and video animations to take you back to the time period of our Library.

Just a little something to recreate the mood of yesteryear.

Dead Poet's Society
The Ultrapedia Library boasts many volumes of prose, poetry and references to the lives of famous writers and poets. We've drawn together some excerpts from the library and illustrated some of their works with virtual video animations.

John Keats
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Watch John Keats - read 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' The Third of the five 'great odes'
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John Keats   Grecian Urn   

Samuel Daniel
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Watch Samuel Daniel read 'Care Charmer Sleep'
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Samuel Daniel  

Edgar Allan Poe
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Watch Edgar Allan Poe - read 'The Raven'
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Edgar Allan Poe

Francis Bacon
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Watch Francis Bacon read 'Of Studies Purpose and Manner'
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Francis Bacon

William Shakespeare
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Watch William Shakespeare read 'When in the chronicle of wasted time'
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William Shakespeare

Francesco Petrarch
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Watch Francesco Petrarch - read 'Era il giorno chal sol si scoloraro'
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Francesco Petrarch  

Oscar Wilde
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Watch Oscar Wilde - read 'The Ballard of Reading Gaol'
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Oscar Wilde

Scarborough Fair - The Ballard
Scarborough Fair is an English folk song dating back to the late medieval times or Renaissance period, the time of growing cities and flowering mercantile ports.

Scarborough Fair
As the dark ages drew to a close the seaside resort of Scarborough was an important and prosperous harbour city and port for tradesmen from all over England.

Scarborough was originally known as Skarthaborg by the norman Skartha, from well over a thousand years ago.

The song was sung by Bards (or shapers) who travelled from town to town to entertain the swelling audiences. Scarborough was famous for its yearly fair — a big forty-five day trading event in August and September — to which the song title refers.

The song is written in the Dorian Mode. Read more about the Dorian mode in music and history.

Watch & Listen - The history behind the lyrics
Celtic Woman - Scarborough Fair

Read and find out more about: Cambric shirt   medieval times   mercantile ports   Bards    Dorian mode

J S Bach
Was born at Eisenach in 1685, and when ten years old (his father being dead) was left to the care of his elder brother, an organist, from whom he received his first instructions; but the talent of the pupil so completely outran the slow current of the master's ideas, that pieces of greater difficulty were perpetually in demand, and as often refused. Among other things, young Bach set his heart upon a book containing pieces for the clarichord, by the most celebrated composers of the day, but the use of it was pointedly refused. It was in vain, however, to repress the youthful ardour of the composer. The book lay in a cupboard, the door of which was of lattice-work; and as the interstices were large enough to admit his little hand, he soon saw that, by rolling it up, he could withdraw and replace it at pleasure... more...

Watch & Listen - J.S. Bach - Toccata und Fuge BWV 565
Watch & Listen - Toccata & Fugue in d minor (BACH, J.S.)

Read about J S Bach

Other Mood Inspiring music videos - Medieval Music
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