Medieval and Renaissance Music Band
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Line of Duty is a police television series produced by the BBC over several seasons, which began in 2012. I borrowed this title in a playful, postmodern context. In fact, the duty that Nomen Est Omen has assumed is to promote medieval music, not to reduce crime. Our means are, in fact, exclusively cultural. We […]
The next picture, which was taken by our colleague Valentin Florea in the Council Tower in Sibiu, represents from a visual point of view both a composition in red and black developed along a central axis of symmetry, as well as a collective portrait. The image was selected for a future photographic exhibition made by […]
Sometimes, when we look at Renaissance portraits of young ladies and gentlemen, we are enchanted by their beauty. Beyond the physiognomic features and the elegant costumes, surely in line with reality, the distinguished characters often seem “cosmetized”. A legitimate question is whether the painters arranged them from the brush or whether they looked exactly like […]
One of the important choices that the musician has to make in the years of his formation is that between celebrity and value (acquired through study and recognized at most at the level of cultural niche), in other words, between the philharmonic and the “red carpet”, to make an analogy with the Oscars. Although the […]
The movement of historical reenactment in Romania has known a moment, in fact a window of flowering time since 2010. Unlike most European countries, where the emphasis is on shows or commercial and recreational activities (from waiters dressed in costumes bringing “medieval” food and drink to customers with smartphones in their hands and even archery […]
A close friend of ours, a hard & heavy music guitarist, looking at pictures from the Nomen Est Omen archive, noticed an aspect that we had not focused on until then, namely that the scenes we constantly appear on are large in size. Our thoughts are more on the historical vestiges in the vicinity of […]
In August 2019, Nomen Est Omen collaborated ad-hoc with two beautiful dancers on one of the hottest days of summer. Our workshop, scheduled at noon, in the Big Square, involved the presentation of four types of dances: estampie, saltarello, branle & rotta. If our instruments were at least 50 degrees Celsius, the hair of the […]