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Classic Who "The Masque of Mandragora" Parts 3&4 Early Access! (Patreon)

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2022-12-30 14:00:04
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Classic Who "The Masque of Mandragora" Parts 3&4 Reaction

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Anonymous

Thank you for another great reacttion. I like this story on many levels. For the extra look round the Tardis, for the mix of historical and sci-fi in a way that worked, for the great script and in particular for what a great setting it was. This is a very gothic horror style era of classic Who which I really love as this season was the first one where I'd become conciously aware of what I was wacthing. From memory, I found the stories in this season to be terrifying (but fascinating) as I was only around 5 at the time this originally aired! I think in answer to your question, they say that the Brethren are driving out the villagers, so they probably only killed some of them while the rest got away! The Target books written for each televised story often have extra passages to exaplain vague parts of some scripts. See you next time!

Josef Schiltz

A fine start to the season. I thought that you'd enjoy the masque, Jess. The music played during the 'knees up' was 'Basse-danse La Brosse by Pierre Attaingment - 1494-1552 - from Le Banquet du Roy. Sadly, I cannot locate who were the musicians in this case. It could have been played by The Early Music Consort conducted by David Munrow, who also provided the music for the BBC production of The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R. The former production had amongst its cast Patrick Troughton as The Duke of Norfolk, his first role after leaving Doctor Who, being in rehearsals for it the following week. I have Munrow's version of Basse-dance La Brosse on record somewhere in storage. I haven't played it for years and I'm curious if it is having heard the piece again. One of the troubles of moving. Things get packed and boxed up! There is a version of the piece on YouTube however - just in case anyone wants to hear the music minus all the screaming and yelling! This story is also the first time that the language translation aspect of the companion's connection with the Doctor is mentioned.

Anonymous
>>98534786

Many thanks for the info on that music piece. For many years I've wondered whether it was specially composed for this story or was an actual piece of music composed in the time period this was set in. Part of me thought it was probably a tad too ambitious for anything the radiophonic workshop could compose in the relatively short timeframe needed for this story to be produced, but it wasn't credited, so that's really useful to know. It becomes something of an earworm every time I hear it!

Josef Schiltz
>>98534786

There are pieces that are quite similar to each other. What I will try and do is double-check on that. The frustrating thing is that I do know that piece, but all my records of period music are packed away. Worse still is that I no longer have a record player. That I shall have to fix! - or I will have to rely on an aging memory of music I used to listen to all the time. I've tried to check online, but there is no data on any of the normal Whovian sites. That's the problem with having niche interests. Too neurodivergent!!

Josef Schiltz
>>98534786

GOT IT! It is Attaingnant: Basse danse La Brosse - Tripla - Tourdion! I may not have a record player, but I have a tape player and it's on one of my tapes. Oh Christmas!!! Even better, it's also on YouTube so you can get your earworm sated.

Anonymous
>>98534786

Many thanks for working out what that was. I checked out the first tune you listed on Youtube and found a live performance of it. The arrangement is a little slower than the verion we get in this story but I loved it. Will be sure to check out the other for the full earworm affect!