Music is developing in the Kingdom. There is a growing awareness of the need to get away from the harp playing image and to prove the Kingdom can produce other styles of music. Guitars and pianos, the idea imported from earth, are starting to catch on and the Queen has encouraged recitals to be held in the larger settlements. She has even attended a few.
The Council aren’t sure they approve, L’Evallier is downright sniffy about it, but the Queen’s favour means the musicians are safe. Elves have taken to the new music well. Much to everybody’s surprise so have the dwarves and sprites. Most assumed these groups’ contribution to culture was pretty limited. Musical style is mainly classical or light pop. Rock and roll is still several centuries away from coming in here.
The Queen is also keen to encourage her subjects to develop their own musical instruments. After all her subjects vary in terms of the number of limbs they have and fine motor skills so musical instruments need to reflect that. Nobody has yet taken up the challenge.
Entertainment is mainly music organized by the different species for their own kinds only and in the style that they like. This means the Queen doesn’t have to cope with a full Royal Command Performance. She merely has to sit through an elf recital, a dwarf gig and so on, much easier to cope with a lot shorter in length.
The sprites are the nearest thing the Kingdom has to clowns but given their mischief making often leads to damage being done, very few consider their antics funny. Every species watches FNN and tunes into This Week’s Royal Gossip Show, chaired by Roherum, much to the monarch’s disgust (though she is quietly stunned at just what people can find to gossip about).
Some dwarves and pixies do indulge in juggling from time to time but again tend to save their talents for their own villages. Some of the species organize their own sports teams (cricket mainly) but this is very much an amateur thing and other groups, most notably the elves, consider anything bringing you out in a sweat vulgar in the extreme. Yes that does include sex.
The Council aren’t sure they approve, L’Evallier is downright sniffy about it, but the Queen’s favour means the musicians are safe. Elves have taken to the new music well. Much to everybody’s surprise so have the dwarves and sprites. Most assumed these groups’ contribution to culture was pretty limited. Musical style is mainly classical or light pop. Rock and roll is still several centuries away from coming in here.
The Queen is also keen to encourage her subjects to develop their own musical instruments. After all her subjects vary in terms of the number of limbs they have and fine motor skills so musical instruments need to reflect that. Nobody has yet taken up the challenge.
Entertainment is mainly music organized by the different species for their own kinds only and in the style that they like. This means the Queen doesn’t have to cope with a full Royal Command Performance. She merely has to sit through an elf recital, a dwarf gig and so on, much easier to cope with a lot shorter in length.
The sprites are the nearest thing the Kingdom has to clowns but given their mischief making often leads to damage being done, very few consider their antics funny. Every species watches FNN and tunes into This Week’s Royal Gossip Show, chaired by Roherum, much to the monarch’s disgust (though she is quietly stunned at just what people can find to gossip about).
Some dwarves and pixies do indulge in juggling from time to time but again tend to save their talents for their own villages. Some of the species organize their own sports teams (cricket mainly) but this is very much an amateur thing and other groups, most notably the elves, consider anything bringing you out in a sweat vulgar in the extreme. Yes that does include sex.
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