#prince mud

Oh anon, did you ever fall into a rabbit hole…

So, it all started about a year ago, when I developed a slight preoccupation with watching videos of Medieval and and Renaissance dancing on YouTube. In the course of this, I came across a video that immediately made me message Kylie and say “omg, they made a dance video about Quentyn Martell’s adolescence! ”

This video, in fact:

Ms. Kylie agreed that this was indeed a humourously accurate representation of a certain aspect of a certain prince’s characterization and we had a good laugh. And it’s not just the poor boy’s awkwardness in this video; it’s that the three girls spinning around him are clearly Gwyneth Yronwood and the Drinkwater twins.

But you see, Kylie is of a musical bent. She understands key signatures and other things that are mysterious to me. So when she was perusing Medieval and Renaissance dancing videos of her own, she found another with the exact same melody, which she sent to me saying “it’s the Quentyn theme again!” Then she found another. At some point she posited, “how many variations of this theme are there?” and set out to find them.

And she did find them. I believe her current playlist contains 89 versions of this same tune, called, very creatively, Saltarello II. This includes Prince Mud on recorder, Prince Mud on lute, Prince Mud on the accordion, Prince Mud with many drums, Prince Mud with a metal band, Prince Mud played on a seriously out of tune piano, Prince Mud played on a Jew’s Harp… This is not made better by the fact that she keeps recording her own variations too.

We have all your intro and outro needs for quite awhile.