The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time. After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back ...

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...

At first, Brian F.G. Katz ’90 didn’t believe his eyes. Flames were towering above Paris’ centuries-old Notre-Dame Cathedral, tearing massive holes in its wood-and-lead roof. As the inferno raged ...

2020 has given us a lot: a new Beyoncé visual album, Tiger King, an unprecedented and woefully mishandled global pandemic. It’s also given us #bardcore, a recent viral music trend which reimagines pop ...

The TEAMS Medieval Music in Context series seeks to publish editions, translations, and studies of medieval music-theoretical treatises and literary texts with significant musical engagements, ...

Based on the stories that have been passed down, life was brutal in the medieval ages. Tales from that era depict a time of suspicion and danger, when unseen forces could devastate life for everyday ...

Neo-Medieval is a term used by modern-day musicians who perform medieval music in a purely contemporary style. One thing this could mean is the possibility of using contemporary instruments and not ...

Unlike our corporeal selves, music doesn't die. It gets passed on from generation to generation, century after century, keeping its magic alive. This magic is what musicians from the University of ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

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