Medievalists.net » Music http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medievalism and Exoticism in the Music of Dead Can Dance http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/medievalism-and-exoticism-in-the-music-of-dead-can-dance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/medievalism-and-exoticism-in-the-music-of-dead-can-dance/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2015 01:37:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=63027 In 1991, the alternative rock band Dead Can Dance released an album that caught the attention of music reviewers by constructing an aural allegiance to the Middle Ages.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/30/review-the-ballad-of-robin-hood/feed/ 0 Free Online Course on Medieval Music Begins today http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/01/free-online-course-on-medieval-music-begins-today/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/01/free-online-course-on-medieval-music-begins-today/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:42:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62202 The University of Basel and Future Learn have teamed up to offer a seven week free online course that will teach the history of musical notation in the Middle Ages, and show you how to decode medieval music manuscripts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/01/free-online-course-on-medieval-music-begins-today/feed/ 0 Music for a Captured King: Richard the Lionheart and Blondel http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/08/music-for-a-captured-king-richard-the-lionheart-and-blondel/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/08/music-for-a-captured-king-richard-the-lionheart-and-blondel/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:38:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61662 Love him or hate him, one thing you can say about England’s Richard the Lionheart is that there are some great stories about him.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/07/anne-boleyns-songbook/feed/ 0 Horn Iconography as Found in the Grand Medieval Bestiary http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/horn-iconography-as-found-in-the-grand-medieval-bestiary/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/horn-iconography-as-found-in-the-grand-medieval-bestiary/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:31:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60198 Given at the 47th International Horn Symposium, on August 4, 2015

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/horn-iconography-as-found-in-the-grand-medieval-bestiary/feed/ 0 Hildegard’s Cosmos and Its Music: Making a Digital Model for the Modern Planetarium http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/01/hildegards-cosmos-and-its-music-making-a-digital-model-for-the-modern-planetarium/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/01/hildegards-cosmos-and-its-music-making-a-digital-model-for-the-modern-planetarium/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2015 02:17:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60138 The work reported on in this talk is a collaborative effort involving forces performative, scholarly, and technological. Because of the way Hildegard describes her understanding of the cosmos in the treatise Scivias, the model unfolds in two acts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/01/hildegards-cosmos-and-its-music-making-a-digital-model-for-the-modern-planetarium/feed/ 0 Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Medievalism, Satanism, and the Dark Illumination of the Self in the Aesthetics of Black Metal http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/14/through-the-looking-glass-darkly-medievalism-satanism-and-the-dark-illumination-of-the-self-in-the-aesthetics-of-black-metal/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/14/through-the-looking-glass-darkly-medievalism-satanism-and-the-dark-illumination-of-the-self-in-the-aesthetics-of-black-metal/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:25:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59680 The upside-down world of Satanic black metal is uncanny, both familiar in its use of inverted tropes and schemes and yet completely 'other' to those on the outside looking in, including Christians and consumers of mainstream popular culture.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/14/through-the-looking-glass-darkly-medievalism-satanism-and-the-dark-illumination-of-the-self-in-the-aesthetics-of-black-metal/feed/ 0 Californication – Medieval cover version by Stary Olsa http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/06/californication-medieval-cover-version-by-stary-olsa/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/06/californication-medieval-cover-version-by-stary-olsa/#comments Wed, 06 May 2015 23:17:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58106 The Belarussian band Stary Olsa, whose video of their medieval version of Metallica's song One was a viral hit last year, have just released a new cover for the song Californication, originally by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/06/californication-medieval-cover-version-by-stary-olsa/feed/ 0 Discovering hidden music in the Bestiary of Love http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/13/discovering-hidden-music-in-the-bestiary-of-love/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/13/discovering-hidden-music-in-the-bestiary-of-love/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:34:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56811 Elizabeth Eva Leach speaks on 'Richard de Fournival Across the Disciplines'

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