First Performance in 400 Years for Medieval Passover Music
Toronto Jewish High School Choir Revives Lost Tunes
Whose Music is it Anyway? How we Came to View Musical Expression as a Form of Property
By analyzing the economic and legal structures governing music making in Western Europe from the classical period in Greece through the Renaissance, the article shows that the law first granted some exclusive rights in the Middle Ages, when musicians’ guilds enjoyed the exclusive right to perform music in medieval cities, but that the concept of music as a form of property was not established until
Troubadours and their heritage in the edges of Europe – Singing and rapping experiences of being in a minority in Southern France and in Sámiland
What is common to these artists is the way how they define and express their belonging to their own ethnic group. The characteristics of their ethnic identity 2 are above all else language, home territory, and history.
Gregorian Chant, the Greatest Unison Music
I speak simply as a teacher of a choir that has labored for many years and as an ardent though humble student of the great musical literature of Georgian Chant.
Medieval Mummers are this year’s holiday hit – so says The Onion
The must-see hit of the holidays is a group of medieval mummers, who are going door-to-door singing old-fashioned ballads and acting out jovial plays in return for mugs of ale and gold pieces.
‘Synge we now alle and sum’: Three Fifteenth-Century Collections of Communal Song
The manuscripts British Library, Sloane MS 2593, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1, and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation.
Words and music in communion: an analysis of Guillaume de Machaut’s “Le Lay de la Fonteinne” in cultural context
In this thesis, I shall attempt to define and then analyze the multiple elements present in Guillaume de Machaut’s “Le Lay de la fonteinne,”especially those elements that encapusulate the medieval myth of secular divinity.
Regency Medievalism and the Early-Romantic Guitar
Professor Christopher Page, a celebrated musician and musicologist, will be coming to the University of Bristol on Thursday to give a lecture, entitled ‘Regency Medievalism and the Early-Romantic Guitar’, which will consider how the guitar, so favoured by amateur musicians among the nobility and gentry by 1830, came to be involved with a developing interest in the Middle Ages during the Regency period.
Postmodern Middle Ages: Medieval Music at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
The reduction of the Middle Ages to a decorative function has nothing to do with the Middle Ages and everything to do with our era: the Middle Ages have become part of the vocabulary of our time—they have become present in the twentieth century. Why is this so?
Stanford scholar finds the origins of Western poetry in troubadours’ songs
Stanford Assistant Professor Marisa Galvez has written a book about medieval songbooks, pointing to troubadours as the models for modern poets. The poem…
Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments
Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments Adelman, Beth Early Music America (Fall 2005) Abstract The Atlakvida (The Lay of Attila), an 8th-or early 9th-century…
Medieval Music Literature
Medieval Music Literature Christensen, Thomas (University of Chicago) THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC, March (2011) Abstract Literature on music in the Middle…
New Relationships in Old Music: Is there a Connection Between the Music of Medieval Spain and the Music of the French Troubadours?
New Relationships in Old Music: Is there a Connection Between the Music of Medieval Spain and the Music of the French Troubadours? Dirks, Christine…
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) and Her Music Drama Ordo virtutum: A critical review of the scholarship and some new suggestions
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) and Her Music Drama Ordo virtutum: A critical review of the scholarship and some new suggestions By Eckehard Simon…
Madonna Bellina, ‘astounding’ Jewish musician in mid-sixteenth-century Venice
Madonna Bellina, ‘astounding’ Jewish musician in mid-sixteenth-century Venice Harran, Don Renaissance Studies Vol. 22 No. 1(2007) Abstract Around 1550, the Venetian playwright and…
The origin of the Town Waits, and the myth of the watchman-turned-musician
The origin of the Town Waits, and the myth of the watchman-turned-musician By Richard Rastall Paper given to International Guild of Town Pipers…
A concordance for an early fourteenth-century motet: Exaudi melodiam/Alme Deus/TENOR revisited
A concordance for an early fourteenth-century motet: Exaudi melodiam/Alme Deus/TENOR revisited By Elizabeth Eva Leach Published Online (2011) Introduction: In 1970, Jürg Stenzl…
A Gregorian manuscript in the Ian Potter Museum of Art
A Gregorian manuscript in the Ian Potter Museum of Art Martyn, John R.C. University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 6, June (2010) Abstract In about…
The Aquitanian Sacred Repertoire in Its Cultural Context: An Examination of Petri clavigeri kari, In hoc anni circulo, and Cantu miro summa laude
The Aquitanian Sacred Repertoire in Its Cultural Context: An Examination of Petri clavigeri kari, In hoc anni circulo, and Cantu miro summa laude Recek, Andrea…
Messiaen and plainchant
Messiaen and plainchant By Jason M. Hardink PhD Dissertation, Rice University, 2007 Abstract: This paper discusses the varying levels of influence that Gregorian…
Music Associated with Santiago and the Pilgrimage
Music Associated with Santiago and the Pilgrimage Pederson,E.O. Perspectives on the Camino: A collection of essays on the Camino (2007) Abstract The Medieval…
French Secular Music of the Late 14th Century
French Secular Music of the Late 14th Century Apel, William (University of North Carolina) Medieval Academy of America (1962) Abstract The present publication is…
Etiology of the Dancing Plague
Etiology of the Dancing Plague O’Neill, Daniel InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall (2005) Abstract The phenomenon of dancing mania (also…
A sixteenth century bardic poem composed for Seán Mac Conmara, Lord of West Clann Chuiléin
In this paper, Luke McInerney examines the late 16th century bardic poem Créd fá seachnaim síol Aodha? composed by Domhnall Ó Maoilchonaire for his patron Seán Mac Conmara, Lord of West Clann Chuiléin.
Muzyczna panorama średniowiecznego Krakowa
Muzyczna panorama średniowiecznego Krakowa Bebak, Marek (Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) Kwartalnik Studentów Muzykologów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Nr. 2, (10/2008) Abstract Kraków jako ośrodek życia kulturalnego średniowiecznej…