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Early music — the kind defined as being from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods — reminded Pamela Narbona ...

It’s a season of anniversaries for Musica da Camera. The five-member ensemble that specializes in medieval and Renaissance music will turn 50 on Jan. 16, and a month later, they will reach the 40-year ...

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, ...

Arizona Early Music opens its new year on Saturday, Jan. 10, with a concert that takes seriously the notion of early music. The Cleveland-based medieval music ensemble Trobár is going way, way back to ...

Continuum presents Medieval English Music. Of all the European countries, England has the least amount of medieval music available from its historic archives. On this Continuum you’ll hear the most ...

As a scholar and listener Drew Hartzell has more than a bit of perspective on the long traditions of Western music. The 83-year old retired University at Albany professor is an internationally ...

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 ...

Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux is a musical chameleon. She may be heard presenting medieval songs by Hildegard von Bingen in a cathedral, singing snappy big band favorites to honor World War II veterans, or ...

One of the surprises on the Oscar music shortlist was Daniel Hart’s score for “The Green Knight,” which is awash with medieval musical touches appropriate for a 15th-century tale of King Arthur’s ...