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 ...

When it comes to evoking a sense of what medieval music might plausibly have sounded like, there are few performers who can hold a taper to Sequentia. The ensemble, led by the harpist, singer and ...

Chapter 1: The Study of Music before the Founding of the Medieval Universites -- 1.1 Musical Studies among the Greeks and in the Roman Rhetorical Schools -- 1.2 Musical Studies in Christian Schools of ...

Gutenberg! The Musical! takes a look at the skeleton of a new musical called - what else? - Gutenberg! The Musical! and asks the audience to imagine themselves potential Broadway producers who must ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...

Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...

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, ...

There can’t be many paying gigs for lute players these days. In fact, there can’t be many lute players period. So when the developer of hit strategy game Manor Lords decided he wanted authentic ...

Deck the halls with crumhorns and sackbutts, it's time for a very Medieval Christmas list of greatest hits from the 4th Century to the 16th. (Johannes Ockeghem's setting of the "Kyrie" from his 'Missa ...

Bethel High School will stage "Once Upon a Mattress," a medieval musical comedy spin on "The Princess and the Pea," March 18, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. and March 19 at 2 p.m. in the school auditorium. The ...