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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

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 ...

Teenage Engineering calls its new digital music sequencer an instrumentalis electronicum, “the ultimate, and only, medieval beat machine.” I call it coolium thingamajignus because the EP-1320 embodies ...

Star Wars, with its timeless tale about the battle between good and evil, would have enraptured audiences enjoying a mug of mulled wine in any wayward tavern along the road long ago. And John Williams ...

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