Early Music America

A restless collective of medieval experimentalists, the Flatbush-based band Alkemie explores and shares the life-affirming and alternative perspectives to be experienced in the sounds of centuries past as they resonate with and challenge our current expectations. Locally and nationally, they have been presented by the Amherst Early Music Festival, Arizona Early Music Society, Brooklyn Public Library,

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As its name suggests, Byrd’s 1589 volume of songs titled Songs of Sundrie Natures varies widely in scoring, style, and mood. Byrd’s preface says that he is “desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke,” and he offers the book as a musical compilation “to