“Archaeologists spend a lot of time examining the remains of distant pasts, which includes the study of rock paintings. This is largely visual work – but sometimes we can “hear” the ancient past using acoustic methods.”
The seashell’s music probably hadn’t been heard by humans for more than 17,000 years.
In Germany, a minstrel was expected “to acquit himself well as a swordsman.” Surviving illustrations tend to emphasize the bulky, formidable aspect of these street performers. But why?
Author, critic, teacher and public intellectual, he was an unabashed flamethrower who challenged conventional thinking about classical music.
A BLM placard in New York encouraged a conductor in London to discover more about this 16th-century pioneer of European classical music.
The French-American keyboard player Aymeric Dupré la Tour, of Niantic, Connecticut, has tragically died following a car accident. Dupré la Tour was driving on the Interstate in the early hours of the morning when his car collided with a tractor-trailer in the adjacent lane.
Most exciting, arguably, is the next generation of musicians who are taking tradition and quietly making it their own — brilliantly showcased over the past week by the London Festival of Baroque Music.
The baroque cellist and viola da gamba specialist passed away aged 64 on 10 February following a long battle with cancer.
#1 [Improvise] free [suelto] counterpoint on a plainsong in the bass, as well as concerted [counterpoint], showing two voices on the [Guidonian] hand and singing another.
A master of the viola da gamba and other stringed instruments, she was a central part of the early-music scene.