Welcome to Early Music Month 2017!
With more than 240 registered partners and 80 events and counting across the United States and Canada, Early Music Month 2017 is officially underway.
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“Mozart’s Jupiter”: A Portrait of His Style
In his poem, Samuel J. Stephens muses on the creative process, including a challenge Baron Gottfried van Swieten puts before Mozart to rearrange Bach preludes and fugues. As Mozart says, “I’ll have to re-write this whole prelude batch / And risk something awful if they don’t match.”
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French City Soundscapes Full Of Joie De Vivre
What The Musical Sounds of Medieval French Cities: Players, Patrons, and Politics shows is the exquisite diversity of how public “fanfare” was sponsored by individual cities and coordinated by civic ordinances with more private musical practices.
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Fresh Takes On Seven Vivaldi Cello Concertos
The album should put to rest the notion that Vivaldi wrote one concerto five-hundred times: Guy Fishman finds all that is individual about each of these works.
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Early Music Titan George Houle Has Died At 89
Houle built the early-music program at Stanford University and guided several generations of performers and scholars. He believed it was necessary to understand the rhythms of Renaissance and Baroque dances in order to play them well.
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