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It’s a season of anniversaries for Musica da Camera. The five-member ensemble that specializes in medieval and Renaissance music will turn 50 on Jan. 16, and a month later, they will reach the 40-year ...

Arizona Early Music opens its new year on Saturday, Jan. 10, with a concert that takes seriously the notion of early music. The Cleveland-based medieval music ensemble Trobár is going way, way back to ...

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 ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

Being awake at 7 am on Sunday isn’t an ideal situation, regardless of whether you have yet to make your way to bed from the night before or whether you are, for some ungodly reason, an early riser. No ...

Title from container. Automatic sequence. RCA Victor: LM-6015. "The history of music in sound. Vol. 2: Early medieval music up to 1300, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes. New York, Oxford University Press, ...

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 ...