Carnes Tollenda – or stop eating meat – is a lost Old Hispanic chant. Recently it was restored digitally…
Category: Medieval Music
Planctus Karoli
MUSIC: Epic poetry from the time of Charlemagne was recently recorded by Ligeriana...
Monastic Authority
NEW RESEARCH: The story of presumptuous canons and a hard-nosed abbess in Poitiers...
Voices of Light
Minimalism, New Simplicity and Simple Living is reflected in the music of Einhorn: Voices of Light...
Medieval Keyboard
Medieval keyboard instruments like the clavisimbalum were popular in the 15th and 16th century...
Gardens of Music
RECORDINGS: Medieval Music inspired by gardens embalm the soul at this season...
The Tallis Scholars
The Tallis Scholars celebrates 40 years as promoters of late medieval and early renaissance music...
Early Music
NEW RESEARCH: Early Music – the leading scholarly journal – celebrates its 40th birthday...
The Medieval Garden
The Festival Voix in Alsace hosts a remarkable series of concerts theming the medieval garden...
The Violin: A Social History of the World’s Most Versatile Instrument
Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument
Gregynog Festival
Gregynog Festival presents the Tallis Scholars performing the Missa O Quam Suavis...
Seven Words of Christ – or Early Modern Spirituality
Time to revive Early Modern Sensuality? Seven Words of Christ
Richard III’s Music
Listen to a musical biography of Richard III’s life...
How to perform Beowulf?
When the famous Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heayney, took upon himself to translate Beowulf, he also made the poem a fashionable part of the medieval circuit. The wider question raised in a new book is what it takes to "perform beowulf"?
Hyperborea and the Festival Montalbâne
“Hyperborea – Music from the North” summons medieval music-lovers and performers in Freyburg this summer to take part in the 22. Medieval Musical Festival of Montalbâne.
Early Music History
The Journal celebrates its 30th anniversary ...