After six long months, and with the help of a computer, Patrick Dittamo was able to bring the Missa ad te levavi by Bartolomé de Escobedo, to life.
K-State student bringing music history to life, transcribing 500-year-old manuscript Read More »
The musical dimension of ancient tragedy was long given up for lost, but a performance of Euripides’s Herakles at Barnard College, staged from April 4 to April 6, showed how much is being recovered, thanks to recent archeological finds and painstaking research.
Euripides, with Notes Read More »
We still lack the technologies to re-create the sound of historic spaces that have been transformed, or destroyed. But recent advances in recording, signal processing and artificial intelligence are bringing us closer.
Notre Dame can be rebuilt, but its unique sound may be gone forever Read More »
This video focuses on a fascinating source from 1562: Giovanni Camillo Maffei, a Napolitan doctor, philosopher, and a musician, was asked by his patron to explain to him how the human voice works, as well as how can one learn to sing diminutions without a teacher.
With all the Baroque music that we teach beginning violinists, doesn’t it make sense to teach them something about Baroque performance practice?
Rachel Barton Pine: Young Students Thrive in Early Music and Baroque Ensembles Read More »
