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Music theorists help us understand how to play and analyze music, and also shed light on how music was constructed in past eras. This hour on Harmonia, we’ll explore the work of three Renaissance theorists. Read More »
We'll hear music of Francois Devienne, CPE Bach, and Frédéric Duvernoy performed in 1988 by Colin St. Martin and Richard Seraphinoff, who were students at the IU Early Music Institute at that time.
We'll hear music from the viol consort Phantasm during their 1999 U.S. tour.
Join us for arrangements of well-known Elizabethan tunes mixed with serious secular polyphony in this 2019 concert by the ensemble Antic Faces entitled "Joyne Hands - Elizabethan entertainments for mixed consort."
Psalms are an important part of both Jewish and Christian rituals, perfectly suited to intimate, congregational, and ceremonial music settings. Last week on Harmonia, we heard Latin versions of a Psalm that begins "Out of the depths I have cried to thee.” This week, we’ll explore some settings in German and English.
Psalms are an important part of both Jewish and Christian rituals, perfectly suited to musical settings of many kinds. This week on Harmonia, we'll look at Latin versions of a Psalm that begins "Out of the depths I have cried to thee.” Plus, music from a C17 French harpsichord manuscript… found on eBay of all places!
This hour, we’ll meet 3 mysteriously related, musically intricate French songs, each beginning with the words “While waiting…” We’ll also meet their common musical and poetical ancestor, which does NOT begin with those words. Intrigued?