Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...
In the tumult of the 2007 holiday season, many Northwest music lovers are looking forward to a serenely contemplative evening in the 15th century. At Saturday’s Medieval Women’s Choir concert, you’re ...
Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...
‘Crucial to bringing more formalised choral singing into a secular setting was the innovation of provincial choral festivals’ Britain is known and envied worldwide as a place where choral music has ...
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, ...
A list of the musicians who've visited NPR's studios over the past few decades reads like a who's-who of classical music. Along the way, many of them have played and sung a few Christmas tunes. For ...
Buckland Abbey recreates music telling of medieval life in extraordinary discovery Almost five centuries ago a community of monks in the West Country of England gathered to sing, imploring their God ...