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Gautier de Coincy was a late 12th, early 13th century French cleric who translated into French many of the Latin miracle poems praising the Virgin and…
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On Friday's Distant Mirror hear Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass, the work credited with saving polyphonic church music. The story goes that in order to…
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The mass Se la face ay pale of Guillaume Dufay reveals a mixture of medieval strictness and Renaissance freedom, which is to be expected, written as it…
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It's a Medieval--Renaissance Pops Concert on this Friday's Distant Mirror. Allan Kelly will play all those early music chestnuts you love so well: Music…
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1580 to 1620 has been called the Golden Age of English lute music . More than 2000 pieces survive, more than double the amount of madrigals and virginals.…
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Enjoy a medieval--renaissance Christmas on Friday's Distant Mirror. Performances by New York Polyphony, A Celtic Christmas with La Nef and the Apollo…
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This week on Well-Tempered Baroque, "It's all in the Family" concludes with a look at the sons of Johannn Sebastian Bach. Tune in to enjoy the music of…
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In Elizabethan England popular music was performed by minstrels, dance bands and waits. The lyrics of poems were collected along with appropriate tunes…
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This Friday, Dr. Lewis Baratz continues his look the most celebrated of all musical families: The Bachs of Thuringia. Well-Tempered Baroque's It's All in…
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It's the music of Orlando Gibbons and William Lawes on this week's Distant Mirror as Fretwork performs consort music for viols from the early Stuart…