The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-12, Air Date: 03/11/19
A recently discovered Italian Trecento manuscript, music from 1300, and four centuries of chant from the Birgittine Order.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-17, Air Date: 04/17/17
Cyprus, late medieval Poland, and 17th century Scotland.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-16, Air Date: 04/07/08
Music books collected by great humanist thinkers are a treasured window into the musical life of the Renaissance--this week, another Musiques Suisses project gives us music from the book of the great Basel legal philosopher (and music lover) Bonifacius Amerbach (1495-1562).
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