The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #93-03, Air Date: 01/18/93
The Sequentia Ensemble for Early Music tells of miracles and magic, as they recreate the original love scene from Tristan and Isolde, sing the Song of Roland, and make the time of courtly romance return to life (from a concert at the University of Maryland Olde Musicke Series).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #91-27, Air Date: 07/08/91
A sampling of music from 100-1650 A.D. by women composers whose work left an indelible mark on the history of Early Music. Composers to be featured range from Hildegarde von Bingen to women troubadours to the daughters of court poets and artists in early baroque Italy.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-11, Air Date: 03/05/07
Because of its centrality and continuity, the early liturgy of the Roman Christians is perhaps the earliest we can reconstruct—we'll hear some examples.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-12, Air Date: 03/12/07
Metz was the capital city of the Frankish kingdom, and the ancestor of the Carolingians was St. Arnulf, who became Bishop there after the death of his wife, and whose son married the daughter of Pepin I. It was the firs place Roman cantors taught Frankish cantors, and we hear an extremely rare reconstruction of this early liturgy (what we call "Gregorian Chant" was perhaps first called "Messine," from Metz).
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