Like Chick Corea’s forays into storytelling, this isn’t just an album consisting of songs but one made up of melodic threads that connect the roles and varied movements. —John Ephland, Downbeat “I ...

Minimalism is defined by Merriam-Webster as "a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity." Musically speaking, this translates ...

There can’t be many paying gigs for lute players these days. In fact, there can’t be many lute players period. So when the developer of hit strategy game Manor Lords decided he wanted authentic ...

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, ...

The page of The Consolation of Philosophy once stolen from The Cambridge Songs Cambridge University Library Something unusual happened at the Pembroke College Chapel in Cambridge, England, over the ...

Medieval religious music is often perceived as being simple, and not particularly flashy or lavish. It often had a function that goes beyond simply being pleasant to listen to, says a University of ...

Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...

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 ...