“Voices from the Drum,” a traveling exhibition featuring 20 drums and information on their role in the Osage community, closes its run at the First Americans Museum (659 First Americans Blvd.) during ...
Music in Art, Vol. 32, No. 1/2, Music in Art: Iconography as a Source for Music History Volume III (Spring–Fall 2007), pp. 93-101 (9 pages) Frame drums, percussion instruments consisting of a membrane ...
A new exhibit at the UH M.D. Anderson Library features Medieval texts. Learn more in this week's UH Moment. “‘Sacra et Profana,’ sacred and profane.” Art history professor Judith Steinhoff explains ...
The program, titled “Saltwinds and Spice” and curated by Alkemie member Tracy Cowart, drew from the Cyprus Codex, one of the ...
The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time. After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back ...
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, ...
Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...
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 ...
A bit of medieval romantic music for Valentine's Day. Syliva Rhyne and Eric Redlinger of the duo Asteria perform medieval music from the court of Philip the Good.
It is the kind of year when millions are entertained by a video of four people dancing their way to a graveyard, a coffin on their shoulders. With a raging pandemic, is it surprising that dark humour ...