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Borrowing in the Baldwin Partbooks: Compositional Afterlives in the Music of John Mundy
Introduction John Mundy’s settings of Dum transisset Sabatum and De lamentacione survive exclusively in the Baldwin partbooks (GB-Och Mus 979–983). Originally a set of six, the Baldwin partbooks preserve a wealth of musical material from both before and after the English Reformation. However, the tenor volume is missing, leaving much of the repertory incomplete. Some music has concordances…
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Praiers, Pills, and Pelicles: Gregory Streamer’s Attempt to Hear the Language of Cats
Good succes of things make men ioyous Saturn is a colde olde planet. There is great cunning in due applyinng of medicins The cause of hearing The difference between voices and noyses. The hermony of heaven excelleth all other. The hermony of elemental mixtures. Chaucers house of fame. At every…
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Too Many Cooks? John Wallis on the Palate, the Passions, and the Music of the ‘Ancients’
Dr. John Wallis discusses the diminished effects of music compared to ancient times, attributing this to hyperbole and changing musical contexts.
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Like to an Almaine flute: La Primaudaye on Voice and Speach
The text explores the nature and significance of speech, emphasizing the tongue’s role as a vital instrument for communication and expression.
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A Good Voice to Beg Bacon: Two Centuries of Musings on Music and Sound
The text explores the nature of sounds, music theory, and their effects on human perception, emphasizing harmony, discord, and the physics of sound propagation.
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