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Old Music Monday: The Fasch Clan

Yep, I’ve had a little break from blogging recently, mostly doing a lot of writing and working and other fun creative things.  But let’s get back to business, shall we? Everyone who has studied even a smidgen of music has heard about the Bach clan.  Johann Sebastian and his son…

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Old Music Monday: Blow Northern Wynd

I’ve been busy the past few days getting another Renaissance English History Podcast episode researched, written, recorded, and posted.  I’m always getting emails and facebook messages asking me what the music is that I use in the intro.  So I decided to do my Old Music Monday on the intro…

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Old Music Monday: Christmas Edition

This week the Old Music that I’ve been listening to has centered around Yuletide, specifically a hyperion recording of the Sixteen from 1987 called Christmas Music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.  As usual, Hyperion doesn’t work with Spotify (grrrr) so I also have been streaming Christmas with the Tallis Scholars. …

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Old Music Monday: The Agincourt Carol

While browsing on youtube this weekend (I love that sentence because it implies long childfree days spent clicking from one interesting program to the next) I found this 2013 BBC documentary from David Starkey, the most fabulous British historian (and who puts on a fabulous show in the 1980’s Channel…

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