The National Centre for Early Music is an educational resource for early music located in York, England. It is based in the converted and extended, Grade I listed medievalchurch of St Margaret, Walmgate.
Designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects, the Centre was opened in April 2000. It was created, with the aid of a grant from the National Lottery and partnership money from organisations such as English Heritage.
The buildings of the Centre include a performance space (in the former church) and facilities for conferences and other events and recordings. Historic keyboard instruments are available for hire.
The church building, which had been redundant for some years, was upgraded to meet the needs of varying types and size of performance as well as many alternative uses such as teaching, conferences and exhibitions. The roof has been rebuilt for enhanced acoustics, and there are baffles to allow the acoustics to be modified.
The annual York Early Music Festival is organised from the church and is administered through the York Early Music Foundation, a UK registered charity.
During the rest of the year, the Foundation promotes an educational programme based at the National Centre: events include seminars, workshops and master classes. New music is also promoted, for example there is an annual Young Composers Award to encourage composers to work with early music groups.
Early music is music, especially Western art music, composed prior to the Classical era. The term generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760), and, according to some authorities such as Kennedy (who excludes Baroque),Ancient music (before 500 AD). According to the UK's National Centre for Early Music, the term "early music" refers to both a repertory (European music written between 1250 and 1750 embracing Medieval, Renaissance and the Baroque) – and a historically informed approach to the performance of that music. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence."
Revival
Performance practice
According to Margaret Bent, "Renaissance notation is under-prescriptive by our standards; when translated into modern form it acquires a prescriptive weight that overspecifies and distorts its original openness. Accidentals … may or may not have been notated, but what modern notation requires would then have been perfectly apparent without notation to a singer versed in counterpoint".
Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (the subtitle means "Ancient Tears" in Latin) is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing 21 compositions, many of which written, arranged, or transcribed for the quartet. The title track is from Dowland's Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares of 1604.
Compositions
The album contrasts adaptations for string quartet of music from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance with 20th-century compositions. The earliest piece is by the ninth-century Byzantineabbess, poet and composerKassia; the most recent pieces are by the twentieth-century composers John Cage, Alfred Schnittke, and Arvo Pärt. Arranging and selecting compositions from ten centuries of music was intended, according to David Harrington, the quartet's founder, "to find a way of relating vastly different pieces to one time, to find a place in time where the elements meet." Harrington described the contrast between old and new music as crucial to the quartet: "There are moments when the music could have come out of the Middle Ages; there are other moments when it sounds like it's coming out of the Vietnam War, let's say. That contrast is something we've been working with for a long time." Allan Kozinn, writing in The New York Times, describes the album as a concept album in which "the distinctions between old and new are blurred, and the effect is comforting rather than disconcerting."
Gunnar Idenstam :
It was a great honor to perform yesterday, on Bach´s birthday, this concert with Swedish folk music from the Baroque period, interleaved with chorals by Bach, wonderfully sung by Jessica Bäcklund, Love Enström, Kaspar von Weber and Johan Karlström. Thanks to my fantastic co-musicians Johan Hedin , Erik Rydvall , Niklas Roswall and Ida Meidell Blylod this was a lovely and beautiful exposure of our national treasure of elegant, sensual, spiritual and apelling dance music. In the 18:th century there wasn´t any clear difference in defining what was "folk" music and what we today call "classical" music, but there was only music!
published: 22 Mar 2015
Relaxing Medieval, Middle Ages Music 10 Hours
The Best Compilation of relaxing middle ages / medieval music for full 10 hours!
Music by Kevin Macleod and Adrian von Ziegler .
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jMdNGRfKWWbu2ln2qwTvQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/richard-freeman/1494633442
published: 24 Nov 2019
How to lose your music teaching job in one year: the trial of Pietro Pontio 1566
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link:
https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/pontio
Created by Elam Rotem, April 2022.
Special thanks Giovanna Baviera and Anne Smith.
www.earlymusicsources.com
Support us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/earlymusicsources
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published: 18 Apr 2022
Early Music from Ireland and Great Britain
Humbercrest United Church presents:
Sinéad White - Soprano
Jonathan Stuchbery - Lute
Audio and Video Production by Thom Varey
www.vareysound.com
Programme
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – Opening Remarks - Melvin J. Hurst
02:32 – My Lagan Love
07:11 – Do chuirfinnse féin
11:08 – Forever Fortune
13:31 – Sleepy Body
15:45 – Fantasia
21:32 – Time, Cruel Time
25:17 – Time Stands Still
30:01 – Come Again, Sweet Love
34:28 – Credits & Acknowledgements
published: 07 Jul 2021
Early Music History: Middle Ages pt 1
The best way to learn is to teach. Some people are auditory learners and some are visual learners, so to ferment these concepts in my brain as well as any other scholar, I've created this video to help educate and inform. Enjoy!
Gunnar Idenstam :
It was a great honor to perform yesterday, on Bach´s birthday, this concert with Swedish folk music from the Baroque period, interleaved with...
Gunnar Idenstam :
It was a great honor to perform yesterday, on Bach´s birthday, this concert with Swedish folk music from the Baroque period, interleaved with chorals by Bach, wonderfully sung by Jessica Bäcklund, Love Enström, Kaspar von Weber and Johan Karlström. Thanks to my fantastic co-musicians Johan Hedin , Erik Rydvall , Niklas Roswall and Ida Meidell Blylod this was a lovely and beautiful exposure of our national treasure of elegant, sensual, spiritual and apelling dance music. In the 18:th century there wasn´t any clear difference in defining what was "folk" music and what we today call "classical" music, but there was only music!
Gunnar Idenstam :
It was a great honor to perform yesterday, on Bach´s birthday, this concert with Swedish folk music from the Baroque period, interleaved with chorals by Bach, wonderfully sung by Jessica Bäcklund, Love Enström, Kaspar von Weber and Johan Karlström. Thanks to my fantastic co-musicians Johan Hedin , Erik Rydvall , Niklas Roswall and Ida Meidell Blylod this was a lovely and beautiful exposure of our national treasure of elegant, sensual, spiritual and apelling dance music. In the 18:th century there wasn´t any clear difference in defining what was "folk" music and what we today call "classical" music, but there was only music!
The Best Compilation of relaxing middle ages / medieval music for full 10 hours!
Music by Kevin Macleod and Adrian von Ziegler .
Spotify: https://open.spotify...
The Best Compilation of relaxing middle ages / medieval music for full 10 hours!
Music by Kevin Macleod and Adrian von Ziegler .
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jMdNGRfKWWbu2ln2qwTvQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/richard-freeman/1494633442
The Best Compilation of relaxing middle ages / medieval music for full 10 hours!
Music by Kevin Macleod and Adrian von Ziegler .
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jMdNGRfKWWbu2ln2qwTvQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/richard-freeman/1494633442
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link:
https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/pontio
Created by Elam Rotem, April 2022.
Speci...
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link:
https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/pontio
Created by Elam Rotem, April 2022.
Special thanks Giovanna Baviera and Anne Smith.
www.earlymusicsources.com
Support us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/earlymusicsources
Support us by getting an Awesome T-shirt: https://teechip.com/stores/earlymusicsources
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link:
https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/pontio
Created by Elam Rotem, April 2022.
Special thanks Giovanna Baviera and Anne Smith.
www.earlymusicsources.com
Support us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/earlymusicsources
Support us by getting an Awesome T-shirt: https://teechip.com/stores/earlymusicsources
Humbercrest United Church presents:
Sinéad White - Soprano
Jonathan Stuchbery - Lute
Audio and Video Production by Thom Varey
www.vareysound.com
Programme
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Humbercrest United Church presents:
Sinéad White - Soprano
Jonathan Stuchbery - Lute
Audio and Video Production by Thom Varey
www.vareysound.com
Programme
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – Opening Remarks - Melvin J. Hurst
02:32 – My Lagan Love
07:11 – Do chuirfinnse féin
11:08 – Forever Fortune
13:31 – Sleepy Body
15:45 – Fantasia
21:32 – Time, Cruel Time
25:17 – Time Stands Still
30:01 – Come Again, Sweet Love
34:28 – Credits & Acknowledgements
Humbercrest United Church presents:
Sinéad White - Soprano
Jonathan Stuchbery - Lute
Audio and Video Production by Thom Varey
www.vareysound.com
Programme
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – Opening Remarks - Melvin J. Hurst
02:32 – My Lagan Love
07:11 – Do chuirfinnse féin
11:08 – Forever Fortune
13:31 – Sleepy Body
15:45 – Fantasia
21:32 – Time, Cruel Time
25:17 – Time Stands Still
30:01 – Come Again, Sweet Love
34:28 – Credits & Acknowledgements
The best way to learn is to teach. Some people are auditory learners and some are visual learners, so to ferment these concepts in my brain as well as any other...
The best way to learn is to teach. Some people are auditory learners and some are visual learners, so to ferment these concepts in my brain as well as any other scholar, I've created this video to help educate and inform. Enjoy!
The best way to learn is to teach. Some people are auditory learners and some are visual learners, so to ferment these concepts in my brain as well as any other scholar, I've created this video to help educate and inform. Enjoy!
Gunnar Idenstam :
It was a great honor to perform yesterday, on Bach´s birthday, this concert with Swedish folk music from the Baroque period, interleaved with chorals by Bach, wonderfully sung by Jessica Bäcklund, Love Enström, Kaspar von Weber and Johan Karlström. Thanks to my fantastic co-musicians Johan Hedin , Erik Rydvall , Niklas Roswall and Ida Meidell Blylod this was a lovely and beautiful exposure of our national treasure of elegant, sensual, spiritual and apelling dance music. In the 18:th century there wasn´t any clear difference in defining what was "folk" music and what we today call "classical" music, but there was only music!
The Best Compilation of relaxing middle ages / medieval music for full 10 hours!
Music by Kevin Macleod and Adrian von Ziegler .
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jMdNGRfKWWbu2ln2qwTvQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/richard-freeman/1494633442
For the footnotes and other extra information see the following link:
https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/pontio
Created by Elam Rotem, April 2022.
Special thanks Giovanna Baviera and Anne Smith.
www.earlymusicsources.com
Support us on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/earlymusicsources
Support us by getting an Awesome T-shirt: https://teechip.com/stores/earlymusicsources
Humbercrest United Church presents:
Sinéad White - Soprano
Jonathan Stuchbery - Lute
Audio and Video Production by Thom Varey
www.vareysound.com
Programme
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – Opening Remarks - Melvin J. Hurst
02:32 – My Lagan Love
07:11 – Do chuirfinnse féin
11:08 – Forever Fortune
13:31 – Sleepy Body
15:45 – Fantasia
21:32 – Time, Cruel Time
25:17 – Time Stands Still
30:01 – Come Again, Sweet Love
34:28 – Credits & Acknowledgements
The best way to learn is to teach. Some people are auditory learners and some are visual learners, so to ferment these concepts in my brain as well as any other scholar, I've created this video to help educate and inform. Enjoy!
The National Centre for Early Music is an educational resource for early music located in York, England. It is based in the converted and extended, Grade I listed medievalchurch of St Margaret, Walmgate.
Designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects, the Centre was opened in April 2000. It was created, with the aid of a grant from the National Lottery and partnership money from organisations such as English Heritage.
The buildings of the Centre include a performance space (in the former church) and facilities for conferences and other events and recordings. Historic keyboard instruments are available for hire.
The church building, which had been redundant for some years, was upgraded to meet the needs of varying types and size of performance as well as many alternative uses such as teaching, conferences and exhibitions. The roof has been rebuilt for enhanced acoustics, and there are baffles to allow the acoustics to be modified.
The annual York Early Music Festival is organised from the church and is administered through the York Early Music Foundation, a UK registered charity.
During the rest of the year, the Foundation promotes an educational programme based at the National Centre: events include seminars, workshops and master classes. New music is also promoted, for example there is an annual Young Composers Award to encourage composers to work with early music groups.