This week's Early Music Monday is the first Bach aria I ever learned - Quia respexit from the Magnificat!
Louise Farrenc
First woman professor at the Paris Conservatoire, paid at the same level as her male colleagues, won praise for her compositions and dipped her toes into the Early Music world... Meet Louise Farrenc!
Women of French Baroque Opera
We spend a lot of time talking about composers of early music, but what about performers (and especially the women)? Their stories are equally as fascinating and mysterious!
Evolution of Allegri
We all know the Allegri Miserere often heard today isn't what he originally wrote, but check out this video from The Sixteen which walks through all the evolutions it went through!
Mozart and Handel
There's no better way to learn than to study the work of those who came before you - it's one reason I love making editions (especially of Renaissance polyphony)!
Vincenzo Galilei and word painting
Frightening children, a lame ox, unintelligible words - clearly the sky was falling! At least, that was what Vincenzo Galilei thought about polyphonic word painting... More in this fantastic video from Early Music Sources!
Map of Women Composers
Check out this incredible resource of women composers throughout history!
Early Music or "Early" Music?
What makes a piece "early"? Is it the date of composition? What about pieces like this one that are written in the current era in an earlier style?
Ave Maria - Jean Guyot
There are many Ave Maria settings, but this one by Jean Guyot is my new favorite!
Palestrina Assumpta est Maria a5
How about a gorgeous motet by Palestrina for the Feast of the Assumption (yesterday)?