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The Central Role of the Voice in Medieval Music - Professor Christopher Page

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Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

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Professor Christopher Page discusses the central place of the voice in compositions from the Medieval era:

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

Professor Christopher Page will use his upcoming lectures to examine how song and music was woven in to the fabric of everyday life of the medieval world. One question that Professor Page will discuss is the importance of vocal music over instrumental music. In this short interview, our Gresham Professor of Music lays out the topics that this lecture will cover.

Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned performer and writer, as well as being an experienced presenter through BBC Radio. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology..

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-christopher-page

A series of lectures concerned with the place of musical sound and art in medieval imagination and experience: its relation to patterns of fear, delight and awe. The setting for the lectures will be one of the few medieval churches of London to survive the Great Fire of 1666: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn.

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

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