It is a great pleasure to announce that Dr. David Fallows, who is a renowned expert on Guillaume Dufay, has joined the faculty of the International Course on Late Medieval & Renaissance Music of San Marino 2019.
A challenge, a dream come true.
5 years ago “Pythagoras” – the first reconstruction of a 13th-century portative organ in modern times – was born.
The coming Med-Ren conference will take place in Basel in July 3rd-6th 2019. I will be presenting a paper on the Robertsbridge Codex and 14th-century creation of keyboard intabulation.
Last April 5th I was invited for a one-day presentation + workshop at the Conservatory in Lyon (many thanks to Anne Delafosse!) where a group of enthusiastic students received “Pythagoras” (…)
It seems it was just yesterday, and it has been a year (May 20th-21st, 2018) since the Symposium “de organis” on the Reconstruction of the High Middle Ages Organ (…)
The International Course on Medieval Music Performance of Besalú arrives to its 8th edition. This year it is dedicated to “musica instrumentalis” and specialized medieval singing.
Finally, a digital resource devoted to medieval organs! This website collects resources and grows day after day with articles, images, and videos.
The International Course on Late Medieval & Renaissance Music of San Marino is dedicated in 2019 to the music Guillaume Du Fay composed while he worked for the Malatesta families of Rimini and Pesaro in the 1420’s.
The Divine Comedy is made up of 14,233 lines grouped into 100 poems. From 1304 to 1319 Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote whilst following an introspective pathway, an initiatory journey looking for the fulfilment of self in the theatre of life.
Although they have always been studied separately, the corpus of monodic works by Jehan de Lescurel, Roman de Fauvel, and Guillaume de Machaut belong to the same genre.