While I wait to have a good idea for a new Music 101 post—and remember, ask me your questions about music and I'll answer them!—it seems a good time to start getting into some of the preliminary research I'm doing for my dissertation. I'm in the proposal stage, so what I'm doing now is reviewing... Continue Reading →
The L’Homme Arme Tradition
L'Homme arme is one of the best known songs of the Renaissance. BBC Radio did a documentary about it called "The Smash Hit of 1453," alluding to the date Constantinople was seized by the Ottoman Turks. (1) It is a short, catchy song about how one must fear the man at arms. In the context... Continue Reading →
Katarina von Sporken
Violent Brain Fever 