me:mo episode 23
◆ My CD-debut "Bella incognita – The imagination of Marco dall'Aquila" on glossa.
◆ Pietro Aretino's pornographic sonnets
◆ Censorship in the Renaissance
◆ Pietro Aron and the Greek modes
◆ Il est bel et bon & the fallacy of a "sexless past"

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me:mo episode 22
◆ Dance and portraiture in Elizabethan England
◆ Social Networks and court society
◆ John Dowland’s dedication pieces
◆ Nicholas Hilliard’s miniatures
◆ Aristotle’s phantasmata
◆ Baroque: From Chacona to Ciaccona?
◆ Guest performance: A brand new lute song with Carine Tinney!
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me:mo episode 21
◆Interview with improvising lutenist Bor Zuljan, Geneva.
◆ The newly reconstructed "bray harp lute", according to Vincenzo Capirola.
◆ Speculations on the lute's sound aesthetic.
◆ Improvisation in the Renaissance.
◆ Francesco da Milano's "Fantasia a dui liutti" played with silver thimbles.

me:mo episode 20
◆ The Vincenzo Capirola lute manuscript.
◆ Methods of preserving music for eternity.
◆ The oldest »piano« and ornament indications in music history.
◆ What Renaissance men thought of music from the 70s.
◆ About illuminated manuscripts.

me:mo episode 19
◆CD review: graindelavoix’ »Portrait of the Artist as a Starved Dog«
◆ Cipriano de Rore and the Madrigal
◆ Vocal Aesthetics in Flanders, Corsica, Georgia and England
◆ Contrapuntal Polyphony & Point Perspective
◆ Titian’s style shift
◆ Lute intabulation: »Se ben il duol«

me:mo episode 18​
◆ The cultural significance of strings.
◆ Broken strings found in Vanitas still lifes.
◆ How to deal with a broken string, Marco dall’Aquila’s »Recercar senza canto«.
◆ Tuning as a metaphorical ceremony.
◆ Why plucked strings before 1800 were mostly double.
◆ A brand new composition.

me:mo episode 17​
◆ What Christmas means to us.
◆ – and where this feeling comes from.
◆ Piero della Francesca, Josquin Desprez, Gerard David, Arcangelo Corelli and their take on the nativity.
◆ How music transports an emotion through time.
◆ Michael Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros enstsprungen / Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming.
◆ Some thoughts on me:mo.

me:mo episode 16
◆ The woes of making Early Music for a living.
◆ Giorgione & Marco dall’Aquila
◆ What was »The End of Early Music«?
◆ And why is it making a comeback?
◆ Digital Patronage:
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