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memo episode 05:
◆ Preparations for a concert in Worms.
◆ The famous musical doctor Felix Platter from Basel.
◆ Interpreting incomplete musical sources.

◆ A "reconstruction" of Pierre Attaingnant's Bransle Poictou by Hopkinson Smith and my contribution to it.
memo episode 04:
◆ Warfare and music?
◆ Clément Janequin's song "La Guerre" and Marco dall'Aquila's arrangement.
◆ The Battle of Marignano, 1515.
◆ The "Battaglia" genre.
◆ Jimi Hendrix' "Machine Gun" and how war changed.
◆ Giovanni G. Kapsperger's battaglia for the pope, 1640.
memo episode 03:
◆ CD review: Dolci Sospiri by United Continuo Ensemble.
◆ ​La Folia – "the Spanish folly".
◆ Andrea Falconieri and cultural exchange in 17th century Naples.
◆ Velázquez and the Caravaggists.
◆ "The Devil's Son in Law" and how he was defeated with a pair of violins...
memo episode 02:
◆ Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, and its reception.
◆ A piece of music I wrote based on that painting.
◆ Leonardo's notebook and why he believed that "music should be given no other name than the sister of painting".
memo episode 01:
◆ A very special musical manuscript that I've been working with lately.
◆ How early music is often misinterpreted.
◆ A piece from said manuscript, the "Birdcage Fantasia" and my interpretation of it.
◆ The musical symbolism of songbirds in art.

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