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The Melodic Art

BBC Radio 3
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JOHN STEVENS surveys in these four programmes the rich and unjustly neglected heritage of medieval melodic music. The talks are illustrated with hitherto unpublished and un-performed songs from manuscripts in European libraries, specially recorded by CHRISTINA CLARKE (soprano) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) DAVID MUNROW
(recorder and percussion) ELEANOR SLOAN (rebec)
JAMES TYLER (lute and cittern)
3: Popular Song and Dance-Song

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stevens
Soprano:
Christina Clarke
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Unknown:
Eleanor Sloan
Unknown:
James Tyler
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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