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Harmonia for December 02, 2007
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "The Art of Diminution"
Instrumentalists have been admiring and imitating the voice for hundreds of years. During the Renaissance, a cornettist or violinist would have gone even further by taking a popular song and decorating it. This week on Harmonia we'll listen to examples of how instrumentalists created diminutions out of music by Palestrina, Victoria, and others.
From the transcendent sounds of Anonymous 4, to the sublime realm of Chant, to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia is drawing new listeners in unprecedented numbers to the world of Early Music.
Harmonia is a production of WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University's prestigious School of Music and the largest Early Music Institute in North America; with additional technical support from KOHM at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Bloomington's position as a center for Early Music research provides fertile ground for concert recordings and interviews with top performers and scholars in the field.
Indiana University's Thomas Binkley Archive of Early Music Recordings, an unmatched resource for rare, out-of-print, and historically important Early Music recordings, enriches Harmonia's musical offerings. Combining this unique collection of resources with commercial, private, and archival material, Harmonia host and producer Angela Mariani brings historically informed performance to today's listeners, adding evocative commentary to illustrate, inform, and entertain.
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