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Capturing Music - The Story of Notation by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Category: Film
In today s digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats before CDs, the eight-track tape, the radio, and the turntable there was only one recording technology: music notation. It allowed singers and sol ...Show more
Early Music by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Very Short Introductions
The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th cen ...Show more
The Role of the Scroll - An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Category: Art
In The Role of the Scroll, Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting scrolls in medieval history, placing them in the context of those who made, commissioned, and used them, and reveals their remarkably varied uses. Scrolls were the best way to keep ever-expanding lists, for example, thos ...Show more
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