Ancient chants heard again
p2pnet.net News:- One wonders how, and when, the Big Four Organized Music family, Warner Music, Vivendi Universal, Sony BMG and EMI, will try to claim copyright dibs on an amazing musical score dating back centuries.
An illustrated, 450-year-old Belgian manuscript at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia holds choral chants written between 1554 and 1555 and by next June, it’ll have been restored and Australian singers will perform its songs of worship at Halifax’s St Mary’s Basilica.
"It’s going to be really exciting to have a first-rate performance from this manuscript," the Canadian Press has Dalhousie University music professor Jennifer Bain, who will analyzing the notation and transcribe it for modern singers, saying.
She’s been helpd by Neil McEwan, who leads the group of singers that will perform the chants from the Christ Church of St. Laurence in Sydney, Australia, says CP.
Also See:
Canadian Press – Rare manuscript to get modern retelling, August 14, 2006
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