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Detail from the Cambridge Songs manuscript leaf that was stolen from and then recovered by Cambridge  探花直播 Library.

First performance in 1,000 years: 鈥榣ost鈥 songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life

23 Apr 2016

An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being 鈥榬econstructed鈥 by a Cambridge researcher and a world...

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Headphones

Opinion: What your musical taste says about your personality

30 Nov 2015

David Greenberg (Department of Psychology) discusses how musical preferences are linked to thinking styles.

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Detail of one of the triumphal arches built for the entrance of James I to London in March 1603, devised by Stephen Harrison and engraved by William Kip. Photograph by Michael Fleming.

Wondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the 鈥渞efresshynge of the witte鈥?

24 Sep 2015

What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Christopher Page鈥檚 latest book 鈥楾he...

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Musical tastes offer a window into how you think

22 Jul 2015

Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be Coldplay or Slayer? The...

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Left: Mendelssohn鈥檚 1847 letter to the father of John Robert Lunn, then aged 16. Mendelssohn was excited by the young man鈥檚 musical talent, but unable to meet him. Lunn (right) never entered a career in music, but his compositions are highly regarded.

探花直播鈥淯npublished Prodigy鈥 who caught Mendelssohn鈥檚 eye

09 Jul 2015

A previously unseen letter by Felix Mendelssohn is to go on public display in an exhibition about an unrealised British musical prodigy, revealing...

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Music in the tree of life

Music in the tree of life

18 Mar 2015

Modern scientific methods for mapping the evolution of species are being applied to centuries-old hand-copied music, providing new inspiration for...

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Earliest known piece of polyphonic music discovered

17 Dec 2014

New research has uncovered the earliest known practical piece of polyphonic music, an example of the principles that laid the foundations of European...

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Mr Knight鈥檚 galliard by John Dowland

鈥楥rown jewels鈥 of English lute music go online

11 Dec 2014

Handwritten copies of scores by composers of English lute music have been digitised in a programme to make a precious legacy available to...

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What the new Whale Hall will look like once completed

Symphony of the seas: add your voice to Museum of Zoology project

11 Nov 2014

Members of the public are being asked to contribute to a symphony of the seas as part of a project to create a soundtrack for the new Whale Hall at...

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Chroma Ensemble

Kettle's Yard New Music Series 2014

22 Jan 2014

On Sunday 26 January Kettle鈥檚 Yard plays host to a dynamic programme of new Italian music to mark the start of its 2014 New Music series.

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New season of ADC shows begins early January

03 Jan 2014

From Richard III to Guys and Dolls, the ADC theatre will play host to an eclectic mix of shows in the coming months

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I Giovani e la Musica

探花直播musical ages of modern man: how our taste in music changes over a lifetime

15 Oct 2013

New research charting broad shifts in changing personal music tastes during our lifetimes finds that - while it鈥檚 intrinsically linked to personality...

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