It has become obvious that a written blog is WAY to difficult for me to keep up with, so I will be making some changes. I have decided to begin migrating to video on YouTube. The reasons for this are simple: creating video content may help get my project to interested parties, the written format… Read more

It’s been a while since I posted, but I have been diligently listening and exploring the works of Renaissance composers and I have a lot to share! First, it never dawned on me that the work of these composers would be almost exclusively sacred Christian music. In thinking about it, and considering the historical context,… Read more

I’m back from a summer hiatus, where things were way too busy to worry about my project. While I wasn’t posting anything new, I was listening and continued exploring medieval music and I discovered that I had the same issue as I had with ancient music: there isn’t much original work to listen to. There… Read more

I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking into the history of Gregorian Chant, and I have found the same frustration with it’s early history as I did when exploring ancient music: there is little diffinitive documentation to inform me. Because of this, I think I’ll just explore different chant collections and when I find… Read more

I originally envisioned spending a few months studying and diving into ancient music. However, after spending the last month going through what I could find for ancient music, I have discovered that there isn’t that much concrete music to listen to and study. While there are lots and lots of recordings out there to listen… Read more

I had originally conceived of this project as a time to truly ‘wander in music’, but it is becoming very apparent that I am going to need to map out what I am doing in some way so that there is some semblance of reason behind it. I realize that it was pretty naive to… Read more

I have been listening to mostly ancient Greek music or music of an origin in the Mediterranean. It has me wondering how I can faithfully explore the true origins of music. I plan to narrow my focus, at least for now, to Western music (music from the Western hemisphere). It does make me wonder if… Read more

I’m just getting started with this journey. I plan on beginning with ancient music. My first sample was with Seikilos Epitaph, one of the first known pieces of music ever. It was found on a pillar in Greece and dates back to between the first and second century BCE. Read more