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Divine Inspiration
Two grad students blogged their way through a monumental musicological work.
Two grad students blogged their way through a monumental musicological work.
This is the full version of the image we are using for this blog’s Medieval Music header.
The Taruskin Challenge 
This story is so charming. It reminds me a lot of many musical origin stories around the world. Many cultures – perhaps even a majority – believe their music to be divinely inspired. The Western paradigm has come to mean individual composers writing music, but it’s fascinating to remember that early on, our Western tradition had an origin story in line with those for Indian ragas and Native American ceremonial songs.