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ROOTS concert at Trinity College Cambridge

A new educational initiative – Roots – makes music a priority

25 Mar 2019

Cambridge researchers and musicians are helping to support schools in Cambridgeshire to deliver high quality and sustainable music provision over the...

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

First performance in 1,000 years: ‘lost’ 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 ‘reconstructed’ by a Cambridge researcher and a world...

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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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Detail from the event poster.

You hymn it, we’ll play it

21 Jun 2011

An epic, 24-hour celebration of religious music will be taking place at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, this week, starting on Wednesday evening (...

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