Tag: British Library
'The British Library’s ‘Save Our Sounds’ Program Creates Directory of UK Sound Collections
-
'Earliest Form of Polyphonic Notation Discovered on Accident on the Bottom of a Religious Portrait in the U.K.
If musical practice etymology is your penchant then a new discovery has left some scholars floored. A few lines of music scribed on an old painting has revealed, possibly, the earliest example of polyphonic choral music, where voices sing different melodies combining to make a singular composition.