Were the Shaggs born 600 years too late? Here’s reader Freddie Lenzel, writing in response to my post on the bizarre late-medieval composition Fumee fume par fumee: To me, it sort of sounds like The Shaggs from the Dark Ages. But seriously, it’s really interesting. Greetings from Spain, love your blog. And I […] Codex Chantilly: the electrifying page-turner that blew the lid off the perverse musical excesses of the late Middle Ages! NOTE: I am a known perpetrator of musical hoaxes, but this isn’t one of them. This bizarre composition really is over 600 years old. As Marsellus Wallace once quipped: “I’m’a get medieval on your […] |
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