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Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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  • Carmina qui quondam
  • Heu quam praecipiti
  • Tunc me discussa
  • Quisquis composito serenus aevo
  • O stelliferi conditor orbis
  • Cum Phoebi radiis grave
  • Nubibus atris condita nullum
  • Haec cum superba verterit vices dextra
  • Si quantas rapidis flatibus incitus
  • Cum polo Phoebus
  • Quisquis volet perennem
  • Felix nimium prior aetas
  • Novimus quantas dederit ruinas
  • Quicumque solam mente
  • Quod mundus stabili fide
  • Quantas rerum flectat habenas
  • Quamvis fluente dives auri gurgite
  • Quamvis se Tyrio
  • Qui se volet esse potentem
  • Omne hominum genus in terris
  • Habet hoc voluptas
  • Eheu quae miseros
  • O qui perpetua
  • Huc omnes pariter
  • Quisquis profunda mente
  • Felix qui potuit boni
  • Sunt et enim pennae
  • Quos vides sedere
  • Vela Neritii ducis
  • Quid tantos iuvat
  • Si quis Arcturi
  • Si vis celsi
  • Bella bis quinis
  • Rupis Achemeniae scopulis
  • Puro clarum lumine
  • Quaenam discors

Reconstruction

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  • Introduction to Reconstruction
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Instruments

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  • The Question of Instruments

Sequentia Videos

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  • Ensemble Sequentia
  • Benjamin Bagby
  • Hanna Marti
  • Norbert Rodenkirchen

Resources

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  • Singing Boethius's Lost Songs
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Boethius in the Classroom

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  • How to Sing a 1000-year-Old Song

Performances

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  • CD: Boethius Songs of Consolation
  • Video: Carmina qui quondam
  • Video: Heu quam praecipiti

Events

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Reviews

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  • CD Boethius: Songs of Consolation
  • Premiere at Pembroke College, Cambridge (2016)
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Project Blog

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  • Old Songs for a New Europe
  • Overlooking Instruments: on making performance practice videos with Sequentia
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  • About

    About

    About overview
    • Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius
  • Sources

    Sources

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    • Search by Manuscript
    • Search by Song
  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction

    Reconstruction overview
    • Introduction to Reconstruction
    • Case Study
    • Reading Neumes
    • Reconstructions
  • Instruments

    Instruments

    Instruments overview
    • The Question of Instruments
    • Sequentia Videos
  • Resources

    Resources

    Resources overview
    • Boethius in the Classroom
    • Singing Boethius's Lost Songs
    • Project Video
    • Text Editions
  • Performances

    Performances

    Performances overview
    • CD: Boethius Songs of Consolation
    • Events
    • Video: Carmina qui quondam
    • Video: Heu quam praecipiti
    • Reviews
  • Performing Edition
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Events

Lecture-Recital: Sam Barrett / Sequentia: Singing and Listening to the 'De consolatione philosophiae' in the Early Middle Ages

25 Oct 2024 10:00am to 11:30am

Concert: Sequentia perform Boethius, 'Songs of Consolation', Kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem (Prague)

24 Oct 2024 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Prof Barrett presents 'Newly Discovered Aquitanian Polyphony from c1100' at the series of All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music

19 Oct 2023 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Concert, Bingen (Germany): 'Monks Singing Pagans'

4 Oct 2019 7:30pm

Concert, Cologne: 'Monks Singing Pagans'

24 Mar 2019 5:00pm

Manuscripts and Music by Candlelight: Sam Barrett performs Boethian Songs at the Cambridge University Library

20 Feb 2019 4:30pm to 7:00pm

Concert, Gdansk: 'Monks Singing Pagans'

14 Dec 2018 8:00pm

Concert, Amherst College: 'Monks Singing Pagans'

7 Dec 2018 8:00pm

Sam Barrett and Benjamin Bagby on The Early Music Show, BBC Radio 3

25 Nov 2018 2:00pm

Sam Barrett on Catalunya Musica's 'Sons de l'edat mitjana'

22 Sep 2018 5:00pm

Sam Barrett on BBC Radio 3's In Tune

12 Jul 2018 5:00pm

Boethius CD Launch

22 Jun 2018

Concert, Berkeley California: 'Monks Singing Pagans

9 Jun 2018 4:00pm

Concert, Berkeley California: North American Premiere of 'Boethius: Songs of Consolation'

7 Jun 2018 10:00pm

Concert, Leuven: 'Monks Singing Pagans'

27 Apr 2018 10:30pm

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Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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