The University of Basel, Switzerland has invited absolutely anyone and everyone to a free, seven-week, online course on the history and philology of music notation. Squiggles, squares, slashes, dots ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...

Before radio turned out pop hits left and right, paper and pen advancements in the 1300s led to an increase in song notation. Graeme Boone, director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ...

Music that hasn't been heard for 1,000 years has been reconstructed from a Medieval musical notation technique lost for centuries. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

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