Christopher Page

A philologist by schooling, a musicologist by proven merit, along with a performer by deep instinct, Christopher Web page integrates the many areas of his professional lifestyle being a humanist in the very best sense of the term. He once welcomed a reviewer’s comment that referred to his publication as “Sociable history lighted by its fascination with music as an important part of human being encounter.” Page’s profession in scholarly teaching and publication openly informs his existence like a performer of middle ages musics and vice versa; both donate to his lively analyses of middle ages thought, specifically that regarding music and the knowledge of music in human being society. Page’s educational credentials add a bachelor’s level in British from Oxford College or university (1974) along with a PhD. through the College or university of York (1981). While completing his dissertation on Anglo-Saxon verse forms, he started publishing content articles on the annals of musical tools as observed in middle ages text messages and illuminations, in addition to papers on efficiency practice. New University, Oxford, appointed him lecturer in Aged and Middle British (1980-1985), accompanied by the College or university of Cambridge in 1985. In 1997, Cambridge called him Audience in Medieval Books and Music; he also offered like a Fellow of Sidney Sussex University. In 1991, he was granted the Dent Medal from the Royal Musical Association for exceptional solutions to musicology. Among his magazines, three books possess held particular curiosity to music artists. Voices and Tools in the centre Age groups (1986) argues a middle ages lyric’s genre straight relates to the utilization and kind of instrumental accompaniment; The Owl as well as the Nightingale (1989) traces sociable changes concerning music and music artists in the recently “developed” condition of middle ages France, and Discarding Pictures (1993) explores the variety of twelfth to fifteenth hundred years existence when confronted with a “social myth of the center Age groups” as monolithic unity, perpetuated (based on Web page) partly by artwork historians and musicologists. Page’s ensemble the Gothic Voices has taken middle ages European culture actually closer to today’s via a rating of recording tasks and a strenuous touring plan. The recordings (backed by Page’s personal extensive program records) consist of two critically acclaimed series on types of middle ages French and British musics and period the gamut in the sequences of Hildegard of Bingen, music for the coronation of Richard the Lionhearted, and troubador/touvère repertories to public of Pierre de la Rue in the convert of the sixteenth hundred years. The group’s initial documenting (A Feather over the Breathing of God) gained Web page the to begin three Grammys for early music functionality. He has added his own abilities being a lutenist and harpist on many recordings, but in addition has used powerful all-vocal performances being a lab for his scholarly hypotheses over the absence of equipment in the functionality of certain sorts of middle ages polyphony.