Music

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams ... William E. Shaunessey

Music has played a major role in mankind's history since ... well, since pre-history!

Think of the many cultural and sociological roles music plays. Music is an important part of weddings and funerals; religious worship is incomplete without sacred hymns; most couples have a song that they designate as "our song" that holds special sentimental value; and our heroes and heroines are immortalized in song.

And the musicmakers? Ahhh, the musicmakers. Bards, composers, and minstrels. Admired, jealously guarded, and, yes, sometimes even feared.

To all of the musicmakers, past and present, this page is dedicated.

Check out the new Teachout's Virtual Concerthall©

• The Internet Renaissance Band © 1998 by Curtis Clark, source of the most of the great MIDI files your hearing on these pages.
  

• The Classical MIDI Archive
  
• Laura's Lambent Lair is the homepage of "Women of Whimsey," a duet that performs Renaissance songs (among other things)
  
• WGMS 103.5, Washington, D.C.'s best classical music station for over 50 years

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