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Reis Glorios A Cappella Arrangement

Statement of Intent: 
Experimentation and innovation are the way of the troubadours. In medieval times, their poems and melodies exemplified beautiful works that would impress listeners and inspire future artists. Troubadour music, though very innovative in its time, has endured years of the development of music in terms of theory and performance. In the present day, performance and interpretation of these songs with new methods has been questioned, and as a result, interpreters have had to defend their works. 

The Presence of the Past: bringing back to life Bosch's butt song

Amelia, a music major at Oklahoma Christian University recently discovered, while looking at The Garden of Earthly Delights, the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, a partition written on the butt of one of the infernal characters. Amelia decided to transcribe the song based on her knowledge of Gregorian chants. She mentionned that she assumed the second line of the staff was C, since it is common for Gregorian chants for this era.

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