After over 30 years of research, Doctor Barret has achieved to recite the whole work but adapted to current music instruments. In 1840 a German scholar was visiting Cambridge and ripped the manuscript’s final page, which was finally found in 19982 for 142 years, its location remained unknown, fact which made it impossible to study the work as a single piece before. Sam Barret, from the University of Cambridge, has work on the recovery of ‘Songs of Cambridge’ for over 30 years Songs of Cambridge correspond to the last part of a text anthology in Latin. This particular son dates back to the 11th Century and has been recovered after 142 years being lost. An added difficulty when trying to adapt Medieval Works to current times is that the note’s tone remains unknown, it is unknown if neumes are high or low pitched. During the epoch, the memory of musicians played a decisive role as written copies of many works were not kept.
#MEDIEVAL MUSIC SERIES#
These sounds are based on the reconstruction of what medieval music sheets were: a series of neumes, of symbols which represented music. 'Songs of Consolation’ was heard a couple of weeks ago at Pembroke College’s Church in Cambridge.
A Medieval song can be heard again after 1000 years thanks to a research project which has taken 20 years to reconstruct the melody.
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