redicovered microtonal works?

Hey-
My wife told me last night that she heard some music on NPR that
was found beneath other music on some parchment by a couple of Oxford
musicologists by some new technique or other and that the performance
sounded microtonal. Has anyone heard this or about it?

John Starrett
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

If that was the same feature I heard, it was as follows:
These Oxford guys are photographing recycled parchment that ends up as
bookbindings, manuscripts etc. and by all dem dere magic techniques, get
back to the original nittygritty of what was notated before the recycling. A
lot of it is 13th and 14th century English polyphony. Not microtonal in the
sense that we, on this list, intend, although the singers did, I think,
attempt to make the major 3rds in the Landini cadences appropriately spicy.
It's an ongoing project and they've uncovered several complete pieces and of
course, many fragments. The singers were Oxford students and they did a
credible (but not truly professional) job at rendering the music, some of it
quite attractive. You could hear an English flavour all right.
Jay
At 08:44 AM 12/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
>From: John Starrett <jstarret@math.cudenver.edu>
>
>Hey-
> My wife told me last night that she heard some music on NPR that
>was found beneath other music on some parchment by a couple of Oxford
>musicologists by some new technique or other and that the performance
>sounded microtonal. Has anyone heard this or about it?
>
>John Starrett
>http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html
>
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