Historical Performance at Texas Tech

PM: Worlds of Dance: A Terpsichorean Evening with the TTU Vernacular Music Center. Featuring the TTU Early Music Ensemble, the Celtic Ensemble, the TTU Ragtime Ensemble, and the World Music Ensemble, assisted by the Tech Set-Dancers. Music and dances from Irish, English, African-American, Mediterranean, Polynesian, and South American traditions. For information and reservations, contact christopher.smith@ttu.edu or visit http://ttuvmc.org. This is a family-friendly event, free and open to the public, celebrating the mission of the TTU Vernacular Music Center.

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9 PM: Dancing with Mr Darcy: A Jane Austen Evening with the TTU Vernacular Music Center. Cotillion & Cold Buffet; Music by the TTU Celtic Ensemble and Early Music Ensemble. English Country Dances demonstrated by the ensembles; guests invited to participate. Candle-lit buffet at 10:30pm; coffee service at midnight. Formal/period dress requested.

This is a fundraiser for the TTU Vernacular Music Center.

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Early Music from England: medieval songs, dance tunes, and beautiful sacred music of Tallis and Byrd, presented by the TTU Early Music Ensemble under the direction of Angela Mariani.

A noontime concert with choral music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, performed by members of Texas Tech Early Music Ensemble at St. Paul-On-The-Plains Episcopal Church.

On January 15th we welcomed Benjamin Bagby and Norbert Rodenkirchen of the world-renowned medieval ensemble Sequentia to the Legacy Events Center in Lubbock, where they performed their program "Fragments for the End of Time." Ben Bagby also guest-lectured at the first meeting of Prof. Mariani's Medieval Music Seminar.

Benjamin Bagby is one of the world's foremost scholar-performers of medieval music. The combination of singing, storytelling, harping, and sheer magic that he brings to his performances are legendary in the world of early music. Norbert Rodenkirchen is a master soloist and improviser on a variety of early flutes. Their concert program was a collection of dramatic, beautiful, and powerful medeival songs and tales exploring apocalyptic visions of the End of Days and the Last Judgement.  The historical instruments used by Bagby and Rodenkirchen included reconstructions of Germanic harps (based on 7th century instruments from Oberflacht, near Stuttgart), an early medieval triangular harp, and copies of medieval transverse flutes (including a flute made from a swan’s bone, based on an 11th century instrument unearthed near Speyer).