Language of the Muses: the connection between music and Ancient Greek
by There is a long-standing and much-discussed interaction between music and language. First, there is the age-old debate of whether music is itself a language—“the universal …
Author: Tom
I am Director of Music at New College School, Oxford, one of the UK's leading prep schools. I took my BA in Music and MPhil in Musicology from Clare College, Cambridge, where I was John Stewart of Rannoch Scholar in Sacred Music. Beyond NCS, I maintain an active career in musical performance and research, specialising in the music of late sixteenth-century Rome. I am currently preparing a biography of the composer Giovanni Pierluigi 'da Palestrina' (c.1525-1594) and editing a catalogue raisonné of Palestrina's works.