Links: Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, Iberian Renaissance Polyphony, and Hildegard von Bingen “Vision”

Early music links of note. (Click on the news organization to read more.)

• Purvis takes over instrument collection (Yale News): William Purvis, faculty member at Yale, takes over the directorship of one of America’s finest musical instrument museums.
• Beyond Victoria (Gramophone): Andrew Mellor describes the beauty of Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance polyphony.
• “Vision,” the story of Hildegard von Bingen, a renaissance nun in Medieval Germany (Rome Reports): Released in 2009, the film will soon be available on DVD.

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