How the Middle Ages Influences Music Today

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In our modern and digital age, contemporary music has many influences: heartbreak, war, even climate change. But what about the Middle Ages? Has the artistry and literature of the medieval period had an influence on music today?

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis speaks to singer and songwriter Elanor Moss - who studied seventh to tenth century literature at university - to discuss how her interest in medievalism has influenced her songwriting and whether we can see themes and imagery from the medieval world feeding into the work of modern musical artists.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:32.7	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. We're going to explore something a
1:36.7	little bit different today. I'm joined by Eleanor Moss, a singer and songwriter whose degree
1:41.0	is in English and related literature with a focus on the 7th to 10th century. So she's writing
1:46.8	medieval sweet spot here. We're going to talk about Eleanor's studies and about one piece of
1:52.0	fascinating literature in particular but I also wanted to find out how medievalism has influenced
1:57.4	Eleanor's songwriting and why we can see imagery and ideas from the medieval world feeding into
2:03.6	artist's work today. So thank you very much for joining us Eleanor. Oh no, it's a pleasure.
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