Joe Offer has posted the piece above, but it's not in the handy MIDIclick format. We shall see.

I've bought the Red Byrd CD with Leonin's music. I like it. (Got it on Amazon.)

kat, I'm not surprised that Hildegard got there first. Girls rule!

Q, you said "Hildegard composed some unusual material, some quite inventive, leaving scholars uncertain as to how exactly to interpret it." Don't you think that any music this old, all of which lacks time signatures, bar lines, and tempo indications (among other things)is of uncertain interpretation?

For example, I have seen reproductions of the MS of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, (12th Century Spanish) and I think that anyone who claims to be playing one of them is taking a real risk. Not that it isn't great fun to play what purports to be a Cantiga today. (There are some interesting Cantiga sites on the web.)

Anyway, you certainly know a lot about ancient music. I never even heard of a gimell before.

Interesting thing: the liner notes to my new CD of Perotin (Leonin's student) quotes an anonymous Englishman who was a contemporary of theirs. The Englishman is known as "Anonymous IV." Light dawneth.