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Kate Lingley 龍梅若

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I'm writing up program notes for my chamber group's madrigal concert, which reminds me how my sense of historical time is inextricably embedded in Chinese history, as I can't help thinking of Janequin, Marenzio, Weelkes, and the lot of them as middle Ming composers.

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Ming songs? 🤔

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若's avatar Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social
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Josquin and Shen Zhou were rough contemporaries (Shen was about a generation older). The Chinese chronology helps me keep European history in sequence, but on consideration I think there are lessons from the other direction, too, specifically lessons from poetry:

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