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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Unusual Music Week: Now That’s A Deep Cut: Music Scholars Bring Back “Lost” Songs From 1,000 Years Ago
Description: This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about music that sounds a little different. In this episode from April 2020, music scholars at Cambridge University studied musical manuscripts without modern notation and reconstructed what they would have sounded like. Plus: in 1982 Key West, Florida declared independence from – and war on – the United States. For not very long.
First performance in 1,000 years: ‘lost’ songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life (Cambridge University)
That Time the Florida Keys Tried to Secede from the US by Dropping Conch Fritter Bombs (Vice)
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