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Unlocking the Music In "The Lute Player"

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Tue, 06/23/2020 - 12:13 -- ciaran

The Italian painter Caravaggio’s famous painting The Lute Player shows madrigal music in the painting.  This research paper discusses the paintings and shows how I transcribed it into modern musical notation.  The project discussed in this paper was presented at the Atlantian Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival in March, 2020.  The paper can be found on my website