Online lecture as part of the Royal School of Church Music Lunch-time Lecture Series 

Chloë tells the story of late 12th-century singers at Notre Dame de Paris. She explores how unnamed but extremely skilled singers worked together orally to develop completely new and hugely ambitious ways of creating music. She asks how we can access this fluid, oral music-making through its ‘fossilisation’ in surviving manuscripts and introduces her audience to the kinds of ‘detective’ historical methods needed to explore this music, which captivated her as an undergraduate and inspired her doctoral research.