Harmonia Early Music: Specials

Series produced by WFIU

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One-hour programs of early music, Harmonia casts new light on music of the distant past.

From the sublime realm of Chant to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia, a weekly 59-minute radio program, brings the music of these earlier periods to life for radio audiences, as performers of today cast new light on the music of the distant past.

Harmonia is hosted by early music scholar and performer Angela Mariani and is a production of WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana, in conjunction with Indiana University School of Music's world-renowned Historical Performance Institute, with additional technical support from KTTZ at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Harmonia brings historically informed performance to today's listeners, adding evocative commentary to illustrate, inform and entertain.

For syndication information, please contact LuAnn Johnson at wfiuftp@indiana.edu.


Additional Files

27 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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This hour, Harmonia explores the word "Noel" through music from the middle ages to the early baroque. Celebrate the season with this special, eclec...

Bought by KTTZ, KRPS, KRPS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WUFT and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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An hourlong program of baroque music of Mexico, including works by Gaspar Fernandes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, and more. Perfect of Hispanic He...

Bought by KUAT


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with Christmas chant settings, music featuring angels, and more!

Bought by WHQR, WUAL, KRPS, NPR Illinois, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A Saint Nicholas miracle legend: The dowry for the three virgins, depicted by Gentile da Fabriano, (c. 1425, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome)., Credit: (Wikipedia)
An hour-long program of early music, celebrating Christmas from a variety of traditions, including the original tunes of two well-known carols, me...

Bought by WUAL, KTTZ, Tri States Public Radio, KWIT, KTTZ and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
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An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with festive music from 17th- and 18th-century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia perform...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KWIT, High Plains Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNIJ and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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We’re celebrating the holiday season with Nativity music from the late Renaissance to the early 17th century in Europe, performed by the musicians ...

Bought by Tri States Public Radio, Maine Public Radio, KWIT, WNIJ, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Special fundraising episode for fall 2019 (or anytime really, it's not season or year specific).

Bought by KUCO, WNMU-FM, and Public Radio East


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 55:53
  • Purchases: 3
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“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” We’ll catch an early music fright listening to scary sounds for Halloween…but...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! On this holiday edition of Harmonia, we’re going outside – not into ...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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For over twenty years, Harmonia has been your musical time travel companion, helping you explore, century by century, some of the past's most exqui...

Bought by KUCO and KUCO


  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 42:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Harmonia Fall 2020 Funder Use segments as needed, though please air segments 1 and 8--the opening and the closing credits. Thanks!

Bought by KUCO


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 52:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Fundraising program, with Intro, Conclusion, and 11 segment from which to choose.

Bought by WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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8 segments for fundraising.

Bought by WVTF and KUCO


  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:04:53
  • Purchases: 2
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There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Tired of jingle bells yet? This time of year, we are surrounded by Christmas music. On this special holiday edition of Harmonia, join us for someth...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WILL, KRPS, North State Public Radio, WVIA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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We’re heralding in the holiday season with an extended devotional prayer—or is it a party?—called Las Posadas. This Mexican Christmas tradition dat...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WCNY


  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
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The longest and darkest of nights, the Winter Solstice has been observed across cultures with rituals and feasts celebrating the warmth of communit...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01