Continuum: The Gradual Rise Of Instrumental Music

By Milton G. Scheuermann Jr.

Published October 19, 2014 at 5:59 AM CDT

This week on Continnum Milton Scheuermann and Thais St. Julien present instrumental music of the medieval through the early Baroque periods.

The three sections of the program are: Transcriptions & Reductions; Music To Be Played; and Music For Dancing. Performers include Ensemble de Violes Labyrinto, The Broadside Band, recorder player, Marion Verbruggen, and lutenists, Paul O'Dette and Andreas Martin.

The music is from the CD, Harmonia Mundi — Century 10, from the ten CD set of Early Music on the Harmonia Mundi label.

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Milton G. Scheuermann Jr.

Milton has been the co-host (with Thais St. Julien) of Continuum since 1976. He is a true New Orleanean, born on Mardi Gras day, attending P. A. Capdau Grammar School and Warren Easton High School. After completing the five year program of the Tulane School of Architecture in 1956 he was drafted into the Army. After a two year stint in the combat engineers in Germany he returned to New Orleans to work with the architectural firm of Goldstein, Parham & Labouisse, becoming an associate in the firm of Parham & Labouisse after Mr. Goldstein’s death. He was appointed University Architect for Dillard University in 1972 and retired from that position in 2002.

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