The Hexachord Mutants

Welcome to our blog. We are performing musicologists. That means we do more than read and write about music, music history, musicology, and other things associated with musicology, ethnomusicology, historical performance practices, music theory, and, yes, music education, including educational outreach about music. We can show you as well as tell you what we're doing. Seems like a lot, but it all falls under the rubric, "just another day in the life of a Hexachord Mutant."

You can read the performer's bio of one Hexachord Mutant here.

As scholar-performers the Hexachord Mutants specialize in different areas. But within the overarching aspects of these areas our interests intersect. Medieval music, traditional music, women and minorities in music, improvisation, transmission of material across time, cultural boundaries, and through different media, and educational outreach, to name a few. That seems like a lot of common ground between two people with such different interests, but a cursory look at the common ground reveals that it consists of timeless themes.

So, where else but at Hexachord Mutants can you find discussions on music set to the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, music of Arab Andalusia, the British Isles, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops?

And in case you were wondering, we really know how to mutate hexachords.

N.B.: There are more than two of us out there.