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Gather every Wednesday to rummage through music history’s wondrous, mystical, and neglected corners, unearthing forgotten stories, strange texts, and enchanted fragments of song with Stef Conner. The Imaginary Song Hunt is a monthly adventure into the lost, half-remembered, and beautifully mysterious corners of music history. Much of the music we explore survives only in fragments – cryptic manuscripts, patchy evidence, inherited traditions, and folklore. We often can’t know exactly how the old songs sounded… but it’s great fun to make an educated, imaginative guess. That’s what the Hunt is all about: using real historical clues to spark creative reconstructions, new performances, and playful musical detective work. Each month unfolds across four or five Wednesday sessions: Week 1 – Main Episode (YouTube & Podcast): Interviews with experts, manuscript deep-dives, and my own attempts at wrestling ancient evidence into fresh musical id
Lotos Lab hosts The Imaginary Song Hunt, a music show with 5 episodes published.
The Imaginary Song Hunt, Episode 5, July 2026 This episode of Imaginary Song Hunt is on the trail of the amazing but very fragmentary papyrus containing the oldest Christian hymn for which a melody survives. We chatted w
The Imaginary Song Hunt, Episode 5, July 2026 This episode of Imaginary Song Hunt is on the trail of the amazing but very fragmentary papyrus containing the oldest Christian hymn for which a melody survives. We chatted w
In this episode of Imaginary Song Hunt, we learn about the life and music of Sappho with Reading University’s Professor of Greek, Ian Rutherford. Who was Sappho and where do we find the details of her biography? What is
In this episode of Imaginary Song Hunt, we learn about the life and music of Sappho with Reading University’s Professor of Greek, Ian Rutherford. Who was Sappho and where do we find the details of her biography? What is
In this episode of the Imaginary Song Hunt, we go hunting for Scottish Canntaireachd – the practice of singing Pibroch (the musical tradition of the Great Highland Bagpipe). Piping maestro, Lotos Lab’s own Barnaby Brown
In this episode of the Imaginary Song Hunt, we go hunting for Scottish Canntaireachd – the practice of singing Pibroch (the musical tradition of the Great Highland Bagpipe). Piping maestro, Lotos Lab’s own Barnaby Brown
In this episode of Imaginary Song Hunt, we continue our search for a lost songbook from the court of Charlemagne. Medievalist and codicologist James Freeman joins us to explore a deceptively simple question: if this lege
In this episode of Imaginary Song Hunt, we continue our search for a lost songbook from the court of Charlemagne. Medievalist and codicologist James Freeman joins us to explore a deceptively simple question: if this lege
Most of the songs people have ever sung are lost... In this episode of Imaginary Song Hunt, we go looking for one of the most tantalising missing sources of all: a lost songbook from the court of Charlemagne. We asked me
Most of the songs people have ever sung are lost... In this episode of Imaginary Song Hunt, we go looking for one of the most tantalising missing sources of all: a lost songbook from the court of Charlemagne. We asked me
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