Extended Play: November 2017

Here are some additional tracks to accompany the reading in the November 2017 issue. Track 1 is an example of November’s Word of the Month, bertso. Tracks 2-7 are examples of music from the transition from Renaissance to Baroque. **Error in print: The excerpt from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo was mistakenly printed as “Savall.” The real title of the piece is Toccata.** …

Portugal. The Band

With “Feel It Still,” their first hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, Portugal. The Man has won some long-deserved commercial success.