Tag: sing

  • Nation & World

    Medieval renaissance

    Medieval history comes to lyrical life at Harvard as musicians perform an 800-year-old Ambrosian liturgical chant recently indetified in Harvard’s Houghton Library.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    The first word on nouns and verbs

    Since humans learned to speak, they have put their words into two basic categories, nouns and verbs. Nouns denote objects; verbs refer to actions. Dictionaries of specialized words have been added by bankers, lawyers, scientists, and clergy, but this core distinction remains.

    4 minutes