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Beautiful Music NOW - The Serpent

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Today's Beautiful Music is an introduction to an amazing 16th century instrument: the serpent! Andrew Kershaw demonstrates the instrument and explains its construction and historical use.

You can also watch a performance of music by Michel Corrette on the instrument, Sonate #1 Les Délices de la Solitude.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.