With all the fanfare of the Eurovision Song Contest in May this year, it is possible that many missed another European song contest that was taking place at around the same time – the Polifonia Song Contest. Organised by Polifonia, an EU-funded research initiative aimed at protecting and promoting Europe’s musical heritage, the competition sought to draw attention to the vast wealth of musical material contained in the newly launched Polifonia Portal.The competition invited musicians from all over Europe to create the ‘soundtrack of our history’ using material from Polifonia’s online musical database, including sounds as diverse as Italian church bells, Dutch organs,…
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