About the authors
Marie-Noëlle Kreilos — musician, teacher, and the author of this blog. Paléo grew out of her own path, between the classroom and the study room.
Marie-Noëlle Kreilos taught music in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) and in Germany. She founded the small medieval-music ensemble Hexacordum. For several years, this ensemble gave workshops and courses on medieval music in Alsace, Germany and Switzerland. Holding a postgraduate diploma in musicology from the University of Strasbourg, Marie-Noëlle Kreilos studied musical palaeography : the discipline that deciphers old musical writing — the very one that gave this blog its name. That taste for neumes and old manuscripts never left her : Paléo is its continuation, meant to pass it on simply.
One foot in music teaching, the other in the study of old manuscripts : this dual background gives Paléo its particular tone — that of a teacher used to making technical knowledge accessible, applied here to a thousand-year-old script.
Joël-Marie Kreilos, musician, musicologist and computer scientist. He holds a First Prize in baroque flute from the conservatoire and a bachelor's degree in musicology from the Sorbonne. He handled the technical side of this blog and contributed a critical reading of the text.
Paléo was born from the wish to share a script as beautiful as it is little-known, without jargon or prerequisites. A remark, a question ? The suggestion form at the bottom of the glossary is open.