Mediaeval Baebes

NPR

Published May 19, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT

A group of young women of gothic sensibility have banded together to make music based on lyrics and poems from the Middle Ages. On Weekend Edition Sunday, guest host John Nielsen talks with two of the Mediaeval Baebes about their latest album, their love of dead languages and the Dorian scale.

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