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Comments from Musica Antiqua's audiences

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Peter Boyce, MIT, President, American Astron. Society 

"I would like to extend a word of appreciation to you for the delightful entertainment that you and Musica Antiqua provided. We received countless compliments from our members and we would like for you to know how enjoyable the occasion was for everyone. Clearly, you all put your hearts into every performance, and your audience certainly appreciated it." Read more about Comments from Musica Antiqua's audiences

Music Antiqua performs for

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Concert Series 

Bloomfield, Creston, Dubuque, Fort Dodge, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lake View, Marshalltown, Monticello, Muscatine, Denison, Orange City, Shenandoah, Storm Lake, Okoboji, Bartlesville Oklahoma(twice), Early, Red Oak, Mt. Pleasant, Fisher Theater Matinee, St. Paul Lutheran (WDM)

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Anatomy of Illness

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Invocation to Ra - reader and percussion - Egypt (2000-1200 B. C.)

Hymn to St. John: Ut queant laxis - ensemble - Paulus Diaconus (c.774)

Two Plague Songs: 
Ein Maennlein steht in Walde - baritone, lute, hirtenschalmei 
Ring Around the Rosie - soprano, garklein recorder

Maria, Mutter, reine Maid - ensemble - Anonymous (1349)

Cantiga: Como hua moller - gemshorn - Alfonso el Sabio (1221-1284) Read more about Anatomy of Illness

Music of the Middle Ages

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As performed at the Salisbury House

The flowers of the forest - Scottish (traditional) 
hammered dulcimer, tenor recorder, rebec

Lullay: I saw - Medieval English Carol 
soprano, tenor recorder

Hymn to St. Magnus - (12th century) 
bagpipes, soprano recorder

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Pastourelle: Dehors lone pree - Anonymous French (13th century) 
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Music from Both Sides of the English Channel

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Music of the Netherlands

Het Soude - rauschpfeife, zink, sacbuts - Anon. (mid-16th century)

Psalm 92 from Souterliedekens - soprano, baritone, recorder, krummhorns - Susato (died c. 1564)

Mijn morken gaf - baritone, zink, rebec, recorder, bass krummhorn -

Ain niederlandisch runden Dantz - lutes - Neusidler (c. 1508-1563)

Ein Niderlendisch tentzlein - lutes - Judenkuenig (c. 1460-1526) Read more about Music from Both Sides of the English Channel

A Program of Medieval Music and Renaissance Italian Music

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Ut queant laxis - A Medieval Warmupby Guido d'Arezzo (c. 990-1050) 
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Translation: So that thy servants may sing the woder of thy deeds with relaxed vocal chords, 
remove all guilt from their defiled lips, St. John.

Kyrie - Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) 
soprano, organetto, harp, bell, rebec

O viridisima virga - Hildegard 
soprano, symphonia, organetto, harp, rebec

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Country Music from the Renaissance and Middle Ages

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The Pastoral Countryside

Pastorella - recorders, lute - Anon. (16th century)

Jolly Shepherd Boy - soprano, shawm - Ravenscroft (c. 1590-c. 1633)

La pastorella - alto, tenor, bass recorders - Arcadelt (c 1504-1568)

Schaefertanz - organetto, lute, harp, bass cornamuse - Susato (c. 1500-1561)
 

The Country Lass

I Care not for These Ladies - baritone, lute - Morley (1557-1602)

Un cavalier de Spagna - soprano shawm, zink - Anon. (16th century)

Bobbing Joe - dancers - Anon. (17th century) Read more about Country Music from the Renaissance and Middle Ages

Music at the Court of Maximilian

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Although the German Renaissance was not the resplendent one of Italy, the Court of Maximilian I shone with a brillance that was second to none. Music was an indispensable part of court life, and the Kaiser surrounded himself with an entire battery of musicians and first-rate composers like Hofhaimer, Senfl, and Isaac.

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Preambulum in re - Leonhard Kleber 
organ

Meins trauens ist - Paul Hofhaimer 
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Images of Women

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Woman as Oracle

First Delphic Hymn to Apollo - soprano - Anonymous (c.140 B.C.)

Woman as Virgin

Marian Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater - The Music Men - Anon. (11th, 12th centuries)

Cantigas de Santa Maria - Anonymous (13th century) 
Como hua moller - gemshorn 
O que en Santa Maria - hurdy-gurdy 
Muit amar deuemos - ensemble Read more about Images of Women

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