Music of Renaissance Italy from the time of the Sack of Rome, 1527
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Madrigal: Trist' Amarilli - five voices - Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-1545)
Chanson: Douce memoire - tenor and bass recorders, two sackbuts - Pierre Sandrin (c. 1490-c. 1561)
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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)
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)
pipe and tabor
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)
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)
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
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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
Heroes and Villains - Saints and Sinners
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L'innamorato - soprano, soprano recorder, lute, tenor and great bass krummhorns - Gastoldi (c.1550-c.1622)
Hymn to St. Magnus - ensemble - (12th century)
Hymn to St. John: Ut queant laxis - ensemble - Paulus Diaconus (c.774)
Cantigas - Alfonso X (13th century)
Como hua moller - gemshorn
Nas mentes senpre teer - hurdy-gurdy
Muit' amar deuemas - ensemble
A Middle Ages and Renaissance Hit Parade
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Allemande: The Honeysuckle - rauschpfeife, zink, lizard, sacbut, krumhorn, serpent - Holborne (died 1602)
In the Merry Month of May - soprano and alto recorders - Youll (fl. 1608)
Have you seen but a white lily grow? - soprano, lute - Anonymous (early 17th century)
Greensleeves - bass and great bass recorders - Anonymous (16th century)
Sir John Smith, His Almain - lute - Dowland (1562-1626)