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Although you could order our
CD here,
here are a few pieces for you to listen to now.
These are live recordings, some at concerts, some in one of our
living rooms. You may hear people coughing, etc.
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Description
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Widmann Dances
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Erasmus Widmann (1572 - 1634)
wrote a set of dances named Musikalischen Tugendspiegel.
He named each of them after a woman:
Margaretha, Johanna, Anna, Regina, Clara, Catharina, Sophia, etc.
Here are Margaretha and Johanna played on recorders,
viola da gamba and tambourine.
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Tordion
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Most of this piece was published by
Pierre Attaingnant (1494 - ca. 1551)
in 1530.
Unfortunately, he didn't indicate the composer.
The middle interlude is another Tordion published in
Arbeau's Orchesographie in 1588.
We perform it with voices, krummhorns, viola da gamba, recorders and percussion.
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Vecchie Letrose
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Adrian Willaert, born in c. 1490 in the Flemish region of
Belgium, went to Paris to study law in the early 1500s, but
switched to music. Around 1515 he moved to Rome, where he was
selected as maestro di cappella of St. Mark's in Venice.
Thieving old crones, you are good for nothing
But setting traps around the town square.
Pull, pull on the knocker,
Thieving old crones, crazy old cut-throats.
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Le Chant des Oyseaux
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"The Song of the Birds" by Clement Janequin (c. 1472 - c. 1568).
Using voices, viola da gamba and various pieces of other
instruments, this piece is not only about birds, it imitates them!
It's a rather long piece, so we've put only a small portion of
it here.
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Il Ballerino
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An Italian song written by Giacomo Gastoldi
(c. 1550 - 1622) in 1594,
accompanied by mandolin, recorders
and various percussion instruments.
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Tant que vivrai
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Recorders usually play an octave above what is on the printed
page. In this piece, instead of the more usual configuration of
soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorders,
we use the tenor, bass, great bass and contra bass.
This way the recorders are below the solo voice, where they
should be.
The contra bass, by the way, stands over 6 feet tall
and weighs 13 pounds.
Written by Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490-1562)
in about 1528.
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Recercada segunda
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One of several Recercadas written by
Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 - 1570).
Performed on viola da gamba and mandolin.
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