About Our Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music Performance

 

We are currently working on music from the 12th through the 17th centuries, including music from the British Isles, Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula. Sound files will be added soon.

 
  • Medieval instrumental dance music.
  • English, German, Italian, and French lute solos, 16th-17th century.
  • Spanish and Italian music for Baroque Guitar, 17th-18th century.
    • Gaspar Sanz
    • Foscarini
    • Santiago de Murcia
    • others
  • Duets for baroque guitar and lute.1
  • Duets for wooden keyless flute and Renaissance lute.
  • Our own arrangements of pieces for lute, guitar, recorders, fiddle, rebec, cittern, and percussion. Includes:
    • Various medieval dances for recorders, rebec and percussion, including 13th and 14th century salterellos, ductia, danse anglaise, estampie, etc.
    • Traditional English music from John Playford's collection of music of the British Isles.
  • A few modern pieces from Western Brittany that have a very early kind of sound.2
  • Sometimes we just jam using early melodies and see what happens.



1Our own arrangements, in the style of lute duets.

2Traditional dances of Brittany generally vary by geographical region--each area has a different dance type. The best introduction to the complexity of defining and mapping different dances in Brittany is Jean-Michel Guilcher's classic La Tradition populaire de la danse on Basse-Bretagne (1963).





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