This disc features vocal and instrumental music pertaining to the crusades, and the performers are the Early Music Concert of London under the directorship of David Munrow. This easily one of the best period instrument ensembles from the second half of the 20th century, and the clearly know what they are doing. Though the music is never inelegant, ...
Dance music from the medieval era is hardly thick on the ground; a complete accounting of such works only adds up to about 70 to 80 pieces, most crammed into the odd margins of manuscript sources otherwise devoted to sacred or court music. One medieval source that forms an exception to the rule is Le Manuscrit du Roi, shelfmark fonds français 844 ...
Belgian medieval music ensemble Millenarium is of the scholarly sort, basing interpretations of these little dance pieces on close study of commentaries and visual representations from the period. Indeed, the delightful paintings of musicians (apparently from a manuscript of Boethius' De Arythmetica, de Musica), many of them female, in good color ...
Dance music from the medieval era is hardly thick on the ground; a complete accounting of such works only adds up to about 70 to 80 pieces, most crammed into the odd margins of manuscript sources otherwise devoted to sacred or court music. One medieval source that forms an exception to the rule is Le Manuscrit du Roi, shelfmark fonds français 844 ...
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