Dorian Discovery

DIS-80109

Songs and Dances
of the
Middle Ages

Sonus
James Carrier: shawms, recorder, harp, saz, oud, psaltry, gemshorn, percussion
Hazel Ketchum: voice, saz, lute
John Holenko: chitarra, saz, psaltry, oud, recorder, percussion
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Presented here is a variety of secular music from the middle ages. There are songs of love and chivalry, worship and pilgrimage; and there is music from dancing.
Dance music of the period has come down to us in just a few precious manuscripts. Presuming that we do not possess all of the dance music of the 13th and 14th centuries, we have fashioned dances and purely instrumental interpretations of some originally texted material. The dances contained in the Italian source (listed as Add. 29987 in the British Library) are justly famous and it has been suggested that they are perhaps a form of chamber music for listening as well as dancing.
James Carrier - Sonus

[1.] Danca / (Improvised)
Lamento di Tristano / Italian (14th c.)
Istanpitta Gaetta / Italian (14th c.)

Gallicia
[2.] A Virgen que de Deus Madre / Alfonso X (13th c.)
[3.] Quen a omagenta / Alfonso X (13th c.)
[4.] Se ome fezer / Alfonso X (13th c.)
[5.] A Virgen mut groriosa / Alfonso X (13th c.)
[6.] Ay Ondas / Martin Codax (13th c.)

Tedesca
[7.] Der kuninc Rudolf / Der Unverzagte (13th c.)
[8.] Loihere risen / Wizlaw von Rügen (14th c.)
[9.] Sic mea fata / Carmina Burana No. 116
[10.] Palastinalied / Walther von der Vogelweide (ca. 1170 - ca. 1230)
[11.] Chanconeta / Anon. (14th c.)

Songs from the Llibre Vermell of Montserrat (Spanish, 14th c.)
[12.] Stella splendens
[13.] Mariam matrem
[14.] Inperantz
[15.] Los set gotex
Cuncti simus
[16.] Polorum regina

Chevalerie
[17.] Hocket In seculum / French (13th c.)
[18.] Can vei la lauzeta mover / Bernard de Ventadour (d. 1195)
[19.] Quant je voi yver / Cloin Muset (ca. 1200 - ca. 1250)
[20.] Comment qua moy / Guillaume de Machaut (?1300 - 1377)
[21.] Dame ne regardez pas / Machaut
[22.] Reis glorios / Giraut de Bornelh (12th c.)
[23.] Estampie real / French (13th c.)

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