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Danses médiévales»rank: 407667from: Ricercar
0ur opinion: :lt is in dance that we can find the extremely rare written descriptions of medieval instrumental music that was composed before the appearance of polyphony. The instrumentalists of Millenarium have researched these texts and, using their finds as an incontrovertible base, have reconstituted other dances from songs of various origins. ln doing so, they have also rediscovered the gestures of the original players, who had clearly developed a taste for displaying their virtuosity and their power to move ...
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Sweet Is The Song: Music Of The Troubadours & Trouveres / Catherine Bott»rank: 424257by: Bernart de Ventadorn, King of Navarre Thibaut
0ur opinion: :The songs of the troubadors and their northern French counterparts the trouvères are among the most recorded works in all of medieval music. Yet little is known for certain about how these songs were performed: what, if any, rhythm to apply, for example, and how or even whether to accompany the singer with instruments. Each performer makes different decisions, based on contemporary pictorial evidence, instinct, and simple preference. Most performances of this repertory use at least one or two ...
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Bella Domna - The Medieval Woman: Lover, Poet, Patroness & Saint - Sinfonye»rank: 357184by: Martin Codax, Richard De Fournival, Sinfonye, La Comtesse de Die, Stevie Wishart
0ur opinion: :For their debut recording (made in 1987), the ensemble Sinfonye put together a program focusing on (as the subtitle puts it) 'the Medieval Woman: Lover, Poet, Patroness and Saint.' Naturally, Sinfonye includes 'A chantar m'er,' the only lyric by a female troubadour (the Comtessa Beatriz de Dia) to have survived with a melody; they also include two examples of the chanson de femme, a genre that, though written by a man, depicts a female narrator lamenting the loss of ...
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Manuscrit du Roi (c. 1250): Trouvres & Troubadors - Ensemble Perceval»rank: 871065by: Raimon Jordan, Guiot de Dijon, Peire Vidal, Jaufre Rudel, Conon de Bthune, Audefroi le Bastart, Guillaume le Vinier
0ur opinion: :For their debut recording (made in 1987), the ensemble Sinfonye put together a program focusing on (as the subtitle puts it) 'the Medieval Woman: Lover, Poet, Patroness and Saint.' Naturally, Sinfonye includes 'A chantar m'er,' the only lyric by a female troubadour (the Comtessa Beatriz de Dia) to have survived with a melody; they also include two examples of the chanson de femme, a genre that, though written by a man, depicts a female narrator lamenting the loss of ...
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