#Renaissance music

[lutes-of-the-world]

Cittern, Urbino school, probably 16th century, with soundboard from the 18th century, auctioned at Christie's

[tfblovesmusic]

Via Early Music Memes for Monteverdi-Loving Teens

[lesser-known-composers]

Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585) - Lamentations of Jeremiah I ·

Tenebrae Consort · · Nigel Short

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-17

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

[winslowleachthecomposer]

Belle, Bonne, Sage by Baude Cordier (fl. early 15th century)

[burningvelvet]

Recently discovered this Renaissance musician John Dowland and am listening to people cover his songs... obsessed...

Can She Excuse My Wrongs by Farya Faraji

Flow My Tears by Musica Ficta

Go Crystal Tears by Emma-Lisa Roux

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright James VI was a smart kid but I'm just not convinced that, at three years old, he would have been thinking "Wow this composer has masterfully treated the two interweaving treble parts in this Psalm"

[kachavashka]

A quick experiment. I just wanted to see what a renaissance style 4-part harmony would sound like on electric guitars, except I never got round to recording the bass part, so this is just a 3-part harmony.

[technician-the]

this is my bass recorder. I believe it may have been made in the 1960s, but similar instruments were made from the 1920s, until some time in the 80s.

Its a German made instrument, and has the obsolete German fingering style.

The instrument was in very bad shape when I got it. there was a crack in the foot joint, and one of the keys badly damaged. it also needed new pads and cork.

[lutes-of-the-world]

From my excellent colleague Bor Zuljan's new album, an improvisation over the Renaissance standard Fortuna Desperata.

He's playing a lute set up to buzz, a "bray lute."

We know of one early 16th century Italian lute book that mentions that it is nice to lower the string action close to the frets, so as to buzz against them.

Additionally, bray harps were the norm in the late middle ages and into the Renaissance. Their strings buzzed against little hooks.

Renaissance musicians also enjoyed buzzy wind timbres. The rackett, crumhorn, and Apfelregal are examples.

More importantly, it's wonderful to hear a musician improvising fluently in this Burgundian Renaissance style. People improvised regularly back in the day, just as guitarists and jazz and folk musicians do now.

Please support Bor by purchasing his CD!

[tfblovesmusic]

MOOD.

*the English Renaissance madrigal edition*

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[lesser-known-composers]

Francesco da Milano (1497-1543) - Lute Works

01 00:00 "Fantasia Ness 67" 02 01:35 "Fantasia Ness 41" 03 02:10 "Fantasia Ness 31" 04 02:50 "Ricercar Ness 52" 05 04:24 "Ricercar Ness 4" 06 05:08 "Fantasia Ness 81" 07 05:52 "Ricercar Ness 84" 08 06:38 "Ricercar Ness 16" 09 07:36 "Fantasia Ness 40" 10 08:30 "Ricercar Ness 10" 11 10:03 "De mon triste desplaisir (Richafort)" 12 11:46 "Fantasia de mon triste" 13 13:52 "Fantasia Ness 15" 14 15:29 "Ricercar Ness 46" 15 16:06 "Fantasia Ness 61" 16 17:01 "Fantasia Ness 58" 17 18:46 "Fantasia Ness 11" 18 20:19 "Fantasia Ness 57" 19 21:46 "Ricercar Ness 3" 20 23:21 "Ricercar Ness 2" 21 24:58 "Ricercar Ness 8"

Caius Hera, Renaissance Lute

[tejedac]

The Hilliard Ensemble Early Music (ECM): · Playlist Thomas Tallis · Perotin · Carlo Gesualdo · Walter Frye · Orlande de Lassus · Guillaume de Machaut · Nicolas Gombert, etc.

[northernlibrary]

"Lachrimae" by John Dowland

[miscellaneous-art]

Orlando di Lasso (1532-94), composer; Jean Pollet (XVI century), manuscript illuminations, ''SEPTEM PSALMI / POENITENTIALES (…)'' [4 sacred songs], 1565. © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

The Renaissance wide-ranging and prolific composer Orlando di Lasso set these four penitential Psalms to music - Psalmus VI ''Domine Ne In Furore'', Psalmus XXXI ''Beati Quorum Remissae'', Psalmus XXXVII ''Domine Ne In Furore … Quoniam'', Psalmus L ''Miserere Mei, Deus'' - in this manuscript profusely illuminated with text initials, ornamental sets, allegorically scenes from the Old and New Testaments and ancient mythology.

[letsgostealthelouvre]

This is Arion riding a dolphin, not Arion preparing to play the ukulele naked, but I’m going to pretend. 

Fun fact, Arion was a Dionysiac poet who is credited with inventing the dithyramb, a specific form of religious praise hymn. He’s more famous for being rescued from pirates by a dolphin (pictured, looking super fierce). 

[ID: An engraving of a bearded man with a wreath of laurels on his head and some pretty spectacular pecs; he is naked, straddling a creature meant to be a dolphin but which more closely resembles a serpent with a pig’s snout. He appears to be throwing some kind of rude salute at a ship in the distance; behind him is a coast with buildings rising from a hilly landscape. In his left hand, Arion holds a stringed instrument which faintly resembles a ukulele, but with a shorter neck and only three strings; there is a bow for playing it also clutched in his hand.]