Early Music for the Bowed Psaltery
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EARLY MUSIC FOR THE BOWED PSALTERY contains 30 musical compositions from the European musical tradition. The pieces were written during the Medieval, Renaissance, & early Baroque Periods -- 13th to the 18th centuries – and include solos, duets, trios, quartets, & rounds arranged for any treble instrument such as the flute, recorder, violin, but especially the bowed psaltery.
Includes: All in a Garden Green, Ballet du Roy, Bell qui tiens ma vie, Branle de l’Officiele, Branle de la Torche, Canon, Carman's Whistle, Come Live with Me, Como Poden, Fortune my Foe, Gaillarde, Gathering Peascods, Goddesses, Greensleeves, Hold Thy Peace, Hornpipe from Abdelazer, Jenny Pluck Pears, Lauda, Lord Willoughby’s, Newcastle, On This Day, Rondo from Abdelazer, Sellenger’s Round, Sterla do Dia, Sumer Is Icumen In, Unto Us is Born a Son, Veni, veni, Emanuel, We Be Soldiers Three, Where Griping Grief.
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I love this music book and was even more excited about it once I looked through the content. It has some absolutely great information as well as easy to follow sheet music.
Shows why the bowed psaltery is perfect for medieval hymns