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From: riddle@emory.UUCP (Larry Riddle)
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Subject: Re: Intro to the Renaissance
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 15:58:09 EDT
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I hope Jim doesn't mind my taking the liberty to follow-up on one
of his suggested recordings for Renaissance music, namely:

>> Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renassance with David Munrow
>> and the Early Music Consort of London

First a posssible typo correction - my copy is Angel SBZ-3810
(Jim listed it with a 2 instead of the Z)              *

Now about the recording itself. This is a marvelous introduction
to early music instruments. The two records have short compositions
highlighting the principal types of instruments in use in Europe
before ~1600.  In conjuction with the musical selections is an
illustrated book describing each of the instruments. Both the music
and the book follow the same sequence making it very easy to read
along while the music is playing.  To quote from the introduction:
  "The illustrations themselves have been chosen to demonstrate
   as far as possible the function, range and special characteristics
   of each instrument.  In the Middle Ages the accent is on solo
   pieces, sometimes with accompaniment; in the Renaissance the
   emphasis is more on the development of the complete soprano-to-
   bass consorts."

Some the instruments illustrated are:

Record I (Middle Ages)
  shawm, reed pipe, bagpipes, bladder pipes, panpipes, transverse flute
  pipe and tabor, recorder, gemshorn, portative organ, hurdy-gurdy
  clavichord, trumpet, cowhorn, mediaeval cornet, harp, lyre,
  psaltery, dulcimer, lute, mandora, long-necked lute, gittern,
  citole, rebec, fiddle
Record II (Renaissance)
  shawm, curtal, racket, crumhorn, cornamuse, kortholt, rauschpfeife,
  flute, recorder consorts, renaissance organ, regal, harpsichord,
  virginals, xylophone, cornets, lute, viol

I have enjoyed all the recordings by David Munrow and the Early
Music Consort of London. Another good one if you are a recorder
player is The Art of the Recorder, a two-record set of recorder
music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century (also on Angel
but sorry, can't remember the catalog number).

                                       Larry Riddle
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