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Concert Program

A sampler of Medieval and Renaissance music: motets, secular songs, and dances

Thursday, March 10, 2005 @ 12:30 pm / SJSU Listening Hour Concert Series

Ecco la primavera                                      Francesco Landini (1325-1347)

·        Italian ballata (secular song)

Domino                                                        Anonymous (c.1200)

·        Organum of the Parisian Notre Dame school, performed instrumentally

Selections from the Llibre Vermell:         Anonymous (14th cent.)

1. O virgo splendens          4. Polorum regina omnium

2. Imperayritz de la ciuitat ioyasa             5. Cuncti simus connentes

3. Ad mortem festinamus

·        Songs in praise of the Black Virgin of Montserrat, Spain, in French ars nova style

Je me complains piteusement                 Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474)

·        Burgundian style ballade (secular song) for three equal voices

Alma redemptoris Mater                           Johannes Ockeghem (c.1430-1495)

·        Early Netherlands style motet

Bergerette, sans roch                               Tielman Susato (c.1500-1561)

·        Dance published in the Netherlands by one of the earliest printers of instrumental music

Rompeltier                                                  attrib. to Jacob Obrecht (1452-1505)

·        Polyphonic song, written in Dutch, from the Odhecaton A, performed by a loud consort of instruments

Scaramella va alla guerra                         Josquin des Prez (1440-1521)

·        Secular song, written in Italian, by one of the most prominent Netherlands composers

Dy katzenphote                                          Anonymous (c.1460-1480)

·        Instrumental piece from the Glogauer Liederbuch, a German song collection

Two canzoni villanesche:                          Giovane da Nola (c.1510-1592)

1. Madonna nui sapimo bon giocare       2. Tri ciechi siamo

·        Neapolitan style villanelle ('peasant songs') written for the Carnival season

Un sonar de piva (lirum bililrum)             Rossino Mantovano (fl. c.1550)

·        Secular song in Italian provincial dialect with a background of the piva (bagpipe or crumhorn)

De los alamos vengo                                 Juan Vasquez (c.1510-c.1560)

·        Spanish polyphonic song, with a simple popular song in the tenor voice

Earl of essex galiard                                  John Dowland (1563-1626)

·        Instrumental version of the English lute-song, Can she excuse my wrongs

This merry pleasant spring                       Anonymous (late 16th cent.)

·        English consort song

Kolenda dance carol                                 Anonymous (c.1540)

·        Polish instrumental dance

Entlaubet ist der walde                             Ludwig Senfl (c.1492-1555)

·        German tenorlied (cantus firmus in the tenor voice surrounded by multiple polyphonic lines)

Ein guter wein ist lobenswert                  Orlando di Lasso (c.1532-1594)

·        Netherlands style polyphonic song, written in German

 

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