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How did music sound 350 years ago?
Tonight we will journey back in time through music. We will
start in Spain of the 1540s with distant echoes of the
Renaissance, then experience the dawning of the baroque in
Venice with Marini's Romanesca of 1618. We then travel up
through Austria - Innsbruck, Vienna and Salzburg with music
from the courts of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors, finally
ending up with variations on John come kiss -- likely to
have been played in the town house of a London merchant.
The sounds you will hear played in the ears of 17th century
Spanish, Venetian, Austrian and English people. The music, our
instruments and style of playing date from the period, so all
you have to do is sit back, relax, and give your imagination a
free rein!
| Diego Ortiz (1510-1570, Naples) |
Spanish gambist and composer of the High Renaissance;
wrote a famous treatise for viola da gamba in 1553 |
Recercada Prima Sobre 'Dolce Memoire' |
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| Dario. Castello (Early 17th
century, Venice) |
Composer, leader of wind ensemble, and musician at St.
Mark's, Venice |
Sonata Prima (1621) |
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| Biagio Marini (b. Brescia 1587, d. Venice 1663) |
Italian composer and instrumentalist from an
established Brescian family, from 1615 violinist at Saint
Mark's, Venice |
Romanesca (1618) |
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| Alexandro Piccininni (Bologna 1566-1638) |
Italian lutenist, composer and writer on music;
plausibly claimed to have invented the archlute, the first
extended-neck lute in the 1590s |
Ciaccone for solo Lute |
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| Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi-Mealli Innsbruck c.1620-69 |
Italian composer and violinist, among the
instrumentalists of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria at
Innsbruck when his opus 3 and 4 were published in 1660 |
La Bernabea (1660) |
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| Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
(c.1620/3-1680 Vienna) |
Austrian composer and violinist, the leading Austrian
composer of instrumental music before Biber |
Sonata Unarium Fidium |
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| Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1664-1704 Salzburg) |
Austrian violinist and composer of Bohemian birth, the
outstanding violin virtuoso of the 17th century and a
first-rate composer |
Sonata Representativa and Passagalia from
"The Mystery Sonatas" (1676?) |
12 and 9 |
| Thomas Baltzar (1630 Lubeck-1663
London) |
German Violinist trained in the Italian manner and
employed as a highly paid chamber musician by Queen
Christina of Sweden in Rome before Settling in England in
1655. Here he astounded the English by his virtuosity both
on the violin and with the beer mug |
John come Kiss
from The Division Violin containing a collection of
Divisions upon Several Excellent Grounds for the
Violin, published by John Playford, London 1684
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