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Pastime with Good Company

A famous royal catch.  SA8ATB with tambourine.  You can really get a Wall of Sound feel goin' by layering a lot of instruments.

Ah Robin, Gentle Robin

An add-on round from 1501 or so.  STB with the tenor first.

Doulce Memoire

A chanson by Pierre Sandrin, a 16th century French composer.  This involved a page turn, which I edited out in Audacity.

Fine Knacks for Ladies

A fine old Dowland tune.  This arrangement is from _The_Recorder_Consort_.  SATB.

Menuet

From _Baroque_Debut_, Maurice C. Whitney, Consort Music Inc 1975.  SAT with the alto playing an octave up.

Suite of Bransles de Champagne

Four bransles from France by Claude Gervais, a French composer who was active in Paris for about 20 years (1540-1560 or so).  SATB at a fairly quick clip, since a Bransle is an athletic peasant dance.

Tiento 2

Another tiento from Miguel Fuenllana.  See http://eelfighter.podbean.com/2010/05/27/tiento-1/ for details on this.  SSAT.

Dance

Christoph Demantus was a German composer of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.This piece was done STT with tambourine. I reprised the last couple of sections to get some more crunchy percussion in. The Recorder Book dates this dance to 1601, but I don't know how they came up with that date.

Cancionero de Palacio 445

Apparently from a famous Spanish music manuscript dated to between 1470 and 1530 or so. This is a mildly interesting 4-part choir piece played on SATB recorders.  The fun part is that it has a 2/4 section embedded in the 3/4 melody, so I got additional time playing with the metronome part of the MBR.

Almaine

I don't know if this Thomas Giles is the same as the one who was Master of the Choristers in St. Pauls Cathedral in 1585, but the time would be about right.  SSAT, probably could've used some percussion.