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Tiento 1

From Orphenica Lyra Book 6, printed Seville 1554.  Miguel de Fuenllana was a Spanish composer who lived an obscure life, but published a big collection of his own and others' music in the mid-14th century. He mostly played the Vihuela, an ancestor of the guitar. I found this piece transcribed for Recorder in Erich Katz's Renaissance Songs and Dances for Recorder ( American Recorder Society Editions, G Schirmer 1967).

The Skippers' Dance

John Cooper (aka Coperario) was a music teacher and composer in the court of Charles I of England. This piece is from "Maske of the Squires", a manuscript by John Campion. My wife confiscated my usual stereo mikes to use in a project of her own, so I recorded each part in mono on the built-in microphone. That mike is less directional and picked up some room background noise.

Rondele

A simple round for STT trio.  Walter Odington was a a benedictine monk famous for science and music theory according to wikipedia. This piece is rhythmically very simple but harmonically kind of interesting. I modified it a bit by playing it 1.5 times through, sufficient to let it penetrate a little better I think.

En entrant en ung jardin

A chanson by Claudin de Sermisy.  SATB recorders

Fantasia

A four-part Fantasia from Recorder Consort 2.  SATB.

Bransle

Another bransle, this from Etienne Du Tertre, a Parisian in the mid 15th century.  SATB with tambourine.  This time I really feel like the percussion is under control.

Carmen in Re

From Four Carmina (A 4), William E Hettrick ( Sweet Pipes, 1984). An early 14th century song for 4 recorders. Played STTB.

Danse de Berger

Another susato dance, from Recorder Consort 2.  ATTB with tambourine.  Learning to do post-production right -- this has noise cancellation to cut out the evil 60-cycle hum caused by the MBR wall wort.

Carmen in Re

From a book of original Renaissance manuscripts which I cannot locate at the moment. SATB recorders. Properly noise-cancelled and edited.

Parade des Bouffons

Another Susato piece for SATB, from _Recorder_Consort_2_.   This was encoded in .wav format and then extensively hacked in Audacity before final reduction to mp3.  On headphones, the Micro-Boss powered with the stock wall wort reveals an obtrusive 60-cycle hum.  I noise-reduced that out for this piece.  You can still hear some artifacts of the noise-reduction process though.  I also boosted the volume.