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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

An anonymous undated Italian tune played at the 2009 Winter Music Festival in Atlanta. SATB. My first attempt at multiple meters using the "rhythm" feature of the Micro BR to change the metronome at the appropriate spot.

Another almain by Thomas Lupo. Arranged for SSAT

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).

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.