Come play music written by kings and clowns, Ladies and lawyers, dance masters, doctors, and troubadours. Welcome to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Creativity flourished throughout the times that produced writers, Artists, and scientists such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Galileo. That inventiveness is evident in the imaginative and eloquent music in this collection. Among the melodies are a Portuguese troubadour’s "Song for a Friend" written almost 800 years ago, John Dowland’s "Midnight", silenced from the mid-1600's until the discovery of Margaret Board’s Lute Book in 1970, and a beautiful and haunting song written by a Scottish Lady. There are over 40 tunes in this beautiful collection.
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A book for the beginner to advanced player,
By Fantazy (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This book is an interesting anthology featuring 41 pieces which can be played without accompaniment, and ranging through all difficulty levels, though I found most of them to be easier to play after listening to the CD and knowing the tunes by heart.Some melodies have slightly odd or changing tempos while they are played, and having a CD is of great help to understand the tunes and how they are to be played. Most of the melodies are recorded with accompaniment, and on the music sheet the chords are indicated if you are fortunate enough to have someone play with you who can read chord symbols.
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I am satisfied & pleased with the product.,
By Rhoda Blaauw (Kalispell, MT, US) - See all my reviews
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Received the product in good condition. However, the CD was missing, but the distributor compensated for that satisfactorily. I like the music in this book, tho' it is a bit challenging, with having only 6 months of flute lessons. There are some nice arrangements here for those who like renaissance music. The degree of difficulty in the pieces will depend on the skill/experience of the player.
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Great for learnig a little too mournful throughout,
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Although this is really helping me with articulation and phrasing, and the player's tone on the CD is really what I needed as a model, and all in all it's a wonderful CD, everything sounds very mournful, independent of the key. Not much zip in even the equivalent of a song that would be considered uptempo. A bit offputting, but then one can concentrate on mimicking or at least learning from the tone. And the CD really helps with the phrasing, which I don't have an ear for on this type of music.Still wish it would be not so so sad--on the entire CD. But all in all, wonderful to learn from.
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