Title: Renaissance dance
Description: Ensemble for Renaissance Music and Dance Cortesía aims to create the mood, grace and elegance of an evening at a Renaissance court with its programme of music and dance. Their selections offer diverse musical and dance styles from a range of countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, England and Slovenia. The dancers and musicians are dressed in immaculate period costumes.The ensemble (recorders, gamba, harpsichord, percussion, and voice) is synchronized beautifully with the dancers' movements. The richness of the dancing performance is in the details: the lightness of step, the fluidity of arm movements, the carriage of the head, and the expressiveness of the dancers' faces. The passion of the Ensemble Cortesía is to breathe life into Renaissance music and dance for contemporary audiences. The approach of the ensemble Cortesia to the interpretation of music and dance is based upon research, study and reconstruction of original written records. With special attention and devotion they perform works of art composed by authors whose artistic activity was connected in the past with the territory of contemporary Slovenia. They wish to present the European culture of the Renaissance period to selected audiences and -- in that context -- to emphasize and treasure their own music and dance heritage.

Title: Piffaro, the Renaissance Music Band, Epiphany Vespers, Encor
Description: Piffaro, The Renaissance Music Band, Epiphany Vespers Encore, The Crossing Choir conducted by Donald Nally, composed by Kile Smith, video by DoNBrewerMultimedia

Title: some Renaissance Music
Description: Sorry for the bad audio quality. My new laptop is quite noisy... Some glitches in the second song. Sorry about this too. Espagnoleta - Gaspar Sanz Toy - Francis Cutting Played on my Ohana Sk-35 soprano ukulele with aquila strings.

Title: renaissance music #2: "sì dolce è'l tormento"
Description: Different versions of the same tune. Diverse versioni della stessa melodia. SI' DOLCE E''L TORMENTO Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi dal "quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze", 1624 excerpts from: - Nguyên Lê: "Sì dolce è il tormento" (Angel Quartet's album "Metamorfosi", 1998) - Angelo Branduardi: "Sì dolce è il tormento" (album "Futuro antico III, Mantova: la musica alla corte dei Gonzaga", 2002) - Uri Caine: "Sì dolce è il tormento" (live Umbria Jazz 2000) - Rinaldo Alessandrini: "Sì dolce è'l tormento, madrigal for solo voice" (album "Le Passioni dell'Anima", 1999) - Paolo Fresu: "Sì dolce è il tormento" (Angel Quartet's album "Metamorfosi", 1998) - James Bowman: "Sì dolce è'l tormento" (album "Italian Arias & Cantatas", 1987). Lyrics: (branduardi) sì dolce è il tormento che in seno mi sta ch'io vivo contento per cruda beltà... nel ciel di bellezza s'accreschi fierezza et manchi pietà che sempre qual scoglio all'onda d'orgoglio mia fede sarà... (alessandrini) la speme fallace rivolgami il piè diletto né pace non scendano a me e l'empia ch'adoro mi nieghi ristoro di buona mercè tra doglia infinita, tra speme tradita vivrà la mia fe'... (bowman) per foco e per gelo riposo non ho nel porto del Cielo riposo haverò... se colpo mortale con rigido strale il cor m'impiagò cangiando mia sorte col dardo di morte il cor sanerò... (branduardi) se fiamma d'amore già mai non sentì quel rigido core ch'il cor mi rapì se nega pietate la cruda beltate che l'alma invaghì ben fia che dolente pentita e languente sospirami un dì...

Title: renaissance music #3: "un cavalier di spagna"
Description: Different versions of the same tune. Diverse versioni della stessa melodia. UN CAVALIER DI SPAGNA ("a Spanish Knight" XV-XVI century) Francesco Santa Croce detto Patavino Excerpts from: - L'Arpeggiata: "Un cavalier di Spagna" (album "Pastime with good company", 2004) - Angelo Branduardi: "Un cavalier di Spagna" (album: "Futuro antico IV: Venezia e il carnevale", 2007) - King's Singers: "Un cavalier di Spagna" (album: "English and italian madrigals", 1974) - Marco Beasley: "Un cavalier di Spagna" (album "Pastime with good company", 2004) - Collegium Musicum Tridentinum: "Un cavalier di Spagna" (album: "Concerto primo") - Francesca Torelli & Ensemble Scintille di Musica: "Un cavalier di Spagna" (album: "Futuro antico IV: Venezia e il carnevale", 2007) movie: Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes (cartoon) (lyrics) un cavalier di spagna cavalca per la via da pe' d'una montagna cantando per amor d'una fantina: "voltate in qua, do bella donzellina, voltate un poco a me per cortesia dolce speranza mia, ch'io moro per tuo amor bella fantina, i't'ho donato il cor" apresso una fontana vidi sentar la bella soletta in terra piana con una ghirlanda di fresca herbecina "voltate in qua, do bella donzellina voltate un poco a me, lucente stella deh, non m'esser ribella, chè moro per tuo amor bella fantina, i't'ho donato il cor" "rosina bella, i't'ho donato il cor rosina bella, tu m'hai rubato il cor"

Title: renaissance music #1: "schiarazula marazula" (il primo libro de balli I)
Description: Different versions of the same tune. Diverse versioni della stessa melodia. SCHIARAZULA MARAZULA by Giorgio Mainerio (opera "Il PRIMO LIBRO DE BALLI accomodati per cantar et sonar d'ogni sorte de instromenti di Giorgio Mainerio Parmeggiano Maestro di Capella della Santa Chiesa d'Aquilegia", 1578) Death's pictures from the movie "The Seventh Seal (Il settimo Sigillo)". Original title: "Det sjunde inseglet" by Ingmar Bergman, 1957. excerpts from: - Angelo Branduardi: "Dust and ashes" (album "Fables and fantasies", 1978) - Titlà: "Schiarazula marazula" (album "zin ungiwejn", 1998) - Angelo Branduardi: "Ballo in fa diesis minore" (album "Concerto", 1980) - Drolls: "Schirazula marazula" (album "Via sacra", 2004) - ensemble Strada: "Skarazula marazula" (album "A la Via! Musiques de rue du XIIIe au XVIe siècle", 1995) - Musica Antiqua: "Schiarazula marazula" (album "Schiarazula marazula - italian dances of the renaissance ", 1999) - Terpsichore: "Schiarazula marazula" (album "Schiarazula marazula", 1973) - Finisterae: "Schiarazula marazula" (Branduardi's album "Futuro antico 2 - sulle orme dei patriarchi", 1999) - Barbarian Pipe Band: "Schiarazula marazula" (album "Fosfeni: spiritica fosfenica sonatica", 2005) - banda de gaites Villaviciosa: "Pavanne schiarazula" (album: Gaiteros de Maquilàn, la islla de piedra", 1995) - Stary Olsa: "Marazula" (album "Medieval Discotheque", 2005) - Blackmore's Night : "All for one" (electric guitar: Ritchie Blackmore, album "Ghost of a rose", 2003) - Corvus Corax: "Skarazula" (album "Congregatio", 1998) Angelo Branduardi: - "Ballo in fa diesis minore" (flute: Cristina Scrima, DVD "Camminando camminando tour", 1997) - "Baile en fa menor" (album "Confesiones de un malandrin", 1993) - "Bal en fa diese mineur" (album "La demoiselle", 1978) - "Ballo in fa diesis minore" (live Spoleto 1982) Dal programma di sala del concerto della Schola Aquileiensis del Gruppo da camera "F. Candonio", Aquileia 1995: "Il brano Schiarazula Marazula (Schiaràzzola Maràzzola) proviene dal repertorio di una setta eterodossa dai forti tratti giudeo-cristiana (i Benandanti, studiati dallo storico e antropologo Carlo Ginzburg: essi appunto andavano ai loro notturni rituali armati di "sciarazz" e "marazz", cioè di canna e finocchio): ciò pare confermare i legami della Chiesa d'Aquileia con quella di Alessandria d'Egitto, nel nome del comune evangelizzatore, san Marco. La tradizione marciana alessandrino-aquileiese aveva nella danza sacra (fino all'estasi) uno dei propri tratti più caratteristici e coinvolgenti". "The piece Sciaràzzola Maràzzola is part of the repertory of the Benandanti, an heterodox sect strongly influenced by the jewish-Christian culture. The «schiarazz» and the «marazz» were respectively the reed and the fennel used by them during their night rites. This seems to confirm the connections between the Church of Aquileia and the Church of Alexandria in virtue of the common evangelizer, St. Mark. St. Mark's tradition in Aquileia and Alexandria had in the sacred dance one of the most typical features". Lyrics in this medley: ("dust and ashes") I am dust and ashes, my crown is worm and white bone there's no man suckled milk though he run I will not call him his chains will seem as feathers when I silently lock mine his iron gate like cobweb come his moment... ("baile en fa menor") tù eres la invitada de honor del baile que bailamos deja la hoz y gira vuelta a vuelta danzando con nosotros te espera la derrota la muerte morirà con una nota... ("bal en fa diese mineur") toi maîtresse du monde, soit bienvenue dans nos maisons pose la faux au creux de toute nos musiques prends place dans nos dances et si tu dances encore toute la mort sera morte à l'aurore

Title: VII Bolivian Baroque and Renaissance Music Festival 2008
Description: This video provides information on the upcoming VII Bolivian Baroque and Renaissance Music Festival

Title: Piffaro, the Renaissance Music Band, Epiphany Vespers
Description: Piffaro Renaissance Music Band premiers Epiphany Vespers by Kile Smith, the Crossing Choir conducted by Donald Nally. Moving music performed on ancient instruments accompanied by a modern choir creates a singular performance of excellence, eloquence, peace and love.

Title: European dance and music heritage
Description: Ensemble for Renaissance Music and Dance Cortesía aims to create the mood, grace and elegance of an evening at a Renaissance court with its programme of music and dance. Their selections offer diverse musical and dance styles from a range of countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, England and Slovenia. The dancers and musicians are dressed in immaculate period costumes. The ensemble (recorders, gamba, harpsichord, percussion, and voice) is synchronized beautifully with the dancers' movements. The richness of the dancing performance is in the details: the lightness of step, the fluidity of arm movements, the carriage of the head, and the expressiveness of the dancers' faces. The passion of the Ensemble Cortesía is to breathe life into Renaissance music and dance for contemporary audiences. The approach of the ensemble Cortesia to the interpretation of music and dance is based upon research, study and reconstruction of original written records. With special attention and devotion they perform works of art composed by authors whose artistic activity was connected in the past with the territory of contemporary Slovenia. They wish to present the European culture of the Renaissance period to selected audiences and -- in that context -- to emphasize and treasure their own music and dance heritage.

Title: A lesson on Medieval and Renaissance Music
Description: Natalie and Mary Grace try to explain the importance of music during both time periods with sad attempts at band humor and general music theory.

Title: Harlem Renaissance Music and Dance (english final)
Description: yeah... sucks.

Title: Romeo & Juliet - Zefirelli - 1968 - New Soundtrack - Part 1
Description: A more appropriate soundtrack for the dance and song scenes of Zefirelli´s Romeu and Juliet. Nino Rota is a great composer and I like his original music for the film, but as a renaissance music aficionado I always imagined the famous ball scene with music from the epoch in order to feel even more immersed in that magic atmosphere. PART 1 Music: Pietro Paolo Borrono (fl. 1530-40) Pavana la Gombertina From the CD Early Italian Renaissance Music - Harmonia Mundi Paul O´Dette - Lute

Title: Renaissance choral music: Willaert and Mundy
Description: Classical music for your day. Some choir music for you. *Adrian Willaert - (c.1490-1562) - Ave Maria - 5'06" **William Mundy - (c.1530-before 1591) - O Lord, the Maker of all things - 2'56" performed by / label: * - Oxford Camerata with Jeremy Summerly, Naxos ** - The Sixteen with Harry Christophers, Helios / Hyperion

Title: So Far Away From Me Lesson
Description: played on a Gibson Songwriter at Renaissance Music in Kingston... visit their website at www.renaissance-music.com recorded on macbook pro from mac outpost london ontario.

Title: Courante
Description: "Courante" Music by Robert Ballard (c1575 - 1649) Original for lute According to Grove's Online, Robert Ballard was a lutenist and composer in the French court and the personal lute instructor of the young Louis XIII. This is one incredibly strange piece of music (my words; not Groves). The uneven phrase lengths, hemiolas, syncopations and unusually modern-sounding (to me) harmonic interludes just blow my mind. Surely Ballard had turned on the alternating courante full blast for this one. Thing is, however, I might be playing this ALL wrong. I have no recorded versions to reference and inform and inspire. Those of you who've studied this kind of thing will know what I mean when I tell you that French baroque and renaissance music is not to be played like ANY OTHER MUSIC you ever heard. :D Truly a style apart. So anyhow this is my stab at it. I got this from the great John Renbourn book entitled "Mel Bay's Complete Anthology of Medieval & Renaissance Music for Guitar". Apparently this book is no longer in print, but you should be able to find used copies or a copy still available at finer music shops. (wow, I sound like an advert) Oh, and I'll remember to shave next time. Taylor NS54-CE, hybrid classical