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Music Minus One Recorder, Flute, Oboe or Violin: Renaissance Dances and Fantasias (Book & CD)

Music Minus One Recorder, Flute, Oboe or Violin: Renaissance Dances and Fantasias (Book & CD)
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Perform Renaissance dances and fantasias with a renaissance band! Perfect for practice, rehearsal, auditions, contest solos, performances, and more!

Cheerful, lusty, raucous…these are the sounds of the street bands and the people of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Fanfares, drums, cymbals accompanying the street procession on a Saint's Day; cornetto and sackbut accompanying singers in princely chapels. Of such simple roots grew magnificent compositions of both the secular and ecclesiastical courts. This collection of rollicking dances and fantasias are performed by the New York Renaissance Band…and you!

Contains printed music score, and compact disc (with accompaniments only) in stereo.

MMO CD 3356
Accompaniment: New York Renaissance Band: Lucy Bardo, viols/vielle; Lawrence Benz, sackbut/recorders/krummhorns; Allan Dean, cornetto/recorders/krummhorns; Ben Harms, percussion/viols; Sally Logemann, shawms/dulcian/rackettr/ecorder

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #411054 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-01
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 16 pages

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good but rather difficult4
The music selection is very nice and the accompaniment is very well played.
I would, however, put a note of cautiousness on the difficulties that you could find. 1. On the CD, you will find the accompaniments only, which limits the guidance you find. 2. Rythms are often very quick and there is only one 'tempo' -- the real one -- on this CD. 3. Most of the scores are for soprano recorder, even the Pierrre Attaignant's scores, which are indicated for the alto (treble) recorder. Of course, if you play the alto recorder you can play this music one octave higher but this implies, obviously, more difficulties. 4) The Michael Praetorius's scores (the fist 9) are difficult to read because the printing is too small.
In my view, to take full advantage of this book and CD, the recorder player should have an intermediary-high or advanced level, especially if they play alto rather than soprano recorder.
The reason why I give 4 stars rather than 5 has to do with the book printing and the lack of information on the appropriate level of potential players.