In a Garden So Green, Lute Music of Scotland by Voices of Music Voices of Music : In a Garden So Green, Lute Music of Scotland.
 Lilting renaissance & baroque vocal interpretations .

Forty years ago, on a warm fall afternoon in the music library of Columbia University, I transcribed a beautiful lute solo from a microfilm of the Jane Pickering lute book. Jane's book, now 400 years old, contains some of the best English music written for the lute, but this particular piece was from Scotland, and it was music that I had not even imagined could exist: full of spirited dance rhythms, unusual harmonies and angular, asymmetrical tunes.

At the time, I wished for more of these amazing pieces - enough for a concert of Scottish music, or a recording. In the intervening years, many fine musicians and musicologists found more music, and recorded this repertory, so that Scottish music became an established part of the Early Music repertory.

More than sixty different manuscripts and prints were consulted in preparation for this recording, and these sources reflect the confluence of international styles in vogue in Scotland in the 17th century. I hope that you will enjoy this music as much as I have.

-David Tayler, Ph.D.

Songs:

1. Canaries
2. A New Scots Measure
3. Greensleeves
4. In a Garden So Green
5. A Scots Tune
6. The Scottish Huntsup
7. Ane Scottis Dance
8. The Flowers of the Forest
9. Fy Gar Rub Her O'er Wi' Strae
10. Joy to the Person
11. The Last Time I Came Over the Moor
12. Mal Symes
13. The Old Man
14. Ostende
15. Rowallan Alman
16. Whip My Taudie
17. The Gypsies Lilt
18. Wo Betyd Thy Wearie Bodie
19. I Never Knew I Loved Thee
20. Volt
21. Branle de Poictou
22. It is a Wonder to See

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Release date: 12/15/2014
Voices of Music lives in California USA

Tagged as: Classical, World, Renaissance, Folk, Instrumental, Celtic, Lute

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