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Michael Praetorius Terpsichore 1612 Dance music in the late Renaissance
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To skip to a different piece, click on the time stamp given below: • 0:10 Passameze CCLXXXVI • 2:17 Gaillarde CCXCVIII • 4:13 Courante CXVII • 5:43 Reprinse secumdum inferiorem • 8:50 Passameze CCLXXXIII • 11:09 Courante MM Wustrow • 14:14 Spagnoletta • 15:46 Passameze pour les cornetz • The German composer Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was one of the preeminent musicologists and composers of the early 17th century. Terpsichore, which he published in 1612, was collection of 300+ popular dance tunes culled from contemporary French (and Italian) composers. Many of the pieces in this clip were composed by his colleague Pierre-Francisque Caroubel, a Frenchman of Italian extraction. In this video, I arranged some of their music using MIDI files uploaded by Dillon Upton at www.IMSLP.org. I generated electronically synthesized sounds of late Renaissance instruments using the iPhone app MusicStudio. I was hoping to simulate the sounds of cornettos, sackbuts, viols, lutes, recorders, Renaissance keyboards, chitarrone etc. The paintings are mostly works of German and Dutch artists from the first 2 decades of the 17th century. I also included several precision-made woodcut illustrations of musical instruments contained in volume 2 of Praetorius' three volume encyclopedia Syntagma Musicum. The facsimile prints include the covers from two collections of sacred compositions by Praetorius and the Cantus part of the Spagnoletta dance.
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