The Renaissance Recorder

Description

"This book is intended to give recorder players a repertoire of solo pieces from the Renaissance. Solo literature for the recorder is often dominated by music of the baroque era, while the music of Renaissance is primarily preformed by consorts. I hope that this collection will expand the solo repertoire by bringing to recorder players some of the most beautiful melodies of this period. I have performed all of these pieces in public and have taken care only to include music that is of performance quality. Some of the pieces are grouped in suites, but you should feel free to play them in the order of your choice. For those of you equally at home on descant (soprano) and treble (alto), fell free to intersperse pieces from the companion book for descant recorder."

• Content:
• Ten Dances from the Susato collection: T. Susato: Allemande
• T. Susato: Ronde "Mon amy"
• T. Susato: Pavane "Mille regretz"
• T. Susato: Le cueur est bon
• T. Susato: Ronde III
• T. Susato: Allemande
• T. Susato: Pass et medio
• T. Susato: Ronde IV
• T. Susato: Ronde V
• T. Susato: Ronde VI
• J. Sturte: Lady Banning's Almand
• J. Dowland: What if a Day
• P. Phalèse: The Leaves be Green
• Three English Country Dances from John Playford's Dancing Master: The Merry Milkmaids
• Dissembling Love of The Lost Heart
• Newcastle
• Four Elizabethan Masque Dances: R. Johnson: The Fairy Masque
• Anon: Wilson's Love
• Anon: The Witches-Second Dance
• Anon: The King's Mistress
• Two Country Dances from the John Playford collection: Bellamira
• Pell-mell
• Anon: Woodycock
• D. Ortiz: Recercada segunda sobre
• D. Ortiz: Recercada quinta
• D. Ortiz: Recercada segunda

Difficulty: very easy to intermediate