Colonial America

Colonial America

Colonial America
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Composer: American Anonymous
Composer: English Anonymous
Composer: Scottish Anonymous
Composer: Straloch Lute Book Anonymous
Composer: Benjamin Carr
Composer: Tobias Hume
Composer: Turlough O'Carolan
Composer: John (i) Playford
Composer: American Traditional
Composer: Scottish Traditional
Composer: Various Composers
Performer: Hesperus
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-01
Music Label: Maggie's Music
Soundtracks:
  1. Rickett's Hornpipe/ Fishers Hornpipe
  2. Maiden Lane/ Jack O' Lent/ Chestnut/Bonny Broom
  3. Parting Friends/Primrose
  4. Flowers of Edinburgh/East Neuke of Fife
  5. Prelude / La Catherine
  6. Planxty Browne/Planxty Burke
  7. Cutie Clat Her
  8. John Come Kiss me Now
  9. Scots Tune
  10. Carolan's Farewell to Music
  11. A Port
  12. Yeil, yeil
  13. Kedron/Saint's Delight/Promised Land
  14. Gird the Logie
  15. La Belle Cavalier
  16. La Luxillier/La Balanje
  17. Federal Overture
  18. Death & Life

Music reviews of Colonial America

Music Review: A fantastic musical journey into the past...
Rating: 5 Stars

This CD is amazing--it is simply the best collection of colonial music I have ever heard. The recording is crystal clear, and while the quality is reflective of modern technology, the music sounds identical to that you might hear in a colonial setting (like Williamsburg, VA, for instance).
I really like that this CD does not have any vocal selections--that may be a plus or minus, depending on your taste, but in my opinion, it makes the CD more versatile, either to play as background music, or to turn it up loudly and dance to it. :)

My family listens to this, non-stop, year-round. I plan to buy the other CD's in this series, too.

Description of Colonial America

Spirited new sounds from across the sea to the shores of the New Land. From the first colonists to the American Revolution and the birth of our republic Hesperus Early Music Ensemble's music reflects a time of new ideas, freedom and vitality. In town and village, parlor and ballroom, from the Appalachians to the great concert halls hear the musical pulse of early American music performed on a wide variety of folk and early music instruments. Includes: lively country-dance tunes, evocative Shape Note Hymns, old time Appalachian fiddle tunes, graceful European parlor music, French cotillions, divisions and improvisations. Introduction -The English Colonies in America were a patchwork-not just of territories whose boundaries became state lines, but of people from different places and classes with widely different values and experiences. This recording presents music from that patchwork; from England, the Colonial homeland; Scotland and Ireland, the homes of the largest groups of immigrants outside England; and France, the ally of the Patriots, and music written in the United States. More recordings by HESPERUS from Maggie's Music are Celtic Roots featuring Scottish fiddler, Bonnie Rideout and Early American Roots. Hesperus Ensemble is THE sought after musical group for period music that is both authentic, and most important fun, lively and spirited. They are frequent performers at the Smithsonian's Institute of American Music and can be heard on the soundtrack or the Paramount film with Johnny Depp entitled Sleepy Hollow! Excerpts from liner notes:2.A Set of English Country Dance Tunes: Maiden Lane, Jack O'Lent, Chestnut, Bonny Broom - The visionary London music publisher John Playford first published his English Dancing Master in 1651. It was reprinted 18 times over the next 77 years and is still popular today. 3. Parting Friends/Primrose - These tunes have come down to us in choral arrangements called shape-note hymns .

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