Colonial America

Hesperus: Early Music Ensemble - Colonial America

Colonial America
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Artist: Hesperus: Early Music Ensemble
Performer: Hesperus Early/Traditional Music Ensemble
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: Fantastic!
Rating: 5 Stars

I first heard the "Colonial America" CD by Hesperus when I visited Monticello recently (the home of Thomas Jefferson) where they were playing the songs in the gift shop. Imagine my dismay to find that only one cassette tape was left of the fabulous music of Hesperus; however, that tape held me spell-bound all the way home, from Virginia to North Carolina.

It was an incredible journey from the past that has stayed with me since, and every day I drive that one hour back and forth to work. This music has changed everything about the trips, and I can't wait for more.

Thanks to Amazon.com I was able to buy all three CD's, including "Early American Roots," "Colonial America" and the incredible "Celtic Roots" with the most beautiful violas imaginable.

Thank you Hesperus! Please play more!

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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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