Medieval Dance Music
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Performer: The Dufay CollectiveEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-08-01
Music Label: Grammercy Records
Soundtracks:
- Danse Real
- Estampie
- Three Ductias
- Three Estampie Reales
- Estampie (Robertsbridge)
- Chominciamento di Gioia
- Lamento di Tristano
- La Rotta
- Danca Amorosa
- Salterello
- La Manfredina
- Salterello (number two)
Music reviews of Medieval Dance Music
Music Review: Not a SCAdian dance album
Rating: 2 Stars
I've been studying and enjoying the bardic arts in the SCA for over 16 years. If your idea of medieval dance music is the stuff usually done in the SCA then you will hate this album.
do they use period instruments? yes.
But the songs themselves are neither pleasant to listen to nor match anything you're used to in the SCA.
There's no bransles, no pavanes, none of the stuff you're likely to hear at a dance practice or event.
The music is not especially festive or fun. It's not especially dancable for any form of dancing I know.
At best you might like these pieces as feast background music--or a formal concert of scholarly works.
It's not light, easy listening for the casual person.
The title of this album really doesn't match my scheme of what medieval music is nor dance music. It's definitely not for those in the SCA besides the music laurels.
The snippets really don't convey what the songs are like.
I'm very disappointed.
Description of Medieval Dance Music
Medieval literature abounds with references to dancing, yet less than fifty dances are documented before 1400 A.D. and still survive today. Much of the music performed by medieval minstrels was improvised and often performed with a combination of instruments such as the oud (lute)and the rebec which were introduced to Europe by Arabs as early as the 8th century. By Drawing on tradition and reproduced using combinations of reconstructed medieval instruments and eastern instruments virtually unaltered since the middle ages, the aim of this album is to recreate the essence of medieval dance music and the exciting art of the medieval minstrel.Styles CDs
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