Robin m'aime - Adam de la Halle & Mout me fu grief / Robin
m'aime / Portare - anonymous
"Robin loves me, he's going to buy me a belt
and a silk purse - why shouldn't I love him?"
Taken from the medieval play by Adam de la Halle
Le Jeu de Robin et Marion here we meet Marion
expressing her love for Robin. The polyphonic music
played by the plucked instruments (harp and gittern)
is based on sacred plain chant as well as the tune sung
by Marion.
Three country dances in one - Thomas Ravenscroft
"A pretty conceit as I ween-a.."
Robin Hood is dancing again. Popular from late medieval
times, our favourite outlaw was a character in many a jolly
May game. The buzz of Laulan's gothic harp gives rhythmic
punch. Peyronelle's violeta adds ornamental divisions to the
melody to match the increasing intricacy of the dance.
Surrexit de tumulo - anonymous
Solo harp version of a two voice 13th century piece in a Spanish
manuscript celebrating the resurrection. Recently performed as an
accompaniment to an Alice In Wonderland type dream sequence of
a contemporary dance piece I was playing in.
Let a bund us - Laulan with help from anonymous and RC-20XL
A Christmas sequence sequenced. One of the most famous and
popular medieval Christmas plain chants is given a Laulan treatment.
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