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Medieval and Tudor music by Trouvère available on CD and book
All Trouvere CDs can be ordered by post. Simply send a cheque made payable to Trouvere to - 2 Silver Street, Hackforth, Bedale, North Yorkshire DL8 1NS. Remember to include your own postal details.
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Music for a Medieval Feast - £10 + £1 postage and packaging
The music and merrymaking of a 13th - 14th century feasting hall is brought to life on the latest CD from Trouvere! The range of instruments featured includes bagpipes, flutes, citole, recorder, harp, rebec and percussion to create a lively mix of instrumental music ideal for any medieval banquet.
Click on the following to hear samples from the CD, Des oge mais, Quen a omagen, brid one brere and Marivillosos et piadosos.
1. Stella splendens, 2. Miri it is, 3. Quen a omagen, 4. A madre do que livrou, 5. Lauda novela, 6. Por my gran fremosura, 7. Ben pode Santa Maria, 8. La rotta, 9. Como poden, 10. Avirgen mui groriosa, 11. Ductia, 12. Por conforter mon corage, 13. Brid one brere, 14. Gran sendece faz, 15. Ad honorum tui/Audites principes, 16. Parti de mal, 17. Loybere risen, 18. Sumer is icumen in, 19. Marivillosos et piadosos, 20. Comossomos per consello, 21. Santa Maria stella do dia/Quen diz mal, 22. Des oges mais, 23. Quen quer que.Novela - £10 + £1 postage and packaging
This CD features 13th and 14th century music from medieval France, Spain and Italy. The recordings are all modern interpretations performed on a variety of instruments both modern and medieval. Unlike our other recent recordings, we have not worried about authenticity and allowed the music to take us where it will.
Click on the following to download a full length sample from the CD, The Sexte estampie real
1. Contre tens, 2. Quen bona, 3. Muito valvera, 4. Douce dame jolie, 5. Trotto, 6. Sexte estampie real, 7 L'autrier, 8. Audite principes, 9. Contre tens, 10. Novela, 11. Saltarello.
In Bethlehem - £10 + £1 postage and packaging
Music for a medieval Christmas. A collection of 11 songs arranged for voice, lute, citole, viol, psaltery, harp and flute. All the music comes from the 15th and 16th centuries.
If you would like to download the words for the songs featured on this CD click here.
Click on the following to hear samples from the CD, The Coventry Carol, There is no Rose, and In Dulci Jubilo
Players: Clare Little (viol, voice), Gill Page (harp. voice), Tony Lacey (voice), Paul Leigh (citole, flute, guitar, psaltery, lute).
1. Puer nobis, 2. In dulci jubilo, 3. In Bethlehem, 4. Coventry carol, 5. Nous voice dans la ville, 6. Alma redemptoris mater, 7. Nova nova, 8. Song of the nuns of Chester, 9. There is no rose, 10. Of a rose sing we, 11. Wonder tidings.
Por mon Corage - £10 + £1 postage and packaging
Music and song from 13th century France. This CD focuses on the music of the trouvères who, like their southern French counterparts the troubadours composed a great number of beautiful songs - many of which have survived. This CD features songs from the different styles of trouvere poetry interspersed with instrumental pieces called estampies.
Click on the following to hear samples from the CD, Dolerousement Comence, English Dance and the Quarte Estampie Real.
Players: Elliott Rush (psaltery, percussion), Clare Little (vielle, rebec, recorder, voice), Gill Page (voice), Paul Leigh (citole, flute, percussion).
1. Prions en chantant, 2. English dance, 3. Dolerousement comence, 4. Tierce estampie real, 5. Ja nus hons pris, 6. Quarte estampie real, 7. Pensis, chief enclin, 8. Quinte estampie real, 9. Lasse, pour quoi refusai, 10. Sexte estampie real, 11. Au tens pascor, 12. Chanterei por mon corage, 13. Septime estampie real, 14. Jherusalem, 15. Uitime estampie real, 16 L'autrier quant je chevauchoie, 17. Voulez vous que je vous chant.
A splendid collection of 19 medieval and 16th century music performed on a wide variety of instruments including lutes, citoles, psalteries, flutes, nakirs, symphony and cornamuse.
The CD is arranged in chronological order starting with music from the 13th century French Trouvère manuscripts. Features 12 instrumental pieces and 7 songs.
Click on the following to hear excerpts, Douce dame Jolie, Ce jour de l'an and the Quinte estampie real.
Players: Gill Stapleton, Helen Senior, Tony Lacey, Paul Mcguiness, Dan Osbaldeston, Gill Page, Paul Leigh.
1. La quinte estampie real, 2 Chanterei por mon corage,
3 Amors m'art con fuo am flama, 4. Palastinalied, 5. Ce fu en mai, 6.
Donna pos vos ay chausida, 7. Danse real, 8. Huic main/hec dies, 9. Quant
voi/Virgo virginum/Hec dies, 10. L'autrier m'esbatoie/Demenant grant joie/manere,
11. Douce dame jolie, 12. Lamento di Tristano and Rotta, 13. Ce jour de
l'an, 14. Nous voice dans la ville, 15. Branles from Arbeau, 16. Dance
of the washerwomen, 17. Bianco fiore, 18. Danza, 19. Helas Madame.
Ranging from the elegant ballads of the renaissance through to the lively dances of the 13th century this CD. On this CD, medieval melodies and songs are reinterpreted and adapted to old and new instruments.
Click on the following to hear excerpts, Ja nus hons pris, Orientus partibus and Flow my tears.
Players: Gill Stapleton, Ian Stapleton, Dave Vale, Ben McCullough, Paul Leigh.
1. Gaudete, 2 Agincourt carol, 3. Parti de mal, 4. Coventry
carol, 5. English dance, 6. Ahi! amours, 7. Flow my tears, 8. Branle de
l'officiel, 9. On yoolis night, 10. Lord Zouche's Masque, 11 Chi passa,
12. Ja nus hons pris, 13. Orientus Partibus.
This Guide for Schools is intended for teachers who are keen to explore the medieval and Tudor periods with their classes. It is especially intended to accompany Tudor studies at Key Stage 2, and medieval studies at Key Stage 3, but some of the simpler branles (Torch, Horse, Clog) can be great fun at Key Stage 1. Detailed descriptions and music are given of eight dances and the music for each, performed on period instruments, is given on an accompanying CD. There are also two extra pieces of music on the CD provided with worksheets to enable children to devise their own 'Tudor' dance.
Click on the following to hear excerpts, the Horses branle, Amoroso and the Branle l'officiel.
Players: Elliott Rush, Clare Little, Paul Leigh.
1. Torch Branle, 2. Horses Branle, 3. Scottish Branle, 4. Washerwomen's Branle, 5. Branle de l'officiel, 6. Clog branle, 7. Pastime with good company, 8. Amoroso, 9. Hermit's and Pease Branle, 10. Lord Zouche's Masque.
Early Medieval Music - Booklet - £3 including postage
An introduction to the music of the Saxons, Franks and Vikings. The booklet describes the development of music theory, notation and instruments in this early period.
By Paul Leigh and Gill Page
Fratres Confortamini - Music from the Anglo-Saxon Church - Booklet - £3 including postage
A collection of six pre-conquest antiphons arranged in modern notation
By Paul Leigh and Gill Page
Other recordings planned for 2008-9
Sunne in Splendour
The music of the fifteenth century is to be brought to life on this CD. There will be a collection of instrumental pieces and songs, polyphony and monophony from England, France, Burgundy and Italy. There are plans to include the rarely recorded music from the York Mystery Plays. More info on this new project will appear later.
The Tudor Feast
This CD will feature as many different Tudor age instruments as possible to demonstrate the sounds of Tudor England. There will be examples of courtly music, feasting music, dance music and commoners music. This recording will be useful in schools for teachers presenting Tudor Times at KS2. We intend to produce an accompanying booklet featuring pictures and short histories of the instruments, notated music and classroom activities based on Tudor music.
Other plans for Trouvère
recordings include a CD featuring medieval comic tales. Trouvère
concerts and shows usually feature lively tales with specially prepared
music and there have been many requests for these lively stories to be
recorded.
If you would like to contact Trouvère Medieval Minstrels then email us
Tel no. 0772 0118406