Caption: detail from Allegory of Spring by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter (1660–1711).
detail from Allegory of Spring by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter (1660–1711). 

A Springtime Celebration with Early Music Song and Dance

Series: Harmonia Early Music
From: WFIU
Length: 00:58:59

An hour-long program of early music, celebrating and welcoming spring with song and dance music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early Baroque. Read the full description.

Allegory_of_spring_small It's a celebration of Springtime on Harmonia, with songs and dance music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early Baroque.  Plus, we'll hear settings of Palestrina's madrigal Vestiva i colli, and French baroque composer Nicolas Chedeville's arrangement of "Spring" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Join us...

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It's a celebration of Springtime on Harmonia, with songs and dance music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early Baroque.  Plus, we'll hear settings of Palestrina's madrigal Vestiva i colli, and French baroque composer Nicolas Chedeville's arrangement of "Spring" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Join us...

Timing and Cues

A Springtime Celebration with Early Music Song and Dance
Program # 708
TIMINGS & CUES / PLAYLIST
FROM: WFIU-Bloomington
Total Program Length: 59:00

ACCUM TIME:
00:00 Segment 1: Program Intro
Incue: Theme Music
01:00 Segment 2: Optional Cutaway for News
06:00 Segment 3
18:28 [12:28 into file SEG 3] FLOATING BREAK (:29 music bed)
Outcue:. "...on Facebook or follow our updates all week long on Twitter. Just search for Harmonia."
29:40 Segment 4: MIDPOINT BREAK (:59 music bed)
Outcue: "...I'm Angela Mariani."
30:40 Segment 5
43:11 [12:30 into file SEG 5] FLOATING BREAK (:29 music bed)
Outcue: "...and podcasts can be found online at harmonia early music dot org."
59:00 End Program
Outcue: "...for the next edition of Harmonia." (Theme Music)

PROMO: It's a celebration of Springtime on Harmonia, with songs and dance music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early Baroque. Plus, we'll hear settings of Palestrina's madrigal Vestiva i colli, and French baroque composer Nicolas Chedeville's arrangement of "Spring" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Join us...

PLAYLIST

Time Capsule Music Bed:
Kerstin Frödin, recorder
Works of Sandström, Broman, Hotteterre, Blavet, Telemann, and Shinohara
KMH (1999)
Anonymous
Tr. 1: Belicha (excerpt)

Sound out my voice! Italian madrigals and bastarda music for viol consort
ORLANDOviols
Lunaris 2010 B00451QQ44
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Tr. 1: Vestiva i colli (3:39)

Francesco Landini and Italian Ars Nova
Alla Francesca/Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 1992 B000005W6B
Tr. 7: Ballata "Ecco la primavera" (1:00)

Sevilla circa 1560
La Trulla de Bozes
Passacaille 2002 B00006LVGW
Francisco Guerrero
Tr. 7: "Dezidme, fuente clara" (3:00)

Estienne Moulinié: L'Humaine Comédie
Le Poeme Harmonique/Vincent Dumestre
Alpha 2000 B00004V4WK
Tr. 10: "Tout se peint de verdure" (4:09)

Shakespeare's Musick: Songs and Dances from Shakespeare's Plays
Musicians of the Globe/Philip Pickett
Philips 1997 B0000041KP
Thomas Morley
Tr. 5: "It was Lover and his Lass" (3:13)

:29 Floating Break Music Bed:
Anonymous, Isabella, Mala Punica

Program Topic A cont.:
Nicolas Chedeville: Les Saisons Amusantes
Les Eclairs de Musique
Arts Music 2004 B0000918QE
Concerto "Le Printemps" (after Antonio Vivaldi, "Four Seasons")
Tr. 1: Allegro (3:31)
Tr. 2: Adagio. Sempre piano (2:27)
Tr. 3: Pastorello. Allegro (3:29)

Theme Music Bed: Ensemble Alcatraz, Danse Royale, Elektra Nonesuch 79240-2 [ASIN: B000005J0B], T.12: La Prime Estampie Royal

:59 Midpoint Break Music Bed:
Nota sebissa, Marcabru, Millenarium

Program Topic A, cont.:
Musik am Prager Hof Kaiser Rudolfs II: Music at the Court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague
Dialogo Musicale/Leo Meilink
Ars Musici 1992 B0037SQ2LS
CD 2
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Tr. 1: "Vestiva i colli" (4:05)

The Art of the Viol Bastarda
Sophie Watillon, viola da gamba, and Ensemble
Ligia 1994 B0049J7GEG
Bartolomeo di Selma y Salaverde
Tr. 13: Vestiva i colli (3:31)

Music at the Court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague
Dialogo Musicale/Leo Meilink
Ars Musici 1992 B0037SQ2LS
CD 2
Philippe de Monte
Tr. 3: Missa Sex Vocum - Gloria [super "Vestiva i colli"] (4:14)

:29 Floating Break Music Bed:
Anonymous, La quarte estampie royal, Millenarium

Featured Release:
Le Journal du Printemps, op. 1
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra/Michi Gaigg
CPO 2007 B000UTOLCE
Tr. 6: Suite C major, no. 1, Ouverture (2:23)
Tr. 7: Marche (1:00)
Tr. 8: Air de Combattons (:55)
Tr. 9: Riguadon (:35)
Tr. 10: Menuet (1:08)
Tr. 11: Chaconne (3:59)
Tr. 38: Suite in C major, no. 8, Passepied (:39)
Tr. 40: Menuet (2:27)

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