Jessica Walsh: Renaissance And Medieval Music For Flute: Flute: Instrumental

Come play music written by kings and clowns Ladies and lawyers dance masters doctors and troubadours. Welcome to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Creativity flourished throughout the times that produced writers Artists and scientists such as Dante Chaucer Shakespeare Michelangelo da Vinci and Galileo.That inventiveness is evident in the imaginative and eloquent music in this collection. Among the melodies are a Portuguese troubadour s Song for a Friend written almost 800 years ago John Dowland s Midnight silenced from the mid-1600's until the discovery of Margaret Board s Lute Book in 1970 and a beautiful and haunting song written by aScottish Lady. There are over 40 tunes in this beautiful collection.