Classical Music | Music for Quintet

Recorded on 02/14/2006, uploaded on 01/13/2009

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

Almayne      Alfonso Ferrabosco II

Elizabethan Consort Music

While the instrumentation of the of this period is mostly unspecified, brass playing was widespread during the Renaissance and these pieces work quite well as arranged for brass quintet.  This delightful collection of Elizabethan dance music was edited and arranged by American Brass Quintet trumpeter Raymond Mase.  Almayne is stately in character, followed by a brisk dance entitled Widow's Myte.  The Dovehouse Pavane is slow and reflective.  Next is a pair of fairly fast madrigals: Why Are You Ladies Staying? segued into Hark! I Hear Some Dancing.  The Allemande is a dance in moderate 4/4 time divided into two sections beginning with a short upbeat.  The swift last movement is entitled Volta, the name of an old dance which includes a characteristic jump.  CINCO

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.