Fineline Classical's Adieu, naturlic leven mijn (Farewell, my fleshly life) features the Aventure Ensemble for Medieval Music in 14 pieces collected from the Koning Manuscript, a volume from the turn of the sixteenth century housed at the Royal Library in Brussels (ms. II 270). It is a highly curious source; richly illustrated with images of well-to-do individuals in all their finery placed opposite the specter of death and containing lengthy poems advocating the renunciation of wealth and property. Twenty nine of the poems ...
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Fineline Classical's Adieu, naturlic leven mijn (Farewell, my fleshly life) features the Aventure Ensemble for Medieval Music in 14 pieces collected from the Koning Manuscript, a volume from the turn of the sixteenth century housed at the Royal Library in Brussels (ms. II 270). It is a highly curious source; richly illustrated with images of well-to-do individuals in all their finery placed opposite the specter of death and containing lengthy poems advocating the renunciation of wealth and property. Twenty nine of the poems are set with polyphonic music, though only in a maximum of two parts; other pieces appear without music in a separate layer of the book. In realizing the music of this source, Aventure sometimes fleshes out the musical settings through utilizing descant and other practices common to this era. It also varies the material by including a piece from the Buxheim organ book, a work by Alexander Agricola, and by using a piece by Jacob Obrecht to set a text from the Koning Manuscript that...
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Alexander Agricola; Anonymous, Koning Manuscript; Various Composers. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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