Renaissance Charms

This suite of four Renaissance dances is taken from Tylman Susato's "Danserye", a collection of sixty dance movements published in 1551. The source for these arrangements is John Kilpatrick's excellent 2016 edition. These dance movements were originally written for a quartet of Krummhorns (bent horns). Krummhorns are capped double - reed instruments. Hence the player's lips never touch the reed. The quartet included a superius, contra-tenor, tenor & bassus.

There are many arrangements of Tylman Susato's dance movements. What makes this one unusual is that the ensemble switches from full band to quartet and back to full band constantly. You will hear quartets of brass, woodwind and percussion.

Ornamentation is written into the parts.