Chording to the Dance Masters – Melody and chords for 44 Renaissance Dance Consort pieces (The Wold Meridian Mediaeval and Renaissance Performer’s Library)

Renaissance Dance music provides some of the most simple yet satisfying pieces to play on a wide range of instruments. They are suitable for recorders, modern strings, woodwinds or brass, or where available, reproductions of 16th century instruments, such as crumhorns, viols or shawms to name but a few. The 44 pieces are presented as a single melody line with chords. They can be enjoyed by, for instance keyboard players on their own, or else with any melody instrument playing along with any chord playing instrument. Pieces have been taken from Attaignant, Gervaise, Henry VIII, Susato, Praetorius, Widman and Mainerio among others, and represent some of the essential repertoire of renaissance dance ensembles. Popular vocal pieces of the era have been included together with their lyrics, which can be sung or played instrumentally What makes this Wold Meridian edition of these pieces different from others is that they have been created to make performing them as accessible as possible. Each piece can be heard in a companion video on YouTube with illustrations and historical background information. You can find these at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYRWH2nycMkMoIoEYEMVPa_EXY6NVDpNS If you are new to the pleasure of playing in renaissance music, you could not do better than start with these Wold Meridian editions.