Choreomania Program

Music for the Dancing Plagues of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Phoebe Jevtovic: voice
Shira Kammen: vielle, voice
Tim Rayborn: percussion, voice, citole, psaltery
Priscilla Smith: recorders, dulcian, bagpipe, voice
Tom Zajac: pipe and tabor, bagpipe, sackbut,
recorder, dulce melos, jaw harp, castanets, voice

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Nu Tret Herzuo, 14th-c. German Flagellant Song

Saxony, 1017-18
Equitabat Bobo, text: Saxony, ca. 1017,
music: contrafact of Carmina Burana #23, arr. Tim Rayborn

Wales, 1188
Luto carens, anon. 12th-c. Notre Dame conductus
In Domino confidite, anon. 12th-c. Notre Dame conductus
Passionis emuli, anon. 12th-c. Notre Dame conductus
Estampie Passionis, arr. Tim Rayborn

Erfurt, 1247
Tanz: Bonum est confidere, based on Carmina Burana #27,
arr. Tim Rayborn, Tom Zajac, and Annette Bauer

Ut queant laxis, Hymn for St. John the Baptist,
attributed to Paul the Deacon (ca. 720-99)  

Maastricht, 1278
In Seculum Viellatoris, Bamberg Codex, ca. 1260-90
Veni virgo/Veni Sancte Spiritus/Neuma, Montpellier Codex, ca. 1300
Nota Neuma, arr. Tim Rayborn and Cançonièr

Aachen, Ghent, Metz, and Northern France, 1374-75
Des merveilles, text: Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406),
melody: arr. Tom Zajac after an anonymous trouvère melody

Maria unser frowe, 14th-c. German Flagellant Song

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** Intermission **

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Italy
Saltarello, Italy, ca.1400, British Library Lo, Add. 29987

Cori Miu, trad. Italian tarantella
Pizicca Taranta, trad. Italian tarantella,arr. Annette Bauer and Cançonièr

Strasbourg, 1588
Quene Note, Frankes, Digby MS 167 (15th c.), arr. Tom Zajac
Files à marier, anon, Seville Chansonnier, ca. 1500

Responsorium in Nativitate S. Johannes, Apel Codex, ca. 1500
Ut queant laxis (a 3), anon., Apel Codex
Ut queant laxis (a 4), Adam v. Fulda, ca. 1445-1505

La Spagna, Heinrich Isaac, ca. 1445-1517
Hopptanz, Johannes Weck, ca.1492-1536,
arr. Annette Bauer, based on the Amerbach Organ Tabulature

In Gottes Namen fahren wir, 15th-c. German Pilgrimage Song,arr. Annette Bauer