Tempus est Jocundum - Middle Age Music
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.NL3035

By Artefactum. By Various. Classical. CD. Naxos #NL3035. Published by Naxos (NX.NL3035).

The work by Arte Factum, joined by Francisco Orozco, once again offers us a panorama of profame music from the late Middle Ages, together with some of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, compiled by Alfonso X. We have dances, estampidas and saltarellos, troubadour songs, such as the beautiful Kalenda Maia by Rimbaut de Vaqueiras, finishing the trip through the time with the famous Sephardi romanza Ventanas altas,- without forgetting Carmina Burana and the Cantigas de Santa Maria of King Alfonso the Wise. Thus, we travel down four centuries of European music. A long period of time, from the 12th to the 15th century, when purely-instrumental music arose, a time which saw unprecedented development of musical instruments. At all times under the primacy of the human voice, the only instrument capable of conveying melody and words. we find the first instrumental dances, sadly with no indication of the type of instrument, which would lead to the first compositions for keyboards in Italy in the late 14th century. This repertoire, which consisted of melodic lines, with no indication of the instrumentation, is one of the greatest challenges facing musicians specialized in medieval music.