From the 14th Century Tuscan manuscript in the British Library Add MS 29987, here is the famous Saltarello #2. Performed by Daniel Shoskes on a 5 course medieval gittern built by George Stevens. #medieval #medievalmusic
God... I played this with the school orchestra as a kid almost 15 years ago... just clicking on a random video and hearing this familiar song gives me fealings of great nostalgia.
This is amazing. As a banjo player i love and appreciate all historical stringed instruments. You played so beautifully. Thank you for sharing this with us. Took me back in time!
I missed this one ... Excellent, indeed ! Thomas Binkley and The Studio der Frühen Musick gave another wonderful setting of this tune using flute, percussions, viola ... It gave me with a Renaissance lute, obviously less in the spirit of the times ... one of my "records " concerning the number of views with (I play too slowly) setting by Alain Veylit and the famous John Renbourn many, many, many years ago, away : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Suefvo2bk9Y.html For the public in a theater of course the reference is perhaps Dead can dance ... The original music is very, very hard to understand, indeed ! And specialists do not agree ... Congratulations ! All the best, Roger😃🍀🌞🎼🎵🎶
Several professional teachers in and around NYC, Chris Morrongiello, Daniel Swenberg, Kenneth Bé to name a few. Check out the Lute Society of America page under "hire a professional"
Being one of few surviving original medieval tunes, and a really catchy one at that, and, of course, free of copyright, this tune is used almost everywhere if the theme is even vaguely "medieval". Where I live, it is also often played as ambience on renaissance faires, museum events, reenactments, then of course video games, movies, ads, you name it. I think we all have heard this tune a hundred times already without knowing.
Not as common to find as other lutes but there are builders in the US, UK, and Europe. Mine is from George Stevens in England and he is currently finishing a few for sale (Google his name for the shop website)
