Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999
The music of Shakespeare's England - ballad tunes, country dances and elegant consorts - seems at first to be quintessentially English. Yet many of these tunes, as popular dances or in the high-art variations of division music, were inspired by Celtic and Spanish styles. In variations, from 17th-century manuscripts and in improvised divisions, 'gypsy' ballads are metamorphosed into exquisite consort music.