THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents
“Songs and Stories of the Middle Ages”
FSU Early Music Ensembles
Renaissance Instrumental Ensemble & Early Vocal Ensemble
Miranda Penley and Sarah Eyerly, directors
Friday, April 14, 2023
7:30 p.m. | Dohnányi Recital Hall
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Reading:
Le Morte d’Arthur Thomas Malory (c.1400–c.1470)
Miranda Penley, reader
Rondeau Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377)
Alle Psallite Cum Luya Anonymous
13th century
La Lavendara (Galliarde) Anonymous
15th century
Reading:
Canzone: “Amor, che ne la mente mi ragiona” Dante Alighieri (c.1265–1321)
Alex Lee, reader
Ut Queant Laxis Anonymous
14th century
Viderunt Omnes (Abridged) Pérotin (fl. c. 1200)
Cuncti Simus Anonymous
Stella Splendens 14th century from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
Carole Anonymous
13th century
— Brief Intermission —
Reading:
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340s–1400)
Rachel Shapiro, reader
Hurdy Gurdy Tunes Traditional
Credo Guillaume de Machaut from Messe de Nostre Dame (1300–1377)
Reading:
Miranda Penley, reader
Nebulosus Montibus David Donaldson (b.1960) arr. Litore
Miri It Is Anonymous 13th Century
Sumer is Icumen In Anonymous 13th century
Renaissance Instrumental Ensemble Personnel
Advanced Recorders: Ethan Lippert, Robert Alexander, Josie Whiteis, Miranda Penley
Rachel Shapiro, Kaleb Ward, John Valencia-Londono, Alex Lee, Sarah Barfield
Beginning Recorders: Nic Kanipe, Jordan Lenchitz, Alexei Kovalev, Jacob Wicks
Crumhorns: Sarah Barfield, Miranda Penley, Robert Alexander, Rachel Shapiro
Shawms: Rachel Shapiro, Miranda Penley, Nic Kanipe, Robert Alexander, Josie Whiteis
Percussion: Emma Jensen
Early Vocal Ensemble Personnel
Cody Whiddon, tenor; Jordan Lenchitz, baritone; Kaleb Ward, baritone; Timothy Yu, baritone
TEXT
Sumer is Icumen In
Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuckou!
Groweth seed and bloweth meed, And springth the wude nu.
Sing cuckou!
Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu, Bulloc sterteth, bucke verteth, Merye sing cuckou!
Cuckou, cuckou, Wel singes the cuckou: Ne swik thu naver nu!