What's new at the
Internet Renaissance Band
July 25, 2001
ListBot, the service that provided the email announcement list, will no longer provide free mailing lists. Because I wasn't really announcing much on it, I've discontinued it.
March 25, 2001
Another format change, to XHTML 1.0 and CSS2 (geek-speak for the emerging new standards for web pages).
September 10, 2000
I have switched the email announcement list from eGroups to ListBot; eGroups had started putting advertisements at the top of announcement list messages rather than the bottom, and some of the ads were somewhat offensive. I'm hoping for better from ListBot.
June 13, 2000
Sorry, no new music this time, but I have converted the web pages to HTML 4 and Cascading Style Sheets. This should make them easier to maintain in the future, and the appearance should improve or at least stay the same for most users (if you are having problems viewing the new pages or if they look bizarre, let me know.
If you have the fonts Venetian 301, Centaur, or Garamond (these often accompany other software, the first two from Corel and the last in Microsoft Office and on Macs), you should see these pages in something just a tad closer to Renaissance typesetting.
December 23, 1999
Lyrics! By popular request (and because it really wasn't all that difficult), I've started to add lyrics when I have them. They are in HTML format (it seemed the most robust way to preserve diacriticals), and are not syllable-divided for underlay. Translations are mine (I don't want to infringe copyrights of others), and I've not used modernized spellings if I had access to originals.
Lyrics are linked to the individual musical pieces. Currently the lyrics are in a directory without an "index.html" file, so if you select the link, you should see a directory listing and can click on individual files, rather than having to hunt through all the music. Also, the lyrics are not currently in the .zip archive. I may eventually change all this.
ANONYMOUS
- Reihentänze (6.1k, 0:57)
- Frog galliard - This may be Morley's arrangement. (5.4k, 0:59)
ARBEAU, Thoinot (1520 - 1595)
- Bransle de chevaux (6.1k, 1:00)
ARCADELT, Jacobus (c.1505-1568)
- Occhi miei lassi (3.9k, 0:49) (lyrics)
DOWLAND, John (1562-1626)
- Come again: Sweet love doth now invite - four-part for winds, as played by the Cucamonga Renaissance Band (7.6k, 2:17)
GERVAISE, Claude (fl. 1540-1560)
- Burgundian/Champagne (7.5k, 1:11)
- Mixed Bransles I/Bransle Double (4.9k, 0:56)
MORLEY, Thomas (1557-1602)
- O mistris mine - Arranged for winds (5.4k, 1:14)
PRAETORIUS, Michael (1571-1621)
- La canarie (5.4k, 0:56)
SUSATO, Tielman (d. c.1561)
VECCHI, Orazio (1550-1605)
- Fa una canzone (3.3k, 0:37)
December 19, 1999
Barely in time for Christmas:
ARBEAU, Thoinot (1520 - 1595)
- Branle l'Official - The dance tune was used for "Ding dong merrily on high" (5.1k, 1:05)
- Jouyssance vous donnerai (3.8k, 1:01)
ANONYMOUS
- Tempus adest floridum - An arrangement for winds of this spring carol that became "Good King Wenceslas" (2.2k, 0:48)
- Greensleeves - Most people seem to associate this tune with the Middle Ages, but I have read that its musical patterns put it firmly in the late 1600s. Other tunes called "Greensleeves" are older. This one became the Christmas song "What Child is This?" The arrangment is the common hymnal version. (4.6k, 1:06)
- Staines morris also was turned into a Christmas carol, "Blessed be that maid Marie" (thanks to Jon Looms for the information). (4.0k, 1:02) (lyrics)
November 6, 1999
The survey is complete; I will post the results when I have them analyzed. I'm still not ready to switch totally to long file names; the Macintosh 31-character limit still gets in the way. But I have made two Win/DOS batch files, longname.bat that converts all the current midis to Win95 long file names, and shortname.bat that converts them back. Other changes are forthcoming.
July 18, 1998
We've moved! The Internet Renaissance Band is now on a new server. Its new home is much more capable than the old, and I could have moved it over a year ago, but the URL of the new server was longer: http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/. Recent consolidation of web services at Cal Poly Pomona have shortened its URL to simply http://www.csupomona.edu/, so I decided to take the plunge. Parts of the Band (specifically the forms and counters) already were running on the new server, and I'm hoping that the switch will improve the overall response of the site.
May 1, 1998
The Internet Renaissance Band in concert!
Music of the Renaissance
GABRIELI, Andrea (c. 1510 - 1586)
- Canzone (5.4k, 1:50)
OBRECHT, Jacob (c. 1450 - 1505)
- T'andernacken (6.8k, 3:14)
February 22, 1998
New license agreement - Personal use is still free, and use on non-commercial web pages requires free registration, but I've clarified some of the commercial uses.
Music of the Renaissance
BRADE, William (1560 - 1630)
- Der erste Mascharada des Pfalzgraffen (5.9k, 0:56)
- Der ander Mascharada (6.0k, 1:05)
- Ich stuend an einem Morgen (6.9k, 3.11)
Mediæval Music
LANDINI, Francesco (c.1325 - 1397)
- Chi più vuol sapere - Was "Ballata" here; thanks to Margo Schulter for providing the name and the proper arrangement of the parts. (3.2k, 1:38)
December 28, 1997
Music of the Renaissance
ALLISON, Richard
- Quadro Pavin - from Morley's "First Book of Consort Lessons", reworked for recorders. (5.2k, 1:55)
- Amor ch'attendi - This may not be anonymous, but I don't have an attribution for it. (5.7k, 1:31)
- Soy contento y vos servido (4.3k, 1:25)
- Triste España sin ventura (3.1k, 1:20)
- The widow's mite (7.0k, 1:09)
- Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen (4.7k, 1:38)
- Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen, revised arrangement for recorders (4.7k, 1:36)
- Groß Leid muß ich tragen - An earlier song on which "Innsbruck" was based (3.8k, 1:13)
- Als ab und hin (5.4k, 1:11)
- Es was eins bauren Töchterlein (5.5k, 1:16)
- Es wollt' ein Maidlein Wasser hol'n (5.4k, 1:03)
- Lust mag mein Herz (3.5k, 1:03)
Mediæval Music
Anonymous
- Song of the Ass - another arrangement (3.7, 1:07)
- Omnis curet homo (3.8k, 1:45)
Cantigas de Santa María
- Santa María amar (3.8, 1:36)
- Como poden (3.2, 1:12)
- Au tems pascor (4.3, 1:09)
- Fi maris de vostre amour (2.3k, 0:39)
LANDINI, Francesco
- Questa fanciull' amor (5.4k, 2:28)
- Partesi con dolore (6.7k, 4:10)
- De bonté, de valour (1.6, 0:38)
- Dous amis (3.7, 1:56)
- Alleluya: Nativitas - revised and enlarged from my previous version (14.7k, 7:19)
Carols
- Angelus ad Virgenem - another arrangement (2.0, 0:40)
- Ther is no rose of swych vertu (2.8, 1:14)
- Patapan - Burgundian (4.3, 0:48)
- Veni, veni Emanuel (4.7, 1:16)
October 19, 1997
Music of the Renaissance
ARBEAU, Thoinot
- Belle qui tiens ma vie (4k, 0:49)
CARA, Marco (fl. early 16th C.)
- Io non compro più speranza (11k, 1:49)
ESCOBAR, Pedro de (fl. 1507-1513)
- Lo que queda es lo seguro (3k, 0:43)
- Missa de nuestra Señora - Pleni sunt (4k, 1:05)
- Pásame por Dios, varquero (3k, 0:36)
- Paséisme aor' allá serrana (3k, 0:22)
- Vencedores son tus ojos (4k, 0:46)
FESTA, Sebastiano (c. 1495-1524)
- O passi sparsi (8k, 2:38)
ANONYMOUS
- Sing care away (to the tune of Hearts Ease) (5k, 1:00)
- Pavane (Philidor MS, 1610) (5k, 1:11)
Mediæval Music
LANCASTER, Henry IV (1367-1413)
- Sanctus - Attributed to "Roy Henri", quite possibly written by the King himself. (6k, 2:06)
Cantigas de Santa María
- Cantiga 1, Esta é a primeira cantiga do loor de Santa Maria (6k, 1:20)
September 5, 1997 - The Early Music Bookstore, sponsored by the Cucamonga Renaissance Ensemble, provides books about Mediæval and Renaissance music in association with Amazon.com.
August 18, 1997 - Sorry, no new music this time (but don't despair). Check out the new form for registering sites that use midis from the Internet Renaissance Band. Also be sure to look at the list of registered sites.
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