Hespèrion XX - Musicque de Ioye (1550)

Around 1550 there appeared at Lyons a collection of instrumental music bearing the marvellous title “Joyous Music. Appropriate for the human voice and for learning how to play spinets, violins and flutes. With Basses Danses, selected Pavanes, Galliards and Branles by which one may learn and get to know the measures and cadences of Music and all dances. Composed by diverse authors, all impeccable musicians excellent in their time.”

Tracklist:

1. Anon. - Bassedance 7
2. Anon. - Tordion 8
3. Roquelay - Ta bonne grace
4. Anon. - Bassedanse 1 « Ta bonne grace »
5. Anon. - Tordion 2
6. Julius de Modena - Ricercare XIII
7. Julius de Modena - Ricercare XXII
8. Julius de Modena - Ricercare XVI
9. Julius de Modena - Ricercare V
10. Clément Janequin - Il estoit une fillette
11. Anon. - Pavane 13 « La Gaiette »
12. Anon. - Pavane 14
13. Anon. - Gailarde 15
14. Gabriel Costa - Ricercare XXIV
15. Julius de Modena or Cabezon - Ricercare XVII
16. Adrian Willaert - Ricercare IV
17. Pierre Sandrin - Helas amy
18. Anon. - Bassedanse 5 « Hellas amy »
19. Anon. - Tordion 6
20. Anon. - Pavane 11 « La Bataille »
21. Julius de Modena - Ricercare VIII
22. Julius de Modena - Ricercare X
23. Hieronimus Parabosco - Ricercare XIV « Da pacem domine »
24. Anon. - Branle simple 22
25. Anon. - Branle de Bourgoigne 23
26. Claude Gervaise - Branle de bourgoigne 17

Jacques Moderne, ed., ca 1550

Playing time: 57' 45"

Performers:
Hespèrion XX
Montserrat Figueras (voice), Jordi Savall (treble viol), Christophe Coin (alto viol), Ariane Maurette (tenor viol), Pere Ros (bass viol, violone), Masako Hirao (bass viol), Roberto Gini (bass viol, percussion), Jeanette van Wingerden (recorders), Lorenzo Alpert (recorders, shawm, percussion), Gabriel Garrido (recorders, shawm, percussion), Sabine Weil (recorders), Bruce Dickey (cornet), Nils Ferber (shawm), Philippe Suzanne (flute), Hopkinson Smith (lute, Renaissance guitar), Ton Koopman (spinet)
Jordi Savall dir.

Recording site and date:
Church of Nenzlingen, Switzerland [01/1978];