Piano Pavane for a Dead Princess: who inspired Ravel's early piano piece? Pavane pour une infante défunte or Pavane for a Dead Princess is a well-known piano piece with a leisurely and charming… February 17, 2021
Orchestra Gabriel Faure's Pavane as the key to modern revival of early genre The pavane—a slow processional dance of Italian origin—was quite common in Europe during the transition period from the… November 3, 2020
Classical Guitar Anthony Holborne: the master of Elizabethan consort music Antony Holborne was an English Renaissance composer whose music for lute and cittern appeared in two important… October 22, 2018
Viol Exceptional sensibility of consort music from the traveling maestro of the Stuart era John Jenkins (1592–1678), lutenist and string player, was the most eminent composer of the Stuart and Commonwealth eras… August 6, 2018
Classical Guitar Flow, My Tears found popularity after John Dowland gave it lyrics Originally composed as an instrumental theme, the lute song Flow, My Tears was created by the English Renaissance… April 28, 2018
Classical Guitar Thomas Morley's legacy in English Renaissance tradition The Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is best known as the father of the English madrigal… April 24, 2018
Harpsichord The Renaissance swan song for the English monarchy Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) was a prominent English composer of the generation that flourished in England in the late… March 11, 2018