Word: shawm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RENAISSANCE BAND (Decca) contains pictures and demonstrations of archaic instruments such as the sackbut, the shawm and the krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
...performance of the 12th century Play of Daniel revived interest in the all but forgotten music composed during the five centuries before Bach; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Greenberg dressed his players in medieval garb and used original instruments, mostly odd-looking woodwinds with such names as zink, shawm and Rauschpfeife...
...this appearance, Noah Greenberg conducted the New York Pro Musica's augmented Motet Choir, a thirty-five member group including six countertenors and ten boy choristers from New York's Little Church Around the Corner. The instrumental section consisted of two sackbuts, a shawm and a cornetto. This ensemble produced a terribly impressive, almost ethereal range of tonal coloring that perfectly suited the spiritual splendor of the programme...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...