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Source: Melody – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
Melodiya has released an album of early music performed by the ensemble Traditerra. The group, collaborating for the label for the first time, has recorded secular instrumental pieces by Michael Praetorius, one of the key composers and collectors of 17th-century German music. He is also known for his treatise "The Structure of Music," which has become an important source for historically informed performance—a movement that studies medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music-making practices and brings them back to concert halls and studios.
The album includes pieces from "Terpsichore, the Fifth of the Aonian Muses," the only surviving collection of Praetorius's dance music, with instrumental arrangements of mostly French melodies for Nanters. Praetorius prepared this material for the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, recording compositions fashionable among the aristocracy. From nearly three hundred pieces, the Traditerra ensemble selected ten, emphasizing variations of the branle—an ancient, leisurely circle dance. The ensemble used authentic instruments mentioned by Praetorius, including Renaissance bagpipes, cittern, four-row guitar, recorders, and percussion.
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