"Three-part secular compositions ... [showing] the gradual transition from medieval to Renaissance style ... We have chosen to remain in the liminal zone between ancient and modern, a time when three was quite a lot"--Notes, p. 6-7.

Compact disc.

Program notes by the performers in German, English & French, & vocal texts with German, English & French translations (by the performers) inserted in container. Manuscript sources listed in Notes, p. 2.

Recorded Aug. 19-25, 1999 in the Klosterkirche zu Hamersleben.

Sung in Italian, Middle English, Old & Middle French, or Middle High German.

Dove, dove, or dove è le mio signore.

Absence of you causeth me to sigh.

Adieu vous di.

Madre che festi colui che te fece.

A Florence-Hélas la fille Guillemin.

Je voi très bien-Mon cure n'averoye.

Dove, dove, or dove è le mio signore : lauda / anon. 15th cent. (2:03)

Gentil madonna / Bedyngham (2:34) -

Absence of you causeth me to sigh / anon. late 15th cent. (2:27)

Adieu vous di : ballade / anon. late 14th cent. (3:42)

Notés pour moi : ballade / Antonello da Caserta (3:45)

Puis qu'en oubli : rondeau / Machaut (2:22)

A le' s'andrà lo spirto : ballata / Landini (5:08)

Sag an herczlieb-Los frow / Wolkenstein (2:52)

Wol auff gesell, wer iagen well : contrafact zu der Ballade "Fuies de moi" [from] Codex Reina / Wolkenstein (2:17)

O rosa bella / Bedyngham (4:53)

Madre che festi colui che te fece : lauda / anon. 15th cent. (3:54)

Farewell my joy / Robert Cooper ; from Henry VIII's song book (2:26)

Je me complains piteusement : ballade / Dufay (2:12)

A Florence-Hélas la fille Guillemin / anon. mid-15th cent. (4:46)

Je voi très bien [text]-Mon cure n'averoye [music] / anon. late 14th cent. (6:58)

Une vipere en cuer : ballade / Machaut (6:59)

Muort' oramai : ballata / Landini (5:43).

Music > 500-1400.

Music > 15th century.