De Mar a Mar (From Sea to Sea): Music in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula
Info: 917-861-1531
Tickets: $15
Time: 8pm - 9:30pm
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De Mar a Mar (From Sea to Sea): Music in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula
Sunday, November 9, 2008
8:00 PM
Saint Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
New York, New York
$15 ADMISSION - available at the door only, general seating
www.SENDEBAR.com
SENDEBAR is an international Medieval music ensemble dedicated solely to the performance and scholarship of Medieval Mediterranean music. Directed by musicologist Mauricio Molina and comprising a group of specialists in early and traditional musics of the Mediterranean, the ensemble reconstructs the performance of Medieval music by combining a rigorous study of historical sources with the observation of live traditions that display elements of this ancient practice. The instrumental formation of the group is based primarily on an illumination of the Haggadah de Barcelona, a fourteenth-century Jewish manuscript that shows an ensemble of musicians performing on lute, fiddle, bagpipes, “pipe and tabor” and percussion instruments.
THE CONCERT
De mar a mar (From Sea to Sea): Music in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula
With the Atlantic Ocean to the North and the West and the Mediterranean to the South, the Iberian Peninsula finds itself overwhelmingly framed by the sea. This land, which stands only a few kilometers from the North African coast, possesses an astonishing history of cultural exchange between Christian, Muslims, and Jews. In De mar a mar, Sendebar explores the rich repertoire of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Medieval Iberian music composed in connection with some of the most important cultural centers of the Peninsula. The performance includes Cantigas de Santa Maria ("Songs to the Virgin Mary") by King Alfonso X “The Learned” (13th C.); Cantigas d'Amigo, a particular genre of Iberian Medieval poetry intended to express the female perspective on absent love, by the Galician troubadour Martin Codax (13th C.); courtly songs of the Catalan troubadour Berenguer de Palou (12th C.); and spiritual pieces from the manuscripts known as the Códice las Huelgas (13th C.); and the Llibre Vermell (Red Book) of Montserrat (14th C.), a collection of late Medieval songs written for pilgrims to have something appropriately “chaste and pious” to sing and dance while they keep their vigil outside the church of the Blessed Mary of Montserrat.
FOR MORE INFORMATION and sound clips, visit www.SENDEBAR.com.
Previous Events: July 11, 2007
Future Events: Also, Fri, Nov 7 at 7PM at Mt Carmel Church, 39 E22nd St, Bayonne, NJ
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