La petite bande de la demoiselle de Nemours, the instrumental Collegium Musicum of the University of Delaware, was founded in the Fall of 1991. The ensemble is open to undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Music, other departments of the University of Delaware, and members of the community. La bande de Nemours makes use of a substantial collection of period instruments and performs music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque.

Ensembles are formed based on the performers' interest and abilities. A sample of possible ensembles:

• Recorder Consort
• Crumhorn Consort
• Medieval Soft Ensemble (lute, harp, flute, fiddle)
• Renaissance Dance Band (3-5 mixed instruments or massed winds and strings, 8-20 players)
• Renaissance Loud Band (shawms and sackbuts)
• Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
• Baroque Trumpet Ensemble
• English Broken Consort (violin/viol, flute, lute, cittern, harpsichord and bass viol)

The University of Delaware Baroque Chamber Ensemble, founded in the Spring of 1997, specializes in the chamber music of the Baroque era, played on period instruments.  The instrumentation of the ensemble includes strings, flute, oboe, recorder, horn, bassoon and harpsichord.  The ensemble is directed by David Myford.
 

November 11, 8:00 & November 12, 2:00:  Early Italian Opera

Loudis Recital Hall
Amy E. Dupont Music Building
University of Delaware Campus
Admission: $6 adults, $3 students

A staged perfromance of excerpts from Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with scenes from works by Cavilli, Cesti, and others.  In conjuction with the University of Delaware Opera Workshop, Patrick Evans and Marie Robinson, Directors.

Bayrad Sharp Hall
University of Delaware Campus
Free Admission

Renaissance and Baroque music performed by La petite bande de la demoiselle de Nemours, The Consort of Voyces, and The University of Delaware Baroque Chamber Ensemble.
 

April 16
May 9

Monday, 7:00-8:30

• Baroque Chamber Ensemble

• Cornetts and Sackbuts, Loud Ensembles

• The Consort of Voyces

• Recorders and Winds

Selected Medieval and Renaissance Links

• The Crumhorn Homepage
• Early Music America
• Early Music FAQ (for rec.music.early and EARLYM-L)
• Early Music Vocal Ensembles (EMVE List)
• Early Music Women Composers
• Electric Early Music (Japan)
• Fourteenth Century Music Databases
• Gregorian Chant Home Page (Georgetown)
• Hildegard of Bingen Homepage
• Period Instrument Performance Ensembles (PIPE List)
• Tutorial on Gregorian Chant (University of Vienna)
• Vatican Exhibit: Early Manuscripts
• White Mensural Notation
• Hurdy-gurdy: Alden Hackmann's Page
• Lute Home Page (Arto Wikla)
• The Renaissance Rackett

Russell E. Murray, Jr.
Department of Music
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-6287
remurray@udel.edu
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