Knights, Knaves, and Amorous Escapades

A concert that explores music before 1400 that celebrates such legendary characters as Robin, Marion, Tristan and Arthur, through a range of musical forms: including monophonic song, carol, pastorelle, instrumental pieces, the motets and ballade. Much of this music was composed for performance by the composers themselves; often in a public and competitive arena to a critical adn discerning audience who would have been fully conversant with the mythic characters and their deeds. Some of the legendary characters, like the composers themselves, were high born; but others were rustics or ruffians.

Come along and experience the rollicking interplay between the social classes, the sexes, and the urban folk and the rustics, in this panoply of medieval society.

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