TERRA
COTTA
Track 8: Oy Comamos y Bebamos/Tourdion (15th
century Spanish/French) 4:49
Barry: recorders, stone fiddle, tuned doumbeks, cornetto and clay horn
stone
fiddle
Listen to an excerpt of "Oy Comamos/Tourdion"
Well-crafted melodies are timeless. Here are a few from Renaissance Europe - a Spanish villancico and a French drinking song. The bass line is played on a series of doumbeks, or goblet drums, each tuned to a specific pitch.
clay recorders
from the CD "TERRA COTTA" by The Burnt Earth Ensemble ©2005 all rights reserved