The Ludlow Waites

 incorporating the early music group MORISCA

 Ludlow coat of arms

 

Morisca's archives of early music

A collection of stuff dumped in this corner while we decide where to park it.

Publications

Hans Gerle "Music and Tablature", Nuremberg 1546 translated by Steve Heavens.  Available from www.lulu.com

Communications to FoMRHI Quarterly

1327: Praetorius' Brass Instruments and Cammerthon

1328: Praetorius' pitchpipe Pfeifflin zur Chormass

1603, 1754: Schmelzer's Violino Piffaro 

1645: Review - Streichbogen (Katalog der Sammlungen alter Musikinstrumente, Wien)

1679: Review - CD Two upon a Ground, Charivari Agreable

Early Baroque Chamber Music

Foscarina was an earlier incarnation of Morisca that included several players from the waits of York, Gloucester and Ludlow, playing serious music from the 17th century.  Here is one of their programmes, compiled for a performance at Chester Zoo: Monteverdi's Flying Circus.