Sweetest Sigh

Popular polyphonic music, popular songs, madrigals, duets.
16th century Italian composers

. concerts
. pageants
. teaching activities
. exhibitions
. sacred music
. secular music

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.	chansons d'amour
.	the triumph of bacchus
.	the flower dance
.	bacchus invites us to pleasure and joy
.	sweetest sigh
.	pure white moon
.	thou, my sweet, art my happiness
.	oh bitter sweetness
.	a toast, now pass the flask around!
.	the dream and narcissus
.	serenade
.	messalina
.	the night languishes, moans, sighs
.	if beauty kindles your love
.	liederabend
.	cafe' chantant
.	operatic concert
.	rita

Love poetry is presented in such a way as to move the listener with a perfect reproduction of the use of voice and gesture typical of the period.

performers

1 or 2 women singers and 1 or 2 musicians

instruments

copies of original instruments: flutes, lute, renaissance guitar, theorbo

duration

c. 1 hour

props

copies of late-renaissance costumes, candles, torches

sites

castle courtyard, inside or outside an historic villa, small square, museum, small theatre