Historical programs :

More musicologically oriented, they are aimed at  illustrating specific periods in the history of Western music, and furthering a better access to the work of some famous musicians.They group together pieces around famous manuscripts, specific forms, reknown places. La Maurache reaches a unity of style deprived of monotony, and embraces these different types of music by diversifying them, thus taking into account the fact that the current liking for "integral" recordings meets a contemporary intellectual demand, but does not really reflect historical accuracy.
-Adam de la Halle (1240-1288), Guillaume de Machault (1300-1377). From Ars Antiqua to Ars Nova, from the monody of the trouveres to polyphony, through the works of two musicians and poets who had parallel lives and who exemplified medieval music with dignity.
13th- 14th Centuries (main themes) :
-Italian Laudi Spirituali from the time of Saint Francis of Assisi./ -The trouveres and the School of Notre-Dame in Paris.
-The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat, songs of pilgrims on the way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain./ -The Carmina Burana, songs of the goliards (scholars who travelled a lot) and vagrants./ -The Cantigas de Santa Maria of King Alfonso El Sabio, in Spain.
-Famous manuscripts : Arsenal, Cangé, Bamberg, Las Huelgas, Montpellier.../ -Songs to the Virgin of the Trouvere Gauthier de Coincy./ -The art of minstrels in the 13th century : carols, estampies, virelais, rondeaux...
-Ars Nova in Italy and France (Landini, Machaut).
14th-15th Centuries :
-The Ars Subtilior : from Machault to Dufay.
-The French Chanson of the  15th century, from the time of François Villon.
-The  "chanson"  is the main expression of musical art during the late Middle-Ages ; it gave many French -Flemish composers at the Court of Burgundy the opportunity of give of their best : Binchois, Dufay, Ockeghem, Van Guizeghem, Morton, Fontaine...
-The secular works of Josquin des Prés (1440-1521) . There are over eighty songs and instrumental pieces, revealing a little-known facet of this great composer, who links the Middles-Ages and the Renaissance; little jewels displaying the most varied poetic musical forms and language.
-Music in Italy and Spain from the time of Christopher Columbus. This programme was designed for the five hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World (1492-1992).
Renaissance (16th Cent.) :
-Villancicos, romances taken from the most famous cancioneros (Palacio Real, Colombina, Upsalla...). Pieces for vihuela da mano, lutes, viols...by J. Urreda, F. de la Torre, Penalosa, J.del Encina, Escobar.../ -Music from the time of Henry VIII and Elisabeth the First, W. Byrd, J. Dowland, J. Bull... Lutes, viols, voices...Works of the  "gentlemen-musicians" of the Court.
-The Huguenot Psalter (Hymns of the Reformed Protestant Church in France). L. Bourgeois, C. Goudimel, Pascal de L'Estocart, C. Le Jeune.../ -Polyphonic french songs (Janequin, Roland de Lassus...) and Danceries (Gervaise, Attaingnant, Susato, Praëtorius...)

Mixed programs :
A range of accessible pieces, aimed at an open-minded though inexperienced audience that discovers medieval and Renaissance music...
Other themes and topics may be treated or taken up on request and at reasonable notice.Parts or extracts of these programmes may be recombined according to varied guidelines.
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