Everything That Spring Can Bring

JOHN FREMGEN (DOUBLE BASS) JEFF HELLMER (PIANO) BRANNEN TEMPLE (DRUMSET) ELIAS HASLANGER (TENOR SAXOPHONE), JOHN FREMGEN

Courtly song, which dominated secular vocal music in France in the early seventeenth century, lived up to its name. It was music written largely to conform with the manners and conventions cultivated at the courts of Kings Henri IV and especially Louis XIII where the King's favour became the ultimate mark of success and source of power. When Besard and Bataille first published these airs with lute accompaniments they were probably only restoring them to something like their original conception, for the lute was the standard compositional tool for these songwriters much as the piano would be for nineteenth century composers or the guitar for popular songwriters today.

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