Early American Roots CD

Product Number: 97212CD
ISBN: 078663216X
Publisher: Maggie's Music
Format: Compact Disc (CD)

The vision of HESPERUS is innovative, multi-cultural and historically informed. Its musicians bring the energy and spirit of traditional music to virtuoso performances on folk and early musical instruments. With impressive credentials in early music, they are one of the nation's first, and most important, performers of "chamber folk" music. Early American Roots features spirited new sounds from early Colonial America - from the arrival of the first colonists to the American Revolution and the birth of our republic. Performing on recorders, Baroque violin, viola da gamba, flageolet, hammered dulcimer, cittern and Baroque guitar, the musicians perform high energy improvisations, lively country dance tunes, elegant French cotillions and early American shape-note hymns.

CONTENTS

Song Title:	Composer/Source:
A Sett of Hornpipes	John Playford
A Sett of Jiggs	Apollo's Banquet
Argeers	The Dancing Master
Bobbing Joe Medley: Bobbing Joe	John Playford
Bobbing Joe Medley: Cuckolds All in a Row	John Playford
Bobbing Joe Medley: Parson's Farewell	John Playford
Bobbing Joe Medley: Rufty Tufty	John Playford
Butter'd Peas	James Ralph
Ca Ira	Traditional
Captain Kidd	Southern Harmony
Chelsea Reach	The Dancing Master
Childgrove	The Dancing Master
Daniel Purcell's Ground	John Playford
Daphne	The Dancing Master
John Come Kiss me Now	John Playford
Johnny Cock thy Beaver	The Division Violin
La Poulle	First Book of Cotillions
Lusty Gallant	The Dancing Master
Madison's Whim	John Carr
Nashville	Southern Harmony
New Jersey	First Book of Cotillions
Portsmouth	The Dancing Master
Rockbridge	Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music
Scotch Cap	The Dancing Master
Spirit of Gambo	Tobias Hume
Staines Morris	The Dancing Master
The Ball	First Book of Cotillions
The Colly Flower	First Book of Cotillions
The Garden Hymn	Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music
The Killerman	John Carr
The Merry Milkmaids	The Dancing Master
The Merry Strollers	John Carr
The President's March	Traditional
The Swallow	First Book of Cotillions