The Early Music Legend

The following two reviews appear to be reasonably informed reviews on DMs classic Music of the Crusades. They emanate from Amazon.  Marvelous recreations of music from the time of the Crusades, 6 July 2004 By  Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)  This review is from: Music of the Crusades (Audio CD) Of the "Music of the Crusades" collected on this very interesting album, several actually deal with the Crusades. I am always on the look out for interesting bits of music and film that can be used in history classes to bring the period alive for students and this certainly qualifies. This album contains examples of different types of songs, sung mostly in French and Latin. The lyrics alone are fascinating ("The French are degenerate if they refuse to support God, for I have warned them") and one song, "Ja nus hons pris," is attributed to Richard the Lion-Heart. Teachers covering the Middle Ages can certainly find a song or two to share wit...

As a teenager I was fascinated by history, and art. My first introduction to early music proper ofcourse was via a Munrow record. In the early 70s his Early Music Consort dominated the scene unlike now where there are any number of ensembles dealing with medieval, and renaissance music such as Piffaro, the Clemencic Consort, the Orlando Consort, Gothic Voices, et al. Anyway, on occassion I would listen to Pied Piper on the radio especially when it dealt with early music. I notably recall the Feast of the Pheasant which drew its musical extracts from Munrows own record album of The Art of Courtly Love album notably dealing with Machaut, and Dufay. It was clear that he used his own printed "notes" from this recording for this specific broadcast. I seem to recall too a broadcast on Pied Piper of his Se La Face Ay Pale by Dufay. He referred to it as being "rich, and expressive." Munrows voice seem to shake when he mentioned that Dufay died in 1474. One Pied Piper progra...