Program

Storytelling Through Solo Song

Baroque Ensemble voice students perform solo songs from the 14th century to the English ballad and Appalachian traditions. 

Anonymous
‘Penser ne doit vilenie’ (Trouvère chanson with refrain)

Peirol
‘Del sieu tort farai esmenda’ (Troubadour canso in vers form)

Guiot de Dijon
‘Chanterai por mon coraige’ (Trouvère chanson with refrain)

Wizlau von Rügen
‘We ich han gedacht’ (Minnesinger song)

G. F. Handel
 from Suite for Harpsichord in E Major
   Prelude
   Allemande

Anonymous
‘Worldes blis ne last no throwe’ (English lyric poem)

Juan del Encina
‘Soy contento y vos servida’ (Spanish villancico)

Hans Sachs
‘Gesangweise’ (Meistersinger song)

Joan Ambrosio Dalza
Tastar del corde, Recercar dietro

(fl. early 16^th century)
Pavana alla Venetiana

Adam de la Halle
‘Robins m’aime’
(Trouvère rondeau from Jeu de Robins et de Marion

‘I must and I will get married’
Sung by Mrs. Margaret Jack Dodd at Beechgrove, VA, May 25, 1918

‘The Rejected Lover’
Sung by Mrs. Jane Gentry at Hot Springs, NC, August 25, 1916

‘The Single Girl’
Sung by Mrs. Ellie Johnson at Hot Springs, NC, September 15, 1916

‘The Miller’s Will’
Sung by William Wooton at Hindman, Knott County, KY, September 21, 1917

Luis de Milán
Fantasia I

‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’
Sung by Mr. Sol. and Miss Virginia Shelton at Alleghany, NC, July 29, 1916

‘William and Nancy’
Sung by Mrs. Mandy Shelton at Carmen, NC, August 11, 1916

Anonymous
‘Au renouvel du tens’ (trouvère pastourelle in lai form)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Passacaglia for solo violin

‘The Dear Companion’
Sung by Mrs. Rosie Hensley at Carmen, NC, August 8, 1916

‘The Shoemaker’
Sung by Mrs. Carrie Ford at Black Mountain, NC, September 19, 1916

‘The Two Brothers’
Sung by Mrs. Lizzie Roberts & Mrs. Smith, Hot Springs, NC, September 15, 1916

‘Barbara Allen’
Sung by Miss Lula McCoy at Chicopee, GA, 1914

‘Married and Single Life’
Sung by Mrs. Mary Sands at Allanstand, NC, August 3, 1916

Appalachian songs transcribed by Cecil Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell, published as “English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians” (1917).

Performers

Morgan Balfour soprano
Karen Notovitz soprano
Jessie Barnett mezzo-soprano
Kaitlin Bertschi mezzo-soprano
Elizabeth Dickerson mezzo-soprano
Dajeong Song mezzo-soprano
Matheus Coura countertenor
Brandon Bell bass-baritone
Radames Gil baritone
Jonathan Mendle lute
Shelby Yamin baroque violin
Margarita Pinkosz harpsichord