Pavan - La morte de la ragione (Anon, c. 1520s)

[Martin Jonas]

Anonymous: Pavan - La morte de la ragione
From the Fitzalan partbooks, c. 1520s

This is an Italian renaissance tune, from the Fitzalan partbooks in the British Library. These tunes date from the Tudor courtier Henry Fitzalan’s trip to Italy in 1560. The dances themselves may have been in circulation since the 1520s. There are very few surviving examples of harmonised Italian dances of the period (most are from later in the century). The Fitzalan partbooks are a rare example of an apparently complete set of parts.

I have used a transcription from Steve Hendricks:

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Italian/morte.pdf

My recording is on mandolin, waldzither, tenor guitar and mandocello.

1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
1920s Zimmermann waldzither
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello



After recording my version, I also came across a very nice live performance on Youtube, from a concert by Capella Aquisgrana -- featuring no less an authority than Prof. Marga Wilden-Hüsgen herself on baroque mandolin and Marlo Strauß on baroque guitar:

Link

Martin

[BluesPreacher]

Very nice!