We hereby present a collection of Renaissance and Traditional Music in MIDI files. We here must thank: Lory Werths, Dr.J.Curtis Clark and David Miles.
- Renaissance
- Music sorted by Nationalities (in this page):
- Authors (in their respective pages):
- Anonymous or unattributed (in this page)
- Byrd, William
- O'Carolan, Turlough
- Chambonniθres, Jacques Champion de
- Gaultier le Vieux ['Gaultier de Lyon'], Ennemond
- Henry VIII, King
- Luther, Martin
- Maier, Michael
- Morley, Thomas
- O'Carolan, Turlough
- Pinell, Germain
- Ravenscroft, Thomas
- Saint-Luc, Jacques de
- Tallard, Camille
- Other Authors listed in the following pages: [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]
particularly on the Anonymous section from the A page.
See also: Polish Christmas Carols and other (European) Carols
Renaissance
Anonymous or unattributed
MIDI Greensleeves
Most people seem to associate this tune with the Middle Ages, but I have read that its musical patterns put it firmly in the late 1600s. Other tunes called Greensleeves are older. This one became the Christmas song What Child is This?. The arrangment is the common hymnal version. Greensleeves had been also attribuited to King Henry VIII.
MIDI Sing care away (to the tune of Hearts Ease)
MIDI Pavane for shawm band (Philidor MS., 1610)
MIDI Be peace! Ye make me spill my ale!
MIDI This day day dawes
MIDI The three ravens
This is probably the Thomas Ravenscroft setting of this traditional tune.
MIDI Ich seg adieu
MIDI Die Katzenpfote (ca. 1480)
MIDI Viv' el gran Re Don Fernando
Italian song commemorating the expulsion of the Moors from Spain in 1492.
MIDI Elslein, liebstes Elslein
German folk song; see also the arrangement by Ludwig Senfl.
MIDI Pase el agua, ma Julieta
MIDI Duo - More early Baroque than Renaissance
MIDI Reihentδnze
MIDI Frog galliard - This may be Morley's arrangement
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Celtic:
Irish traditional Tunes:
MIDI Down by the Sally garden, air
Sequences by Lory Werths
See also: O'Carolan, Turlough
Scottish traditional / Renaissance Songs:
MIDI Auld Lang Syne
Traditional Scottish Song with verses by Robert Burns
MIDI Scottish Tune
MIDI O lusty may (ca. 1545)
MIDI Wo worth the tyme (ca. 1545)
MIDI How suld my febill body fure
MIDI Depairte, depairte (ca. 1545)
MIDI Loch Lomond / Blue Bells of Scotland (Scottish medley)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Czech:
MIDI Gigue in d minor, by Anonymous (1725)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Dutch:
Dutch Renaissance Songs:
MIDI Cushion Dance
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Dutch anonym Pieces:
MIDI Rigaudon in C major (ca. 1730)
MIDI Menuett mit Variation in d minor (ca. 1730)
MIDI Furlana Italiana in a minor (ca. 1730)
MIDI Menuett in A major (ca. 1730)
MIDI Passepied in B flat major (ca. 1730)
MIDI Rondeau in C major (ca. 1730)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
English:
English Songs:
MIDI The black nag, traditional jig (Gigue)
MIDI Greensleeves
MIDI Hearts ease (ca. early 1500s)
MIDI Come live with me and be my love
MIDI Dulcina
MIDI Fortune my foe
MIDI Fortune my foe*
* Possibly damaged
MIDI All in a garden green
MIDI I loathe that I did love
MIDI John, come kiss me now
MIDI Row well, ye mariners (circa 1565)
MIDI Sellenger's round
MIDI Packington's pound
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
English Country dances
MIDI The shepherds hey - A traditional Morris Dance tune.
MIDI Staines morris
MIDI The new rigged ship (Piper's fancy)
MIDI Rufty tufty
MIDI Country jig
MIDI Cobbler's hornpipe
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Elizabethan songs:
MIDI Walsingham
MIDI Welladay (Lord Essex's last good-night)
MIDI Lord Willoughby
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
[English] Rounds
MIDI Roundel (1453)
MIDI Now thanked be the great god Pan (1609)
MIDI As I was walking (1609)
MIDI Hey, ho! what shall I say? (1609)
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Shakespearean songs:
MIDI Light of love
MIDI O mistress mine
MIDI When that I was and a little tiny boy
MIDI Whoop! Do me no harm, good man
MIDI Willow, willow
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
French:
French renaissance Dances:
MIDI Tangle branle (Branle de Bourgoigne)
MIDI Belle qui tiens ma vie (Pavane in g minor)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Traditional French country dances:
MIDI Bransles
MIDI Bas Dances
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
MIDI Anonymous: Sarabande in C (ca. 1650)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
German:
MIDI Anonymous: Zwei Menuett (ca. 1670)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
German anonym Pieces:
MIDI Aria in b minor
MIDI Ballet in D major
MIDI Bouree in F major (ca. 1700)
MIDI Bouree in C major (ca. 1730)
MIDI Courante in a minor
MIDI Favorita in D major (ca. 1695)
MIDI Gavotta in A major (ca. 1695)
MIDI Menuett in C major (ca. 1740)
MIDI Menuett in D major (?)
MIDI Piθce in A major (ca. 1740)
MIDI Rondeau in a minor (ca. 1730)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Suite in b minor (transposed to d minor) (ca. 1700)
MIDI 1. Allemande
MIDI 2. Courante
MIDI 3. Sarabande
MIDI 4. Bourrιe
MIDI 5. Menuett
MIDI 6. Gigue
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Italian:
Medieval Italian Dances:
MIDI 1. Saltarello
MIDI 2. Trotto
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Italian dances:
MIDI La bergamasca
MIDI La girometta
MIDI La montagnura
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Polish:
MIDI Bouree in F major (ca. 1730)
MIDI Harlequin (ca. 1730)
MIDI Gavotte in d minor (ca. 1730)
MIDI Menuett in d minor (ca. 1730)
Collection of Renaissance music by Lory Werths
Spanish:
MIDI Corten espados afilados
Sequence by © David Miles
Medieval
Anonymous or unattributed:
MIDI Deo gracias Anglia (the Agincourt Carol)
MIDI Tant a soutille
MIDI Conductus
MIDI Benedicamus domino [Melismatic organum]
MIDI Agnus dei [Free organum]
MIDI Angelus ad virginem
MIDI Angelus ad Virgenem [another arrangement]
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
MIDI Omnis curet homo
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
MIDI Sumer is icumen in
MIDI Summer is icumen in [another arrangement]
The earliest extant English round, from the 13th century. Attr. to John of Fornsete.
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Cantigas de Santa Marνa
MIDI 1. Cantiga 1, Esta ι a primeira cantiga do loor de Santa Maria
MIDI 2. Santa Marνa amar
MIDI 3. Como poden
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Instrumental dances (classification from McGee, Medieval Instrumental Dances):
Bassa Danza
MIDI Bel fiore danηa
Estampie:
MIDI La quarte estampie royal
MIDI Another version, on this page before as Danse Royale
Nota:
MIDI Nota
MIDI Nota
MIDI Nota
Saltarelli:
MIDI Saltarello
MIDI Saltarello
Tenor:
MIDI Czaldy Waldy
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Estampies:
MIDI Estampie
MIDI Estampie (12th c.)
MIDI Estampie (14th c.)
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
MIDI Ductia
MIDI Danse Royale
MIDI La Rotta (14th c.)
MIDI Lamento di Tristano
MIDI Song of the Ass
MIDI Song of the Ass [another version]
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Carols
Mediζval
MIDI Resonet in laudibus
MIDI Verbum caro factum est: In hoc anni circulo
MIDI Edi beo thu hevene quene (14th c.)
MIDI Tempus adest floridum (originally a springtime carol, this became Good King Wenceslas)
MIDI Tempus adest floridum (an arrangement for winds)
MIDI Coventry carol
MIDI Angelus ad virginem
MIDI Angelus ad Virgenem - another arrangement
MIDI Ther is no rose of swych vertu
MIDI Veni, veni Emanuel
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Renaissance
MIDI Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her (by Martin Luther, arr. Michael Praetorius)
MIDI While shepherds watched their flocks by night (by Christopher Tye, arr. Richard Alison)
MIDI Gaudete!
MIDI Dadme albricias, hνjos d'Eva, villancico
MIDI E la don don, Verges Marνa, villancico
MIDI Rνu, rνu, chνu, villancico
MIDI Verbum caro factum est: Y la Virgen le dezia, villancico
MIDI In dulci jubilo (14th century, arr. Bartholomew Gesius, 1601)
MIDI Es ist ein' Rφs' entsprungen (Traditional, arr. Michael Praetorius)
MIDI Branle l'Official - The dance tune by Arbeau was used for Ding dong merrily on high
MIDI Staines morris was also turned into a Christmas carol, Blessed be that maid Marie
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
Traditional Carols of uncertain antiquity
MIDI Greensleeves [Most people seem to associate this tune with the Middle Ages, but I have read that its musical patterns put it firmly in the late 1600s. Other tunes called Greensleeves are older. This one became the Christmas song What Child is This? The arrangment is the common hymnal version - C. Clark]
MIDI Patapan - Burgundian
MIDI The wassail song
MIDI The boar's head - A Renaissance-style arrangement
MIDI The boar's head - A more modern arrangement
MIDI The holly and the ivy - An overtly Pagan song recast for Christmas
MIDI Jeanette, Isabella
MIDIs of Medieval and Renaissance period, by © Dr.J.Curtis Clark
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