La Reverdie
Encyclopedia
La Reverdie is an Italian group performing polyphonic
medieval
and Renaissance music
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Polyphony
In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ....
medieval
Medieval music
Medieval music is Western music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century...
and Renaissance music
Renaissance music
Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance. Defining the beginning of the musical era is difficult, given that its defining characteristics were adopted only gradually; musicologists have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as the 1470s.Literally meaning...
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Group members
- Elisabetta de Mircovich - vocal, vielleVielleThe vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the Medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs. The instrument was also known as a fidel or a viuola, although the French...
- Claudia Caffagni - vocal, luteLuteLute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
, psalteryPsalteryA psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family. The psaltery of Ancient Greece dates from at least 2800 BC, when it was a harp-like instrument... - Livia Caffagni - vocal, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, vielleVielleThe vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the Medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs. The instrument was also known as a fidel or a viuola, although the French... - Doron David Sherwin - vocal, cornettCornettThe cornett, cornetto or zink is an early wind instrument, dating from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It was used in what are now called alta capellas or wind ensembles. It is not to be confused with the trumpet-like instrument cornet.-Construction:There are three basic types of...
Festivals
La Reverdie took part in numerous festivals. An incomplete list is given here:- Festival Cusiano di Musica Antica (San Giulio d'OrtaOrtaOrta, formerly Kari Pazarı, is a town and district of Çankırı Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.-References:A company of Turkish soldiers, the number varying by corps. A jannissary orta in the time of Suleiman comprised 196 men....
1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994,1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2007) - Il Canto delle Pietre (Autunno Musicale di ComoComoComo is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....
1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007) - Tage alter Musik in RegensburgRegensburgRegensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
(1992, 2000) - Festival van Vlaanderen (Bruxelles, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2007)
- Netwerk voor Oude Muziek (UtrechtUtrechtUtrecht is a city in the Netherlands.The name may also refer to:* Utrecht , of which Utrecht is the capital* Utrecht , including the city of Utrecht* Bishopric of Utrecht* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht...
, 1994, 2004) - Festival de Mùsica antiga (BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, 1995) - Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, 1996) - Semana de Musica Antigua (BurgosBurgosBurgos is a city of northern Spain, historic capital of Castile. It is situated at the edge of the central plateau, with about 178,966 inhabitants in the city proper and another 20,000 in its suburbs. It is the capital of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León...
, 1997) - Festival de San Sebastian (2009)
- Rhein-Renaissance ‘97 (CologneCologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
1997) - Rencontres Internationales de Musique Médiévale (Le ThoronetLe ThoronetLe Thoronet is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.It is known for the romanesque Le Thoronet Abbey, built in the 12th and 13th century.-References:*...
) - Festival Musicale Estense (ModenaModenaModena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007) - Settembre Musica (Turin, 1997, 1999)
- MiTo (Milan/Turino 2006)
- Trigonale (Austria, 2009)
- I Concerti del Quirinale (2002)
- Settimane Musicali di StresaStresaStresa is a town and comune of about 5,000 inhabitants on the shores of the Lago Maggiore in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy; it is situated on the road and rail routes to the Simplon pass, about 90 km north-west of Milan. Since the early 20th century, the main source of income has been the...
(2002, 2009) - Festival Musique en Catalogne Romane (Perpignano, 2004)
- Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (JesiJesithumb|250px|Teatro Pergolesi.Iesi is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche, Italy.It is an important industrial and artistic center in the floodplain on the left bank of the Esino river before its mouth on the Adriatic Sea.-History:Iesi was one of the last towns of the Umbri...
, 2005) - RavennaRavennaRavenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and the second largest comune in Italy by land area, although, at , it is little more than half the size of the largest comune, Rome...
Festival (2005, 2007) - York Early Music Festival (2008)