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Released in Dec 2008:
English country dances of the late 17th century in new solo and duo arrangements
You can download printable program notes here, or skip ahead to sound clips from the recording.
Shulamit Kleinerman specializes in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance on historical stringed instruments. Upon graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 with a BA in music and English, she won a Hertz Fellowship to study historical violin technique in London with leading early-music violinists including Monica Huggett.
Shula moved to Seattle in 2000 and has performed as a chamber musician in several concerts sponsored by the Early Music Guild at Town Hall and other venues. As a historical dancer from 2004-2006 with Seattle Early Dance, she performed at Benaroya Hall and in the Early Music Guilds fully-staged production of the late-17th-century opera Venus and Adonis at ACT. Shula also enjoys playing music in historically-themed contexts and has appeared with the Puget Sound Revels and the Portland Revels and at historical fairs including Camlann Medieval Village. She has been heard on KING-fm, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KBCS, where she has been a featured guest twice on "Mostly Medieval." This year she is completing a CD of English country dance music of the 17th century in an artist residency at Jack Straw Productions.
Shula regularly writes and lectures about music history, and in addition to teaching private music lessons, she runs her own hands-on historical arts workshops for school-age children.
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This companion volume of sheet music presents the album's seventeen original duo arrangements, some for two treble instruments and some for treble and bass. These are transcriptions -- some more literal than others -- of the sets that emerged collaboratively during the recording project. The harmonies are fun to play, and they represent a satisfying variety of styles (and difficulty!) of accompaniment for the tunes. Since they were created to custom-fit the instruments, the players, and the occasions when we came together, there's nothing absolute about these arrangements. Feel free to take them as jumping-off points for your own ideas -- or play them just as they are!
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Sound Clips
17c country dance in original arrangements
Hey Boys, Up Go We with Charles Coldwell, recorder
Europe's Revels with Arcana Ferschke, violin