Ensemble :
               Soprano                lutes,recorders, 
               Counter - tenor        fiddles, organetto


           A cd will be issued in Sommer 2008 by "Challenge Classics"
           Premiered at the  festival "La Route des Orgues", 2004
           

                              Composers:
                         Don Paolo da Firenze
                         Donato da Firenze
                         Bartolino da Padova
                         Egidius da Francia
                              Anonymes

The songs forming this programme are almost all unknown. Little thing is known about composers too: they were all scholarly monks with master degree, as it was a not so bad social arrangement for poets, thinkers and composers ...

Before the Trecento epoch, the European music had been dominated by the French for approximatively 150 years. In the beginning of the XIV - th century new perspectives appeared in music : the polyphony gained the secular music, so the melodic line assigned to the voice was embellished and got additional harmonies. This was an immense modernisation of the European music development.
Some songs are played as instrumental pieces.