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Suffolk Villages Festival concert - PELLINGMANS' SARABAND: Twenty Waies upon the Bels
Grounds and Rounds from Shakespeare's Time. This fascinating programme presents a vivid glimpse of domestic music-making in Shakespeare’s England by focussing on the tradition of playing divisions on a ground bass – the equivalent of our jazz tradition. Skilled musicians would improvise over a repeated chord sequence (the ‘ground’) or play variations on a popular tune, often with astonishing inventiveness and virtuosity. The programme includes ingenious rounds by Thomas Ravenscroft, the fi
10.30am. Tickets: £15 & £10 (half-price tickets available to full-time students) from The National Centre for Early Music (www.ncem.co.uk)
Church of St Mary, Boxford, Suffolk CO10 5JT
Mon 25 Aug 2014
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