La Mantovana or "Il Ballo di Mantova" (Mantua Dance) is a popular sixteenth-century song attributed to the...

La Mantovana or "Il Ballo di Mantova" (Mantua Dance) is a popular sixteenth-century song attributed to the Italian tenor Giuseppe Cenci, also known as Giuseppino del Biado, (d. 1616) to the text "Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo". Its earliest known appearance in print is in Biado's collection of madrigals of the year 1600. The melody, later also known as "Ballo di Mantova and "Aria di Mantova", gained a wide popularity in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Flemish "Ik zag Cecilia komen", the Polish "Pod Krakowem", the Romanian "Carul cu boi", the Scottish "My mistress is prettie", the Spanish "Virgen de la Cueva" and the Ukrainian "Kateryna Kucheryava". It is best known as the melody of Bedřich Smetana's Vltava and of the Israeli national anthem "Hatikvah".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mantovana?wprov=sfla1

"Between 1769 and 1771, Austrian composer Johann Georg Albrechtsberger wrote at least seven concerti for Jew’s harp...

Originally shared by Allen Varney

"Between 1769 and 1771, Austrian composer Johann Georg Albrechtsberger wrote at least seven concerti for Jew’s harp and strings. He went on to teach Beethoven." (Futility Closet - https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/04/14/something-different/ ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48oOAA8FoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48oOAA8FoY

I love the Silly Sisters album --- the two greatest voices of British Folk Rock, together.

I love the Silly Sisters album --- the two greatest voices of British Folk Rock, together. Edward Morbius and I share similar Anglophilic leanings.

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Maddy Prior & June Tabor

BBC Concert Hall, Lancashire
14-07-1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxbQ1SXBuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYxbQ1SXBuI