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Martin Best, the Glossary

Martin Best (born 13 April 1942) is an English singer, lutenist, guitarist, and composer.^[1]

25 relations: Bernart de Ventadorn, Bertran de Born, Birger Sjöberg, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Carl Michael Bellman, Cittern, Early music, Fred Åkerström, Fredmans epistlar, Fredmans sånger, Giraut de Bornelh, Guiraut Riquier, Lena Willemark, Lute, Minstrel, Nils Lindberg, Paul Britten Austin, Peggy Ashcroft, Renaissance music, Royal Shakespeare Company, Scandinavian ballad tradition, Swedish Radio Choir, Troubadour, William Shakespeare, Zither.
Interpreters of Carl Michael Bellman's works
Music of Sweden

Bernart de Ventadorn

Bernart de Ventadorn (also Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn; –) was a French poet-composer troubadour of the classical age of troubadour poetry.

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Bertran de Born

Bertran de Born (1140s – by 1215) was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the 12th-13th century.

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Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, novelist and songwriter, whose best-known works include the faux-naïf song collection Fridas Bok (Frida's Book) and the novel Kvartetten Som Sprängdes (The Quartet That Split Up), a somewhat Dickensian relation about stock-exchange gambling in the twenties, and the frantic efforts to recover.

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Cantigas de Santa Maria

The Cantigas de Santa Maria ("Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile ''El Sabio'' (1221–1284).

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Carl Michael Bellman

Carl Michael Bellman (4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer.

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Cittern

The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750).

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Fred Åkerström

Fred Bo Gunnar Åkerström (27 January 1937 – 9 August 1985) was a Swedish folk guitarist and singer particularly noted for his interpretations of Carl Michael Bellman's music, and his own work of the typically Swedish song segment named visa. Martin Best and Fred Åkerström are Interpreters of Carl Michael Bellman's works.

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Fredmans epistlar

Fredmans epistlar (English: Fredman's Epistles) is a collection of 82 poems set to music by Carl Michael Bellman, a major figure in Swedish 18th century song.

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Fredmans sånger

Fredmans sånger (in English, Fredman's Songs or Songs of Fredman) is a collection of 65 poems and songs published in 1791 by the Swedish poet Carl Michael Bellman.

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Giraut de Bornelh

Giraut de Bornelh (c. 1138 – 1215), whose first name is also spelled Guiraut and whose toponym is de Borneil or de Borneyll, was a troubadour connected to the castle of the viscount of Limoges.

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Guiraut Riquier

Guiraut Riquier de Narbona (1230 in Narbonne – 1292 in Narbonne or Rodez) is among the last of the Occitan troubadours.

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Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark (born 12 May 1960) is a Swedish traditional music fiddler, singer, and composer, who combines elements of folk and jazz.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Minstrel

A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe.

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Nils Lindberg

Nils Lindberg (11 June 1933 – 20 February 2022) was a Swedish composer and pianist.

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Paul Britten Austin

Paul Britten Austin (5 April 1922 – 25 July 2005) was an English author, translator, broadcaster, administrator, and scholar of Swedish literature.

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Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Scandinavian ballad tradition

The Scandinavian ballad tradition is the tradition of Scandinavian poetic singer-songwriters.

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Swedish Radio Choir

The Swedish Radio Choir is a professional choir.

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Troubadour

A troubadour (trobador archaically: -->) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Zither

Zithers (from the Greek word cithara) are a class of stringed instruments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Best

Also known as Best, Martin, Martin Best Consort, Martin Best Medieval Ensemble, Martin Best Mediæval Ensemble, Songs of Carl Michael Bellman, Songs of Carl Michael Bellman (Martin Best).