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The Harp Consort, the Glossary

The Harp Consort is an international early music ensemble directed by Andrew Lawrence-King, specialising in Baroque opera, early dance-music, and historical World Music.^[1]

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Early music consorts
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Andrew Lawrence-King

Andrew Lawrence-King (born 3 September 1959) is a harpist and conductor from Guernsey known for his work in early music.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Basso continuo

Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.

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Caitríona O'Leary

Caitríona O'Leary (born 1969) is an Irish singer, composer, and arranger.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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A consort of instruments was a phrase used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate an instrumental ensemble. The Harp Consort and consort of instruments are early music consorts and instrumental early music groups.

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Diapason d'Or

The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.

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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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Ensalada (music)

The ensalada (Spanish for salad) is a genre of polyphonic secular music mixing languages and dialects and nonsensical quodlibets.

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Freiburger Barockorchester

Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is a German Baroque orchestra founded in 1987, with the mission statement: "to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds".

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Gautier de Coincy

Gautier de Coincy (1177–1236) was a French abbot, trouvère and musical arranger, chiefly known for his devotion to the Virgin Mary.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Giles Farnaby

Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist whose music spans the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period.

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Guernsey

Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music.

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Hille Perl

Hille Perl (born Hildegard Perl born 1965 in Bremen) is a German virtuoso performer of the viola da gamba and lirone.

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Historical dance

Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present.

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Joglaresa

Joglaresa is a London-based medieval and folk band, known for their scholarly and imaginative re-creation of medieval music.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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John Playford

John Playford (1623–1686) was a London bookseller, publisher, minor composer and member of the Stationers' Company.

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Keith McGowan

Keith McGowan OAM (9 March 1943 – 22 December 2013) was an Australian radio presenter.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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La púrpura de la rosa

La púrpura de la rosa (The Blood of the Rose) is an opera in one act, composed by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, a great writer of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Lee Santana

Lee Santana (born 1959) is an American lutenist and composer, resident in Bremen, Germany.

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Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz

Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz y Fonseca (1626-after 1677) was a Spanish harpist and composer for lute and guitar.

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Luis Venegas de Henestrosa

Luis Venegas de Henestrosa (c. 15101570) was a Spanish composer of the 16th century active during the Spanish Golden Age.

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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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Medieval music

Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries.

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Missa Mexicana

Missa Mexicana is a studio album by international Early Music ensemble The Harp Consort.

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Nigel Rogers

Nigel David Rogers (21 March 1935 – 19 January 2022) was an English multilingual tenor, music conductor, and vocal coach, who sang in over seventy classical music album recordings in German, French, Italian, Latin and English, mostly of early music, baroque and sacred music, including works by Claudio Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, and Bach.

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References

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

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Early music consorts

Instrumental early music groups

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