Let flutes of fancy provide delightful music for your Northern California Renaissance wedding or event:

Renaissance or Medieval Wedding
Renaissance or Celtic Faire
Castle Event
Tolkien Theme Party
Romance Writers' Convention

Hear Ye:

Hanford Renaissance Faire - photos by Phil Lawrence

what's old is new...

Playford Promenade:  Music for Grand Occasions is available as sheet music in time for the 2008 wedding season. These 17th century Playford tunes have been especially selected because they make wonderful processionals and recessionals. A perfect choice for theme weddings, garden weddings, and for the bride and groom wanting something a little different!

Playford Promenade contains 42 tunes for recorder and violin.  Below are excerpts from  over half of this anthology. Let us know if  you would like us to perform one or more these for your ceremony.  

More Renaissance Music

Prince Rupert's March (two recorders)

Prince Rupert's March  (violin and recorder)

Lord Willoughby's March

Susato's Ronde

It was a Lover and His Lasse

Since First I Saw Your Face

Scarborough Faire

Prince Rupert’s march to guide thee down the aisle
Might well appeal to thee,
Or perhaps, in minor strains,
The walk of Lord Willoughby.

And as thou lightest nuptial candles,
Pausing in reverie,
Siren songs echo thy joy,
The madrigals of Morley.

Up the aisle triumphantly,
What finer way to go,
Thy union joyfully proclaimed,
A ronde by Susato!

Before and aft such precious vows,
Graceful notes shall dance,
Praetorius, Dowland, East, and Byrd,
Sweet music of the Renaissance.

Lest thou thought this treasure lost,
The music ’s close at hand,
It‘s reappeared to share thy glee,
Spread birdsong through the land.

Your Minstrels, Lady Dorothea and Lord Bertram Barth
flutes of fancy

Having a Celtic wedding?  Check out our Celtic sound samples!

NEW!

Maidens of Melody, Dorothy Barth's beautiful anthology of Irish sheet music duo arrangements from O'Neill's Music of Ireland is now available.