LISTEN to Tina both with the Folger Consort through the link below and Monday in Tacoma in Giovanni Bassano's virtuoso embellishments, further elaborated upon in the style of the late 16th century by Ms. Chancey, of the chanson "Frais et Gaillard" by Clemens non Papa, to be performed Monday at 7:00 PM at Mason Church in Tacoma in the context of an instrumental edition from 1577 for instruments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kvXDcWB6dk This innovative and trailblazing program, the likes of which one rarely experiences in the realm of early music, includes many works that have hardly if ever been heard anywhere for centuries, and certainly never in modern times with this instrumentation. On the shelves of selected libraries, some of our program is nowhere to be found in any form on the world wide web (isn't that refreshing?), at least in modern editions. They exhibit a remarkable progression of ideas compressed into half a century, with strikingly contrasting works that sound as fresh and exhilarating as they did more than four centuries ago. Having familiarized ourselves with this musical territory 2 years ago, our fresh new canzona program with special guest and renaissance specialist Tina Chancey brings back to light the explorative proclivities of these fabulous but relatively unknown composers, such as Cangliasi, Biumi, Usper. Pellegrini, Rivolta and Troilo. We'll also represent a few whose names you'll be more likely to recognize like Giovanni Gabrielli and Clement Jannequin, whose "Song of the Birds", still popular long after his death, was published for instruments without text in 1577. This "Canzon Delli Ucelli" was the first Renaissance music our guest Tina Chancey ever heard as a child. As popular as the vocal version still is today, this relatively unknown instrumental version is rarely to be heard in modern times. This adoption of vocal repertoire by instrumentalists has been common practice through history. In a 1533 print of French and Flemish songs by Pierre Attaignant, the earliest European publisher of music, certain chansons were marked to be performed on flutes, and others on recorders, and we'll include three of these in this program. The instrumentalist's continued admiration through the 16th century for these beloved Franco-Flemish chansons was reflected many decades after their composition in editions without text in 1577 and 1588 for unspecified instruments, and around this time this practice inspired composers to introduce and experiment with this new vocally inspired form specifically for instruments, the canzona, alongside the ricercare and other purely instrumental forms with which they were familiar. At first very much reflective of the chanson idiom (for example in Merulo's "Canzon Torna Crecquillon") but without text, the canzona developed increasingly idiomatic and even virtuosic elements, evolving into and existing beyond the baroque sonata. Our favorite bassoonist Anna Marsh invited us to "experience how the canzona is not a calzone" in an off-guard and somewhat under-nourished moment, after multiple hours of canzona immersion. We're at a loss for words as this material is so bizarre and wonderful and difficult to categorize! Anna seriously believes we should offer calzones at intermission, along with bottles of Pellegrino, in light of one our beautiful finds that we'll share on Monday: Vincenzo Pellegrini's "Canzone la Lomazzo", published in 1617. We have many other exciting discoveries to share with you at Mason Church on Monday at 7 and we hope you'll join us.                               ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷   Monday, January 20 at 7:00 PM: — *RENAISSANCE to BAROQUE: The ITALIAN CANZONA* — *Mason United Methodist Church*    2710 North Madison Street in Tacoma www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma <http://www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma>   — Suggested donation $20 to $30 (a free will offering; pay as you wish) — 18 and under free Canzonas in Tacoma                               ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ Your donations enable this project entirely and are gratefully accepted at https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate.html. Thank you!