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This month's music is a Branle by Adrian Le Roy. He was a French publisher/printer, composer, lutenist and writer.

A Branle is a (mainly) French country dance often in duple time and containing repetitive sections. In English it's pronounced "Brawl". Branle means to "sway" and that's exactly what they did when dancing a Branle, that is, sway from side to side. It was very popular during the 16th and 17th centuries. There are several variations or forms of the Branle namely: Bourgogne; Champagne; Simple; Double; Gai.

Purcell was an English Baroque composer often called England's finest native composer. He incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music...

Videos for Monthly Music August 07
Country Dance No.1 by Anton Diabelli

Diabelli received his first musical training as a singer in monasteries and cathedrals. This stood him in good stead for his time with Michael Hayden, brother of the famous Joseph.

But it was the guitar that was his main focus of interest. This enabled him to link up with the more famous, and technically proficient, Mauro Giuliani from whom he learned a great deal.

He was able to earn a good living in Vienna around this time playing and teaching both guitar and piano.

Monthly Music July 07
Adagio by J.K. Mertz

Johann Kaspar Mertz was an Austrian-based guitarist and composer, born in Pressburg, now Bratislava, Slovakia. He was active in Vienna, which had been home to various important figures in the guitar world, including Anton Diabelli, Mauro Giuliani, Wenceslaus Matiegka and Simon Franz Molitor...

Monthly Music June 07
Menuet in C Major by Sor

Sor was one of the most influential classical guitarists of all time writing beautiful studies and didactic works of great importance. A seminal mind who produced one of the best guitar methods of all time...

Monthly Music May 07
Minuet by Johann Krieger

Krieger was a German composer and organist, brother to Johann Philipp Krieger. He succeeded his brother as chamber organist at Bayreuth in 1672...

Monthly Music April 07
Two Waltzes by Carulli

Carulli became one of the most popular and loved classical guitar composers and players of his time...

Monthly Music March 07
Fur Elise

Monthly Music February 07
Andantino by Carulli

Born in Italy in the same year as Beethoven (1770), he became one of the most popular and loved classical guitar composers and players of his time. Indeed, that love extends right up to the present day as new generations of guitarists "find" his music and make it their own.

Monthly Music January 07
Moderato in A Minor by Carulli

When Carulli died in 1841 he had achieved quite a degree of celebrity, especially in Paris. But more than this, he left us rich vein of music that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but instructive and pleasurable as well.

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