Cornucopia / Musica Subterranea
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Musica Subterranea
2002
[61:00]
1. Banish Misfortune [2:47]
2. Dolce Amoroso Fuoco [2:02]
3. Canarias [5:06]
4. Fedelta [1:42]
5. Quen Quer Que [6:53] Vocal
CSM 167
6. Gracca Amorosa [1:59]
7. Scotch Cap [1:41]
8. Chestnu [2:09]
9. Il Conto Dell'Orco [1:35]
10. Villanella [1:46]
11. Jenny Pluck Pears [3:08]
12. Old Mole [3:15]
13. Oranges and Lemons [2:37]
14. Cuckolds All In A Row [1:27]
15. Quen Quer Que [3:46] Instrumental [sung refrains]
CSM 167
16. Maid at the Spinning Wheel [3:25]
17. On the Banks of Helicon [1:54]
18. Lo Spagnoletto [3:54]
19. Gathering Peascods [2:26]
20. Lord Sun and Lady Moon [2:42]
21. Mairi's Wedding [5:41]
Album Notes
Cornucopia is the second album we produced and was released in 2000.
Musica Subterranea is a group of artists skilled in both dance and
music who became friends in the Society for Creative Anachronism
(sca.org). We love historic reenactment, and we noticed the great deal
of time, effort, and money involved in finding good dance music in the
SCA without pirating someone else’s collection. Back in 1997, we
decided to address the problem by producing music for SCA dance that
was easy to get, inexpensive to purchase, and copyright clean. Our
first album was released in 1999, the second in 2000, the third in
2003. Due to members moving around the country, our production slowed,
but we expect to release a fourth full album in 2015. A short
compilation album including three old and three new tracks was released
on January 2, 2015 as part of a project in partnership with the SCA
region of Pentamere in the Middle Kingdom.
Our mission statement is "Get The Music To The People!" We have
arranged our music specifically to fit the reconstructed steps for
dances studied and practiced in the SCA. We aim to price the CDs as low
as possible to sustain the project. At the same time, we try to answer
a variety of needs - SCA favorites for new up-and-coming dancers,
hard-to-find music for the dedicated dance enthusiast - and everything
in between. To that end, we take requests from SCA dancers from all
over the known world for tunes and specific arrangements they'd like to
have available for the dances they would like to do more often.
Given that we are all volunteers in a not-for-profit organization, we
research, arrange, record, engineer, and produce our CDs in our
“free” time. To that end, please note our copyright policy
– we fully maintain copyright to every arrangement, recorded
tune, and CD we produce. It is our intent to provide music to dancers,
not to make a lot of money nor to provide a means for others to make
money. Piracy is possible in our world, so we ask any would-be-pirates
to consider our years of hard work at no personal profit before you
copy our music. We *do* encourage spreading and sharing the joy of
dance with others, and we try to keep our prices low so that those who
need a copy can afford one themselves. We hope the effort is
appreciated.
Please contact us if you wish to use our sheet music or our recordings
for a use that may not fit within our stated copyright policy. We wish
to serve the SCA dance and music communities to the best of our
abilities, and we also wish to avoid providing loopholes in our written
policies that allow for unscrupulous use of our work. So, please
contact us to create a written agreement for legal use of our products
if your intended use might violate our stated policies. All the info
you need is on our web page: musicasub.org.
Thank you for your interest in our music! Please reach out to us if you
have questions, requests for new music, or feedback. We will love to
hear from you! Yea Dancing!