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![]() The following samples are in MP3 format. Click to open a new window to play the track. Primeros Tonos Oy hasemos fiesta todas Maria de solo un buelo Pabanilla Dominus regnavit ![]() From Focus Records/IUMusic: ![]() Oy Hasemos Fiesta Music from 16th century Guatamala for voices and winds On CD Baby Complete liner notes |
Ensemble Lipzodes is a unique group that combines voice, shawms, dulcians, recorders, and percussion to bring to life the rarely performed music of 16th century Guatemala. In addition to this singular repertoire,
the
ensemble also explores new directions in early music utilizing voices and winds.
![]() http://youtu.be/XINNTIsqWxk ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2004, Lipzodes was a finalist in Early Music America's Renaissance and Medieval Performance Competition, and in 2006 the ensemble was selected as a winner in the Ninth Competition in Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America. The ensemble has performed throughout the United States and in Latin America, featured at festivals and series such as the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Chicago Latino Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Fringe Festival, and the National Gallery of Art Concert Series. In 2007 they were featured on a CD recording by the University of North Texas, Christmas Vespers in Cusco: Music from an Incan Baroque City, with the University of North Texas Collegium Singers and Instrumentalists. Oy hasemos fiesta is their first CD release as an ensemble with Focus Records. The ensemble's unique name comes from a creative misinterpretation of the writing on the flyleaf of MS 1, Santa Eulalia, from the Guatemalan Music Manuscripts (printed on the CD label of our recording). What at first glance seems to say "Lipzodes" actually is the first part of a passage which continues further: "LibRodeSancta olaya Puyumatlan. Este libro de canto hize yo francº de Leon maestro deste pueblo de sancta olaya. hizelo En el año De mill y quinientos y ochenta y dos annos. Francº De Leon.." In an orthographic transformation typical of the region, the letters "b" and "p" became exchanged, and the "R" lost its vertical bar, to become what appeared to be a Z. | ||||||
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