MIGNARDA EDITIONS by RON ANDRICO - FREE DOWNLOADS

The files available for download include lute music edited from original sources, arrangements, and new compositions by Ron Andrico. We will be adding more pieces for lute solo or lute and voice occasionally, including examples of lute music edited from original sources for forthcoming publications in our series of Mignarda Editions.

Latest Samples (updated December 2011)

• Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle Attributed to Nicolas Saboly (17th c.)
  Arranged by Ron Andrico

• Praeludium 5 from Nicolas Vallet, Regia Pietas, 1620
  One of 10 praeludia in this large collection of psalm settings and variations.

• Courante - du Sieur de la Barre from Jean-Baptiste Besard, Novus Partus, 1617
  For no reason at all and from a very rich, if messy source

• Fortune my foe by John Dowland/Andrico
  (Lute duet arranged by Ron Andrico) from Shakespeare's Lute Book, available from Mignarda Editions

• Branles de village by Jean-Baptiste Besard
  (1617) Edited by Ron Andrico (Arranged as a duet for unison lutes from the original duet for fourth-apart lutes.)

• Lachrimae (am) by John Dowland
  From Cambridge University Library Ms. Dd. 2.11 f. 75v, Edited by Ron Andrico (in anticipation of the forthcoming facsimile to be published by the Lute Society (UK)

• Veni, Emmanuel
  13th century hymn, as performed on Mignarda's CD, Duo Seraphim, with thanks to Fred Lautzenheizer.

• A Ground [untitled]
  From Cambridge University Library Ms. Dd. 2.11 f. 12v-13, Edited by Ron Andrico (in anticipation of the forthcoming facsimile to be published by the Lute Society (UK)

• 'Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa'
  by Carlo Gesualdo, lute intabulation by Ron Andrico

• Romanesca & Galliard
  from British Library Stowe MS 389, lute solo
  (This English ms version of the Romanesca & Galliard is a cognate of the 'Padoana Romanisca' and 'A Gailliarda' from Pierre Phalese's Luculentum Theatrum Musicum, 1568, f. 80v-81v)

• Queen Elizabeth's Galliard by John Dowland, lute quartet

• Duo Seraphim by Victoria, lute duet (from our CD of the same name)
  

• Fors Seulement, by Albert de Rippe

• Fantasye, by Vallet

• Royal Lament, a Scots tune

Sample Pages from Currently Available & Forthcoming Editions

• Au pres de vous by Claudin de Sermisy / Marco dal L'Aquila
  from French Chansons of the Sixteenth Century: An Anthology, now available from Mignarda Editions

• Dont vient cela by Claudin de Sermisy
  from French Chansons of the Sixteenth Century: An Anthology, now available from Mignarda Editions

• Fortuna Desperata by Antoine Busnoys
  from Lutesongs of the 15th Century: an Anthology, now available from Mignarda Editions

• Mandatum novum by Cosimo Bottegari
  from The Bottegari Lute Book: Volume 1, now available from Mignarda Editions

• My Lord of Oxford's marche, from the forthcoming edition Shakespeare's Lute Book

  back to the full selection of Mignarda Editions

More Downloads:

• A Fantasia by John Dowland

• Bacheler Almaine (from Board ms.) by Daniel Bacheler

• Bacheler Pavan (from Dd.5.78) by Daniel Bacheler

• Bacheler Pavan in D (from Pickering) by Daniel Bacheler

• Bacheler Pavan in F (from Pickering) by Daniel Bacheler

• Ballo detto Conte Orlando/Saltarello de predetto ballo by Simone Molinaro

• Corranto by Doctor Dowland

• Courante by Nicolas Vallet

• Courante de Mars by Nicolas Vallet

• The cypress curtain of the night by Thomas Campion

• En me revenant by Daniel Bacheler?

• Knowles Galliard (from Marsh ms.) anonymous

• No more shall meads be decked with flowers by Nicholas Lanier

• Onder de Lindegröne by Nicolas Vallet

• Pavane d'Albert (Pavin of Albarti) by Albert de Rippe, 1555
     A newly-discovered concordance

• Praeludium 2 by Nicolas Vallet

• Sir Phillip Sidney's lamentation anonymous

• Wedding is great Juno's crown by Ron Andrico
     A newly-composed setting of a text from 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare.
     For lute or keyboard with 4-part choral refrain.

Ron Andrico is a specialist in historical music for plucked strings and has had an active career in solo and ensemble performance, vocal accompaniment, recording, as an arranger, and in music for theater. Since 1995, he has been concentrating on the lute and is known for his work in editing historical sources of lute music, producing results both scholarly and practical.