FREDERIC HAND: JAZZANTIQUA

1        Cantigas De Santa Maria    4:35

2        Rose Liz (Guillaume De Machaut) 5:20

3        Bachiaras 7:20
Devil Stick: Donald York
Cello Solo: Nancy Donaruma

4        Tourdion 2:41

5        Lady Carey's Fantasy    6:45

6        Chaconne 7:25
Synthesizer, Clavinet – Donald York

7        Toby And Lynn    9:01

From the earliest times in the history of music, improvisation has been an integral part of musical performance. In Western music, the art of improvisation reached its zenith in the Renaissance and baroque periods with the "divisions" of the Elizabethan masters and the con­tinua improvisations and ornamentation of the baroque. Musicians were expected to create melodic and rhythmic variations over given harmonic progressions. This practice declined after the baroque period and lay dormant until the advent of jazz. Although the idioms are entirely different, the concepts of jazz and early music improvisation are nearly identical. It is in this spirit that Jazzantiqua was created: to explore the relationship between the old and the new, and to create works that draw upon both musical languages. -Frederic Hand