Heart Strings: Renaissance Music from the Marsh Lute Book

Music from “Marsh Lute Book” plus Gail’s arrangements of Renaissance dance music and love songs, with discussion of the lute, its history, and its music.

​Gail Gillispie is a graduate of Oberlin College and the London Early Music Centre. She has performed in Europe, the US, and Canada, including appearances with the Newberry Consort, the Milwaukee Medieval Players, and the New York Ensemble for Early Music. As a member of the Venere Lute Quartet, she has appeared at the Utrecht Festival and recorded 4 CDs. Her first solo recording, “A Cabinet of Curiosities,” features music from the Marsh Lute Book, and will be released in the spring of 2021.She has served on the faculty at the Amherst Early Music Workshops and the Lute Society of America Summer Seminars. Gail is also a professional music engraver and a composer, editor, and arranger.

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