So I've had this great instrument sitting around for a while called a 'Ballad Horn', from the 1880's. It's sort of like a horn or old-style mellophone, but pitched in C and with a smaller bell- the former makes it superb for reading vocal music as opposed to an instrument in Bb, Eb, or F (the other common keys for brass/winds), while the latter gives it a particularly delicate tone something closer to a trombone or alto horn.
I decided while visiting my family to make a short album of some pieces using the instrument, so my aunt improvised some piano parts to the pieces as we went through them.
https://samulis.bandcamp.com/album/the-ballad-horn
Several of the pieces are from Playford's Dancing Master, published in various editions from 1651 until around 1728, with a few others from other collections as well (including one of my all-time favorite pieces, Thomas Ravenscroft's "The Three Ravens"). We set aside the existing notions of the music and went for a more modern style, maybe a bit more contemporary to the ballad horn itself.
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