L’art des Jongleurs - Ensemble Tre Fontane

Ensemble: Tre Fontane Album: L’art des Jongleurs vol. I, II, III • [ENG/ITA] Often the secular melodies have come down to us from medieval manuscripts as short melodies, almost noted down, transcribed to leave a trace of the compositions that were popular and known by the musicians of the time, to whom these ideas were enough to be able to perform them together like any modern jazz player would know how to improvise freely by the standards of the genre. Many modern performers bounded their performances to reproduce the main themes following the written notes, repeating the themes several times, but the Tre Fontane Ensemble, on the other hand, has been able to restore vitality to these sources, leaving wide-ranging instinct and improvisation, fundamental in medieval and popular music, always keeping the main themes as a starting or arriving point. Anyone who is a musician knows how fun it is to improvise on a melody and this approach was probably th