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A suite from the early baroque dance collection Terpsichore (1612) by Michael Praetorius. Live, 4K UHD video from the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music concert, December, 2016. Please subscribe to our channel For this concert, we selected six dances from the collection and grouped them together to form a suite: Ballet, 0:00 Courante 1:47 Spagnoletta 3:11 Volte 5:12 Pavane 6:10 Bourée 7:40 Buy Voices of Music CDs Michael Praetorius was one of the most important composers and theorists of the late renaissance and early-17th century. His astonishing encyclopedia of music gives us an intriguing glimpse into the instruments and performance practices of the time, and his writing covers all aspects of music. Praetorius wrote popular hymn settings, as well as large-scale compositions that borrowed elements of the polychoral Italian tradition. Praetorius wa
