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A piece by the portuguese composer António Chagas Rosa (1960) composed in 1999 for tenor recorder and orchestra.
A. Chagas Rosa (1960): 3 Consolations for recorder and orchestra (1999)
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The Renaissance saw an explosion of methodic madness in the dances. The more licentious would later be banished by the authorities, that then where both religious & secular.
It suffices to feast your eyes in painting like Brughel's "the elder": The Peasant Dance (1568) to understood what was — and is still today — the real "motivation" behind dancing.
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