Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
This music comes from a manuscript from the first half of the eighteenth century containing twenty-eight pieces and found in the Läns Museum in Kalmar, Sweden. In this video, the first ten pieces are presented. I hope to offer the remaining eighteen pieces in two subsequent videos of nine pieces each.
This music comes from a manuscript from the first half of the eighteenth century containing twenty-eight pieces and found in the Läns Museum in Kalmar, Sweden. In this video, the first ten pieces are presented. I hope to offer the remaining eighteen pieces in two subsequent videos of nine pieces each.
![Renaissance Lute: Polish Dances from the Danzig Lute Book (1621) Part One
The Danzig Lute Book, published in Gdansk, Poland in 1621, contains forty-four Polish Dances (Balleti Polachi), which I intend to present in four videos of eleven pieces each. For this series, I am playing from Sarge Gerbodes wonderful edition of this manuscript. The present video offers Polish Dances one to eleven. ( Please note that the numbers of these dances refer simply to their order of appearance on Sarges website [lutemusic.org], not to their order in the original manuscript.)
Those of you who listen to my recordings regularly know that I generally illustrate them with works of art. Since I have had trouble finding paintings of Polish dances, I have chosen to illustrate these four videos with paintings of the city of Gdansk (by the way, Danzig was the name of Gdansk when it belonged to Prussia or Germany).
If you enjoy this music, you might like to consult my playlist of lute videos here: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLg2GtsZ0EeLtMBkiDQDVzG8rARl6X3WEh/videos. Renaissance Lute: Polish Dances from the Danzig Lute Book (1621) Part One](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QFJN9cCLy3M/mqdefault.jpg)









