the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe
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Europe: 17th century France

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16311631 freize, Saint Omer
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
 16401640 beggar, engraving
'Cries of Paris'

16991699 fresco, Albi, Midi-Pyrénées

  
17th century rural dancing17th century rural workers dancing
 

Sabbath dancing:
“When a country curate represented to Fenelon,(high up in French church) that the peasants of his cure profaned
the Sabbath with dancing, and the pipe and tabor, it is said the author of Telemachus replied, ‘‘ Let us suffer them
the relaxation of an innocent amusement, on the day of rest ; we have been idle all the week —but they have been labouring.”

The Universal Magazine 1805-08: Vol 4 Iss 21
 
the theatre
mid 17th century arrangements in the theatre ’A flute and tambour, or two fiddlers, supplied the music’
c 1610c 1610 print of a wedding in a farce
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at the opera of the Carnival of Venice
 
in a band
1610-16151610-1615 painting, Eure-et-Loir  16241624 part of an angel band  
c 1630c 1630 playing for dancing :
c 1630the band 16301630
17th century17th century wedding feast 17th century17th century engraving
17th centuryunknown
16501650 painting, group playing in minstrel's gallery at a wedding 17th century 1667 wedding procession
     
1636 Marin Mersenne treatise: 1636
 

Rouen, Normandy:
“… the Confrerie de St. Cecile was hard-worked distributing its musicians broadcast to the many private gatherings
that called for pipe and tabour….Nor was this the only festivity indulged in by the City Fathers. The " Feu St. Jean "
was solemnly lit by the senior sheriff, to the sound of pipe and tabour…. 

‘The story of Rouen’ by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir
poem by Pierre Goudelin, 1579-1649, Toulouse, Occitanie17th century‘The Academy’. 18. translated 1880
17th century carol (video)17th century Carol
 

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