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The Topping Tooters of the Town
Music of the London Waits 1550-1650
This concert is a celebration of the music of the ‘waits’ – urban musicians who were famed in London for their artistry and skill on a par with those at the court. Waits were wind players first and foremost and this concert is a celebration of the broad repertoire waits would have played. The ‘Topping Tooters’ play on cornetts, sackbuts, dulcian, recorders and bagpipes. The concert contains music for ceremony, civic procession, sophisticated masque and theatre pieces as well as popular dance and song for performance in tavern and communal hall.
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‘These are the topping tooters of the town, and have gowns, silver chains, and salaries, for playing “Lilliburlero” to my Lord Mayor's horse through the city.'
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THE CITY MUSICK
Director
William Lyons
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Richard Thomas
cornett, recorder, bagpipes
Nicholas Perry
cornett, shawm, curtal, bagpipes, recorder
George Bartle
sackbut, voice
Tom Lees
sackbut, recorder
Paul Bevan
sackbut, recorder
William Lyons
shawm, curtal, recorder, bagpipes
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