A selection of beginner to advanced bransles from the Renaissance (16th century) adapted for the Ukulele or Renaissance Guitar, using musical notation and tablature.

Ancient music written for the modern ukulele ….. None!

Playing ancient music on the ukulele ….. Absolutely!

This collection of beginner to advanced bransles from the Renaissance (16th century) are adapted and arranged for the Ukulele or Renaissance Guitar, using both modern musical notation and tablature. The pieces in this book are ordered by composer and in roughly the same order as the original books. When playing a soprano, concert or tenor ukulele, linear tuning is required (i.e. using a low G string). Notes about the composers are at the back of this book.

Contents:

Bransle de Poitou “O Madame” (Adrian Le Roy)
Bransle de Poitou (III and IV) (Adrian Le Roy)
Bransle de Champagne (I, II and IV) (Adrian Le Roy)
Branle Gay (Adrian Le Roy)
            “O combien est heureuse”
            “Je ne suis moins aimable”
            “Quand j'entens le perdu temps”
            “Plus ne veux estre à la suite”
            “C'est de la peine dure”
            “Helas mon dieu”
            “Maintenant c'est un cas estrange”
Bransle Simple (Adrian Le Roy)
Bransle Gay (Adrian Le Roy)
Bransle Haulbaroys (Adrian Le Roy)
Bransle Gay (Adrian Le Roy)
            “La centure que je porte”
            “Je ne seray jamais bergere”
Bransle (II, VII to IX and XI) (Guillaume Morlaye)

Recordings of the pieces played at various tempos are posted on SoundCloud (search for A Trove of Bransles on the Ukulele or Ancient Music for Ukulele).

Please check out the other books in this series “Ancient Music for Ukulele” by visiting our website (ancientmusic4ukulele.com) and/or Facebook page.