The English Stage Jig
Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant
Jordan - Kemp - Anonymus
The City Waites - Lucie Skeaping (Dir)
Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA67754
1 CD Spielzeit : 077:48
CHF 19.50
Today we think of a jig as simply a dance, but in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England the word was used to describe a short musical farce featuring songs, dancing and slapstick comedy. By 1590 Jigs were thoroughly established in the London theatres as the standard ending or Afterpiece to more serious theatrical fare.