Music history comes alive with TU's Early Music Ensembles
(MUSA 268, 468, 568)

Founded and directed by Professor H. Gene Griswold, this critically acclaimed ensemble specializes in performances of music literature from the medieval, renaissance, and baroque eras. Part of TU's early music program is ALTA, an in-resident faculty trio specializing in multi-media productions of medieval art, poetry, and music.

EME's Instrumentarium contains over 30 replicas of historical instruments including medieval vielles and rebec, pipe and tabor, gothic harp, lute, psaltery, renaissance flute, cornettos, sackbuts, cornemuse, dulcian, harpsichord, guitar, various percussion instruments and full consorts of shawms, viols, crumhorns, and recorders.

Based on enrollment and individual abilities, students enrolled in EME are divided each semester into several smaller instrumental and vocal ensembles which may include:

• Medieval Dramas
• 18-C Ensemble (Cornetti, Bassoons, and Voices)
• Recorder, Guitar, and Vocal Ensemble
• Recorder Consort
• Guitar Ensemble
• Crumhorn Consort
• Renaissance Madrigal Ensemble
• Viol Consort
• Baroque Cantata
• Baroque Dance Ensemble
• Renaissance Dance Ensemble
• Early American Dance Ensemble
• Medieval Dance Ensemble
• Baroque Trumpet Ensemble
• Cornetto and Sackbut Ensemble
• Medieval Ensemble

Recent programs include: Music and Dance in Colonial Maryland, The Art of Division, The Play of Daniel, Music from Shakespeare's Plays, Medieval and Renaissance Music by Women Composers, A Renaissance Christmas, A Medieval Christmas, Music of the Gothic Era, Music for Recorders and Guitars and An Evening of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Dance with Goucher College's historical dance ensemble, CHORÉGRAPHIE ANTIQUE, directed by Chrystelle Bond.

In addition to on-campus performances TU's early music ensembles have appeared as part of concert series and music festivals sponsored by the Kennedy Center, Washington National Cathedral, The Cathedral Mary Our Queen, The American Guild of Organists, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Second Presbyterian Church, and Goucher College.