Arcadelt's Bass Type:Hard Copy * The melody at the

* The melody at the heart of these three pieces seems to have been one of the earliest popular songs to figure in art music

Recorders at large

4 in d minor*

If Ye Love Me

Arcadelt's Bass Type:Hard Copy * The melody at theContemporary Australia composition for Recorder Quartet by Diana Blom for Treble, 2 x Tenors and Bass recorder. I was visiting The International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna in 2004, not long after it had opened, and amongst a particularly fine collection of musical instruments and portraits of composers, noticed a manuscript fragment. Dated 1539, Venice, the fragment was part of a bass line from a madrigal by Franco Flemish Renaissance