This is one of the best-known Italian renaissance dance tunes. This 1645 setting for four parts is by Gasparo Zanetti, but the tune is much older.
Arranged by Steve Hendricks:
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Shawm/mantovan.pdf
Played on mandolin, two tenor guitars and mandocello.
Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
Ozark tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello
While Zanetti called this tune "Ballo di Mantova", this is quite different from Gaetano Greco tune recorded by Hany last week, which is also why I am not posting in his thread -- although they are supposed to be versions of the same tune, I am not sure I hear this.
This is also the source for the tune of the Israeli anthem ("Hatikvah"), and was included in Playford's Dancing Master under the title "An Italian Rant".
Martin
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