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WILLIAM BYRD 1539 / 40 or 1543 - 1623
CORANTO CCXLI

This piece is from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a collection of keyboard music by a number of different composers of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. A coranto is a court dance in triple time also known as a courante. This version is an arrangement for guitar quartet.

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Vandergucht (Michael van der Gucht ??), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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William Byrd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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