• Mignarda

    Mignarda

    Now in their 20th concert season, American lute song duo Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart specialize in thoughtful programming illuminating the vibrant mingling of renaissance music and poetry. Mignarda captures the intricacy of 16th century music for voice and lute with warmth and style.

    historical music...
    transcending history

  • Mignarda's latest CD

    September 2021: new release

    “Doulce Mémoire”, the title track of Mignarda's 15th album, opens the gate to a sampling of early airs de cour by Adrian Le Roy and moves forward chronologically and stylistically to music of a few decades later — to what is essentially music of the early baroque.

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    Unquiet Thoughts

  • Mignarda's chant CD

    Adoro Te: Gregorian chant hymns & antiphons

    Sacred chant heard in a sacred space has a special transporting quality and has moved hearts, minds and souls for millennia.


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  • Mignarda Editions

    Mignarda Editions

    Historical sources of lute music presented in practical performing editions. Featured publication: Mater Dolorosa. A companion to the 2020 Mignarda recording in lute tablature and keyboard transcriptions.


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MIGNARDA: Donna Stewart & Ron Andrico

Lute song and practical performing editions.

Mignarda: historical music...
transcending history

Now in their 20th concert season, American lute song duo Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart specialize in thoughtful programming illuminating the vibrant mingling of renaissance music and poetry. Mignarda captures the intricacy of 16th century music for voice and lute with warmth and style.
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our latest release:
VENI, SANCTE SPIRITUS

A second solo album of a capella Gregorian chant from Donna Stewart. Presenting a mixture of rare and familiar chants, the album features all five of the sequences that remain in liturgical use, including our second recording of a virtually unknown setting of the Stabat Mater Dolorosa text, c. 1500.
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NEW from Mignarda Editions:
LA DOUCEUR FRANÇAISE

La Douceur Française presents a generous selection of 17th-century French baroque music for solo lute transcribed for ten-course lute in viel ton. The edition includes 97 pieces by Ennemond Gaultier, François Du Fault, and Charles Mouton, carefully transcribed and edited for performance in the old tuning and arranged by key so that suites may be easily selected.
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Mignarda's internationally popular blog, "Unquiet Thoughts" publishes thoughts on lutes and luting in the 21st century, including our weekly series of Saturday quotes.

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