Five Medieval Dances

Samuel Milligan's Five Medieval Dances is the third in the the Wings Press "Ars Musicae Hispaniae" series, joining Milligan's Seven Medieval Songs and Nine Sephardic Songs, all arranged for small harp and optional instruments. Very little medieval secular music was written down, especially secular dance music. Five Medieval Dances preserves what were likely some of the most popular pieces of the 13th and 14th centuries, drawn from Le Manuscrit du Roi in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, as well as from manuscripts housed in the British Museum and the National Library of the Czech Republic. Samuel Milligan is one of the most widely recognized arrangers of harp music alive today. He was the founding editor of the American Harp Journal, and has served on the Boards of the American Harp Society and the Historical Harp Society.