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Jean-Baptiste Loeillet’s Flute Sonata in G Major displays a charming blend of Italianate style combined with French ornamentation while achieving a contrapuntal texture that features all voices more equally than music of his time often did. Ballad tunes such as John Dowland’s Fortune My Foe were the folk songs of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The melody was recognizable by anyone, and the storyline told in the lyrics gradually change over years and decades, often reflecting the current social or political happenings. This version of Fortune My Foe varies the melody with florid passages in the guitar underneath the melody in the Renaissance recorder.Gabriel Faure wrote his Opus 50 Pavane in 1887, yet a pavane was originally a slow, processional court dance from the Renaissance that originated in Spain or Italy. The name may be a derivation of the Spanish word pavón, meaning peacock. Nathan Kolosko’s Hungarian Trio gives a musical depiction of traditional Hungarian folk melodies and dances, using Black Cedar’s modern instruments to mimic ancient Hungarian instruments.