Hesperus — Before Mickey: Early Music and Early Cartoons

Tina Chancey ~ early bowed strings, viola da gamba
Niccolo Seligmann ~ viola da gamba, darabouka, spring drum
Spiff Wiegand ~ guitar, banjo, dobro, trap set

Hesperus performs its own early music soundtracks for innovative cartoons from the era just before Disney created Mickey Mouse.

0:00 Out on the Ocean (Traditional Irish)

6:38 The Automatic Moving Company (1912) Romeo Bossetti (1879−1948)
A Fancy John Dowland (1563−1626)

11:47 Symphonie Diagonale (1924) Viking Eggeling (1880−1925)
Venite a Laudare anonymous 15th-c. Lauda

22:57 Cinderella (1922) Lotte Reiniger (1899−1981)
Recercada segunda Diego Ortiz (fl. 1550)
Passe e Medio Tielman Susato (fl. 1551)
Petit Rienzi Gugleilmo Ebreo (fl. 1460)

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[davidolson]

Delightful! I've seen this film before, but it's much better with the "score" included.