David Munrow - waits band on ’Ancestral Voices’

David Munrow and colleagues play renaissance town band or ’waits’ music in a short clip from the BBC2 TV 5-part series ’Ancestral Voices’, shown in 1976, shortly before Munrow took his own life. It features the cornett, lysarden (tenor cornett), curtal and sackbut. Munrow makes a case for the missing link between folk music and pre-classical music. This is from the ’Horns’ episode. In it, Munrow propounded the theory that early music must have had the passion and vibrancy of folk music, played today by indigenous peoples. It was recorded at a time Munrow was manically overworked and the strain sometimes shows. This video is from a researcher’s copy and is not to be copied or redistributed.