Shirley Rumsey is an English musician who recorded two solo CDs of

Renaissance music Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century '' ars nova'', the Tr ...

for

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in the mid 1990s. She studied lute and voice at the

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in London. There she became interested in solo vocal music accompanied by the

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

, and she developed a career performing that repertoire. Rumsey also plays the vihuela and the Renaissance guitar. In addition to solo recitals and recordings, she collaborates with lutenist Christopher Wilson, with whom she co-directs the ensemble Kithara.Shirley Rumsey
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Discography

*''Music of the Spanish Renaissance,'' 1993, Naxos Records. Shirley Rumsey: Lute, Renaissance Guitar, Vihuela, Vocals *''Music of the Italian Renaissance,'' 1994, Naxos Records. Shirley Rumsey: Lute, Renaissance Guitar, Vihuela, Vocals

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