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Organist Tina Chancey and stringed instrument musicians on the vielle, rebec and viola da gamba will perform a prelude of medieval, Renaissance and baroque works by Jehan de l’Escurel, Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Diego Ortiz, Christopher Simpson, Johannes Schenk, Du Buisson and Karl Friedrich Abel.

Instrumental accompaniment was provided by Mr. Metcalfe on vielle, a medieval type of violin, and harp, and Laura Jeppesen, who switched between vielle and rebec, another precursor of the modern violin.

He switched between the rebab, an Arabic bowed instrument with a timbre that can sound either raspy or lyrical, depending on how you play it, and its smaller, lighter-voiced European descendant, the rebec.

Rebec, Rebeck, rē′bek, n. a musical instrument of the violin kind, with three strings played with a bow, introduced by the Moors into Spain.

Hark! hark! the rebec calls,—Glycere Again may foot it on the green; Her rivalry I need not fear, These flowers shall crown the Village Queen.