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Mr. Savall assembled a Renaissance big band of 24 players, wielding cornetto, shawms, dulcians and sackbuts as well as ancient and newer strings, and a cast of six singers and two actors.

Instrumental contributions were most pleasing when they featured matching instruments, shawms and dulcians together or all recorders, where each overlapping contrapuntal line could be traced in the same timbre.

Then there's an elegant treatment of The Boar's Head, featuring the shawm, a medieval reed instrument, and sturdy a cappella vocal harmonies on the American spiritual Poor Little Jesus.

Shawm, Shalm, shawm, n. a musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed enclosed in a globular mouthpiece.

Go, damsels, dance in the meadows to the sound of pipes and shawms.