{ object_type: 'Audio',embed_type: 'image',embed_detail: 'http://www.myloc.gov/_assets/Exhibitions/astheoldsing/record/Assets/Audio_myloc_125.Jpeg',embed_alt: '“Sonata quarta per canto e b. c.” (1664), by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer',thumbnail: {url: 'http://www.myloc.gov/_assets/Exhibitions/astheoldsing/record/Assets/Audio_myloc_125.Jpeg',alt: '“Sonata quarta per canto e b. c.” (1664), by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer',height: '66',width: '125'} }

“Sonata quarta per canto e b. c.” (1664), by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer

Player requires Adobe Flash 10

“Sonata quarta per canto e b. c.” (1664), by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (7:13 minutes)

Performers: Ensemble Caprice

Listen to the Ensemble Caprice as they perform the elegant “Sonata quarta per canto e b. c.” (1664). The ensemble includes two recorders and baroque flute players as well as musicians on harpsicord, an early keyboard instrument, and viola da gamba, a type of bowed and fretted stringed instrument popular during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Selection from Arlecchino—Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonate e Baletti. Austria: Bella Musica Edition, 1999. Courtesy of Amanda Pond