Journey to Jerusalem (album)

Journey to Jerusalem - 900 Years of Crusade (1095–1995) is album by Ensemble Renaissance, released in 1995 on the Al Segno label in Germany.

Heroic feats in the Holy Land, laments over one's master's death, longing for the beloved in the homeland – became favourite subjects of medieval lyrical, poetry.

The age of the Crusaders was at the same time period of birth and full flourishing of European poetry and music, embodied in the works of French troubadours and trouvères, German Minnesangers, and English minstrels.

Already at the times of the crusaders, highly popular songs sung without words, or performed exclusively instrumentally, were named estampies.

Together with ductias and Four Dances by Chose Tassin from the Codex Montpellier, the estampies belong among the oldest known instrumental forms in Europe.