I’m teaching about ballads on Saturday. The handout is here.
Instrumental Consort Class
At the Performing Arts Symposium (https://www.facebook.com/events/460186229241494) I’m teaching an instrumental class using these songs:
I will also use these exercises: TuningExercises (case.edu)
Vocal Consort class
At the Performing Arts Symposium (https://www.facebook.com/events/460186229241494) I’m teaching a vocal class using these songs:
Sicut cervus by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Sicut_Cervus_three_page.pdf
Una Sanosa Porfia by Juan del Encina
http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Una-sañosa-porfía-10-verses.pdf
Dallas Public Library July 9th 4:30pm
The Dallas Public Library is planning a Shakespeare event on July 9th. Vicki and I will present a program on “Popular Music in the age of Shakespeare” at 4:30pm.
The great consort music from the court of Elizabeth Tudor is well known, but what did common people sing or hear? Tallis and Byrd wrote music for choirs, Dowland for the lute, and Holbourne for viols, but they all wrote for professional musicians. Common folk sang broadside ballads or danced to simple bransles (pronounced brawls).
This presentation will discuss ballads that are mentioned in Shakespeare plays, and dances that were popular outside to the court. The primary source for dances is Arbeau’s Orchesography. It describes dance steps and gives the melody. Few dances from this time had any harmony included. The best source for songs in the plays is Duffin’s Shakespeare’s Songbook.
We will perform the dances and ballads, and describe the instruments that would have been used then.
Bibliography
Anderson, Mark. “Shakespeare” by Another Name The Life of Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare. Gotham Books, 2006.
Arbeau, Thoinot, et al. Orchesography: 16th-Century Frence Dance from Court to Countryside. Dover Publications, 2011.
Cofrin, Albert. Early Period and Popular Dance Music. 1997.
Duffin, Ross W., and Stephen Orgel. Shakespeare’s Songbook. W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
“English Broadside Ballad Archive.” UCSB Library, 4 Oct. 2021, https://www.library.ucsb.edu/research/db/123.
Hendricks, Steve. The Great Booke of English Ballads and Songs. Samuel Piper Press, 2015.
Picard, Liza. Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005.
Simpson, Claude M. The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music. Rutgers University Press, 1966.
Wulstan, David. Tudor Music. University of Iowa Press, 1986.
Gruffydd Consort 2022
Sicut cervus by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Sicut_Cervus_three_page.pdf
Amours Partez by Claudin de Sermisy
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/a/aa/Sermisy-Amours_partez.pdf
April is in my Mistress Face by Thomas Morley
https://stcpress.org/miscellaneous/april/april.pdf
Belle qui tiens ma vie by Thoinot Arbeau
http://stcpress.org/miscellaneous/belle_qui/belle_qui_tiens_ma_vie.pdf
Who made thee, Hob, forsake thy plow? by William Byrd http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Who-made-thee-Hob.pdf
Elfsea Defender 2020 Playlist
| Song | Type | Composer | Arranger | URL | Rehearsal Status | # Parts | Has Words? | Language | Source | Century |
| Ut Queant Laxis | Plainchant | Anonymous | Andrew Henderson | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ut_queant_laxis.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Guido d’ Arezzo | 11 |
| CSM 10: Rosa das Rosas | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rosa-das-Rosas.pdf | Current | 1 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 |
| CSM 166: Como Poden | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Al Cofrin | Current | 2 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 | |
| CSM 167: Quen quér que na Virgen fía | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Al Cofrin | http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/167#music/s | Current | 2 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 |
| CSM 353: Quen a omagen da Virgen | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Al Cofrin | Current | 1 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 | |
| Alle Psallite Cum Luya | Motet | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Alle-Psallite-Cum-Luya.pdf | Past | 3 | Yes | Latin | French | 13 |
| Quem pastores laudavere | Motet | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Quem-pastores-laudavere.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Hoenfurth Manuscript | 14 |
| Cuncti Simus | Song | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cuncti-Simus.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 |
| Laudemus Virginem and Splendens ceptigera | Plainchant | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cannons.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 |
| Mariam Matrem | Song | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Mariam-Matrem.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 |
| Stella Splendens | Song | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Llibre/stella.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 |
| Douce dame jolie | Vinelai | Guillaume de Machaut | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Medieval/douce.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | French | 14 |
Oakwood Playlist
| Song | Type | Composer | Arranger | URL | Rehearsal Status | # Parts | Lyrics? | Language | Source | Century | Publication Date | Notes | Last Performance |
| A la venue de Noel | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/A-la-venue-de-Noel.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | French | |||||
| Adam Lay Ybounden | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Adam-Lay-Ybounden.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | English | Sloan Manuscript | 15 | |||
| Alle Psallite Cum Luya | Motet | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Alle-Psallite-Cum-Luya.pdf | Past | 3 | Yes | Latin | French | 13 | |||
| Alleluia: Now well may we mirthes make | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Now-well-may-we-mirthes-make.pdf | Current | 2 | Yes | English | Bodleian Library Oxford MS Arch. Seldon B. 26 | 15 | 12/21/2019 | ||
| Allemaingne I | Instrumental | Tylman Susato | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Renaiss/allem_i.pdf | Past | No | Danserye | 16 | 1551 | see also http://ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/9/99/IMSLP460288-PMLP201907-danserye.pdf | |||
| April is in my Mistress Face | Madrigal | Thomas Morley | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Morley/april.pdf | Current | Yes | English | Madrigalls to foure voyces | 16 | 1594 | |||
| Arthur’s Men | Song | Kevin Marsh | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Arthurs-men-Baritone-and-Harp.pdf | Idea | 2 | Yes | English | 20 | baritone, guitar, harp | |||
| As I lay on Yule’s night | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/As-I-lay-on-Yules-night.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | English | Cambridge University MS Add. 5943 | 15 | voice and harp. Original has many verses. | ||
| Ave Rex Angelorum | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ave-Rex-Angelorum.pdf | Current | 3 | No | Latin | British Museum MS Egerton 3307 | 15 | Setting for alto and 2 tenor recorders. Original in Latin. | 12/21/2019 | |
| Belle qui tiens ma vie | Pavan | Thoinot Arbeau | http://stcpress.org/miscellaneous/belle_qui/belle_qui_tiens_ma_vie.pdf | Current | Yes | French | Orchesographie | 16 | 1588 | ||||
| Bergerette: Sans Roch | Instrumental | Tylman Susato | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Renaiss/bergeret.pdf | Past | No | Danserye | 16 | 1551 | ||||
| Branle de Chevaulx | Dance | Thoinot Arbeau | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Shawm/horse.pdf | Past | No | Orchesographie | 61 | 1588 | ||||
| Bransle Suite | Dance | Thoinot Arbeau | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Arbeau/double.pdf | Past | No | Orchesographie | 16 | 1588 | ||||
| Chestnut or Dove’s vagary | Dance | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Playford_new/chestnut.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | The English Dancing Master | 17 | 1651 | reset in D | |
| Come Away, Come Sweet Love | Song | John Dowland | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Come-Away-Come-Sweet-Love.pdf | Idea | 1 | Yes | English | 16 | original 4 parts | |||
| CSM 10: Rosa das Rosas | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Rosa-das-Rosas.pdf | Current | 1 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 | 1250 | ||
| CSM 166: Como Poden | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Al Cofrin | Current | 2 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 | 1275 | |||
| CSM 167: Quen quér que na Virgen fía | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Al Cofrin | Current | 2 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 | 1250 | |||
| CSM 353: Quen a omagen da Virgen | Cantiga | Alphonso X El Sabio | Al Cofrin | Current | 1 | Yes | Mediaval Portugese | Cantigas de Santa Maria | 13 | 1250 | |||
| Cuncti Simus | Song | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cuncti-Simus.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 | 12/8/2015 | ||
| Daphne | Song | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/daphne.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | The English Dancing Master | 17 | 1651 | ||
| Deo Gracias Anglia, the Agincourt Carol | Carol | Anonymous | http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/images/4/40/Deo_gracias.pdf | Current | 3 | Yes | English | Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58 | 13 | 1420 | 12/21/2019 | ||
| Dit le Bourguygnon | Dance | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Renaiss/dit.pdf | Past | No | 16 | ||||||
| Douce dame jolie | Vinelai | Guillaume de Machaut | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Medieval/douce.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | French | 14 | ||||
| Fine knacks for ladies | Madrigal | John Dowland | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/fineknac.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres | 16 | 1600 | ||
| From Heaven Above To Earth I Come | Hymn | Martin Luther | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/From-Heaven-Above-To-Earth-I-Come.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | VOM HIMMEL HOCH | 16 | |||
| Gathering peascods | Dance | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Playford_new/peascods.pdf | Past | No | English Dancing Master | 16 | 1651 | ||||
| Gaudete! Gaudete! Christus est natus | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gaudete.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Piae Cantiones | 16 | 1582 | ||
| Gaudete! Gaudete! Christus est natus | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gaudete.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Piae Cantiones | 15 | 1582 | ||
| Grimstock | Dance | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Playford_new/grimstoc.pdf | Past | No | 16 | ||||||
| Half Hannikin | Dance | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Playford_new/halfhann.pdf | Past | No | English Dancing Master | 16 | 1651 | ||||
| Heart’s Ease | Dance | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Playford_new/heartsez.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | English Dancing Master | 16 | 1651 | lyrics 1560 | |
| His Golden Locks | Song | John Dowland | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/His-Golden-Locks.pdf | Idea | 1 | Yes | English | 16 | ||||
| Hole in the Wall | Dance | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Playford_new/hole_sum.pdf | Past | No | English Dancing Master | 17 | 1651 | ||||
| In Dulci Jubilo | Carol | Henrich Seuse | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/In-Dulci-Jubilo.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | Latin / German | 14 | 1328 | ||||
| It was a lover and his lasse | Madrigal | Thomas Morley | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Morley/Saver/it_was.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | First Booke of Ayres | 16 | 1600 | ||
| Jog On | Song | John Playford | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Playford_new/jog_on.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | English Dancing Master | 17 | 1651 | ||
| Jouyssance vous donneray | Dance | Thoinot Arbeau | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Arbeau/jouyssan.pdf | Past | No | Orchesographie | 16 | 1588 | ||||
| Kyrie from Missa de beata Virgine II | Mass | Francisco Guerrero | Nancho Alvarez | http://www.uma.es/victoria/guerrero.html#misas | Started | 4 | Yes | Latin | 16 | ||||
| La Battaille (Pavane V) | Instrumental | Tylman Susato | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Renaiss/battaill.pdf | Past | No | Danserye | 16 | 1551 | ||||
| La Morisque | Instrumental | Tylman Susato | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Shawm/moris_a.pdf | Past | No | Danserye | 16 | 1551 | ||||
| Laudemus Virginem and Splendens ceptigera | Plainchant | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cannons.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 | 12/8/2015 | ||
| Lullay, Lullay, As I lay on Yules night | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/As-I-lay-on-Yules-night.pdf | Current | 2 | Yes | English | Cambridge University MS Add. 5943 | 15 | voice and harp | 12/21/2019 | |
| Mariam Matrem | Song | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Mariam-Matrem.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 | 12/8/2015 | ||
| Mass for Three Voices | Mass | William Byrd | Allen Garvin | http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/7/72/01-byrd–mass_a_3—0-score.pdf | Started | 3 | Yes | Latin | Christ Church, Oxford Mus. 492 | 16 | 1592 | ||
| Missa Brevis: Benedictus | Mass | Giovani de Palestrina | Todd Marsh | Missa Brevis Benedictus ATB.pdf | Past | 3 | No | 16 | probably misnamed | ||||
| Mon Dieu, la belle entrée du grand Roy des François | Song | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Mon-Dieu-la-belle-entree-of-the-Ansteorran-King.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | 17 | 1610 | 1 voice, 3 instruments, New lyrics. | ||
| Nova, Nova | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nova-Nova.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | English / Latin | English | 15 | 12/8/2016 | ||
| Now is the month of Maying | Madrigal | Thomas Morley | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/maying.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | The first booke of balletts to five voyces | 16 | 1595 | ||
| Now may we syngyn as it is | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Now-may-we-singen-as-it-is.pdf | Current | 2 | Yes | English | Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58 | 15 | 1420 | 12/21/2019 | |
| Now, o now I needs must part | Song | John Dowland | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Dowland/nowonow2.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | 16 | ||||
| Nowel sing we both all and some | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nowell-sing-we.pdf | Current | 2 | Yes | English | Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58 | 15 | 1420 | 12/21/2019 | |
| Nowel, Out of your sleep arise and wake | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Nowell-Nowell-Out-of-your-sleep.pdf | Current | 2 | Yes | English | Bodleian Library Oxford MS Arch. Seldon B. 26 | 15 | 12/21/2019 | ||
| Nuttmigs and Ginger | Instrumental | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/nutmegs.pdf | Past | No | 16 | ||||||
| O Mistress Mine | Song | Thomas Morley | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Morley/Saver/mistresf.pdf | Started | 4 | Yes | English | First Book of Consort Lessons | 16 | 1599 | lyrics from William Shakespreare’s Twelfth Night, Act II, scene 3 | |
| Orientis Partibus | Motet | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Orientis-Partibus.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | French | 12 | |||
| Pastime with Good Company | Song | Henry Tudor | Allen Garvin | http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/images/0/0a/02-henry_viii–pastime—0-score.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | Henry VIII songbook (GB-Lbl Add. 31922, c.1518) | 16 | 1518 | ||
| Psallite Unigenito | Song | Michael Praetorius | Jo-Ann Sheffer | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Psallite-Unigenito.pdf | Past | Yes | Latin / German | 16 | |||||
| Quem pastores laudavere | Motet | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Quem-pastores-laudavere.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Hoenfurth Manuscript | 14 | |||
| Salutation carol | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Salutation-Carol-with-words.pdf | Current | 1 | Yes | English | Bodleian MS Eng. Poet E. 1 | 15 | 12/21/2019 | ||
| Sellenger’s Round | Dance | William Byrd | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Playford_new/sellengr.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | Fitzwilliam Virginal Book | 17 | 1651 | Lyrics by Anon, from the Pepys Ballads | |
| Shall I sue shall I seeke for grace | Song | John Dowland | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Shall-I-Sue-in-E-dorian.pdf | Started | 4 | Yes | English | The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres | 16 | 1600 | ||
| Sing wee and chaunt it | Madrigal | Thomas Morley | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Morley/sing_we.pdf | Past | 5 | Yes | English | The first booke of balletts to five voyces | 16 | 1595 | ||
| Sir Francis Drake; Or Eighty Eight | Broadside Ballad | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Eballads/Disk2/francis.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | A Banquet of Jests, 6th ed., 1640 | 16 | 1640 | ||
| Stella Splendens | Song | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Llibre/stella.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 14 | |||
| The Angel Gabriel | Carol | Anonymous | Pettman | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Angel-Gabriel-Bosque-carol.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | Basque | 16 | |||
| The Coventry Carol | Carol | Anonymous | Steve Hendricks | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/coventry-hendricks.pdf | Past | 4 | Yes | English | Coventry mystery plays | 15 | |||
| The Famous Ratketcher | Song | Shirburn Ballads | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/ratketch.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | 16 | ||||
| The Great Galleazzo | Broadside Ballad | Thomas Deloney | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/galleazo.pdf | Started | 4 | Yes | English | 16 | 1588 | |||
| The Holly and The Ivy | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Holly-and-the-Ivy-Duet.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | English | 15 | ||||
| The Silver Swan | Madrigal | Orlando Gibbons | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Eballads/silversw.pdf | Idea | 5 | Yes | English | The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of 5 Parts | 17 | 1612 | ||
| Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ther-is-no-Rose-of-Swych-Vertu.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | English | Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58 | 15 | 1420 | ||
| Una Sanosa porfia | Song | Juan del Encina | Steve Hendricks | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Una-sañosa-porfía-10-verses.pdf | Started | Yes | Spanish | 16 | |||||
| Unto the Prophet Jonas I read | Song | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Packingtons-Pound.pdf | Idea | 3 | Yes | English | Broadside ballad from the Pepys collection, 1615 | 16 | 1615 | The melody is called Packington’s Pound , and was known before the lyrics. | |
| Ut Queant Laxis | Plainchant | Anonymous | Andrew Henderson | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ut_queant_laxis.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Guido d’ Arezzo | 11 | |||
| Veni, Veni, Emanuel | Plainchant | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Veni-veni-duet.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | Latin | Words: 9th cen. Latin, Music: 15th cen. French | 15 | |||
| Verbum Caro Factum Est | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Verbum-Caro-Factum-Est.pdf | Past | 1 | Yes | Latin | Piae Cantiones | 15 | 1582 | ||
| What Tidings Bringest Thou | Carol | Anonymous | Todd Marsh | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/What-Tidings-Bringest-Thou.pdf | Past | 2 | Yes | English | Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58 | 15 | 1420 | ||
| Where the bee sucks | Song | Robert Johnson | Steve Hendricks | https://sca.uwaterloo.ca/sca/Hendricks/Holborne_waits/wherebee.pdf | Idea | 4 | Yes | English | John Wilson’s Cheerful Ayres or Ballads | 17 | 1660 | ||
| Who made thee, Hob, forsake thy plow? | Duet | William Byrd | http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Who-made-thee-Hob.pdf | Started | 6 | Yes | English | 16 | 2 voices, 4 recorders |
Mon Dieu, la belle entrée Du grand roy des François
Mon Dieu, la belle entrée
Sung to the tune of: Mon Dieu, la belle entrée du grand Roy des François
Mon Dieu, la belle entrée of the Ansteorran King,
The nobles rise to bow while the people stand and sing.
The Queen in all her glory, inspiring chivalry,
Joins in our story of nobility.
The grandeur of the court is a marvel to behold.
The ladies crowned with jewels, and the Knights all chained in Gold.
Counselors in their red hats lined with ermine like their gown,
Wear chains of office that show great renown.
The honored artisans, with their laurel wreath displayed,
Enhance the realm’s beauty, as do Masters with the blade.
But the King that leads us all is the symbol of our fame,
So let us call our kingdom’s glorious name.
Mon Dieu, la belle entrée of the Ansteorran King,
The nobles rise to bow and the people stand to sing.
The Queen in all her glory, inspiring chivalry,
Joins in our story of nobility.
The written music can be found here.
A good recording is at https://open.spotify.com/track/0DglgyOp4bBSGeCYVyHdcO?si=kJS1vd9aQgK2jGhn0lSzDw
Medieval Christmas 2019 – The Carol
Medieval Christmas 2019 – The Carol
- Prelude: Personent Hodie, harp
- Carol as a medieval dance
- Cantigas de Santa Maria – 167: Quen quér que na Virgen fía
- 15th Century Carol Sources
- Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58
– Now may we syngyn as it is (2 part)
– Deo Gracias Anglia (2 part)
– Nowel sing we both all and some (2 part)
- Trinity Roll, Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.58
- French Noel songs
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- Hymn 237 Sing we now of Christmas
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- 15th Century Carol Sources
- Bodleian Library Oxford MS Arch. Seldon B. 26
- Nowel, Out of your sleep arise and wake (unison burden, 2 part verse)
- Alleluia: Now well may we mirthes make (unison, alto recorder)
- British Museum MS Egerton 3307
- Ave Rex Angelorum (alto and tenor recorders)
- Bodleian Library Oxford MS Arch. Seldon B. 26
- Instrumental
- Cantigas de Santa Maria – 353: Quen a omagen da Virgen
- 15th Century Carol Sources
- Cambridge University MS Add. 5943
- Lullay, Lullay, As I lay on Yules night (unison and harp)
- Bodleian MS Eng. Poet E. 1
- Salutation carol (solo and chorus)
- Cambridge University MS Add. 5943
- Postlude:
- Cantigas de Santa Maria – 166: Como Poden
St Romanos Chorale
On Aug 10 we started on some new music, including:
| Title | Source | Notes |
| Now may we syngyn | Trinity Roll | 2 part |
| Nowel sing we now | Trinity Roll | 2 part |
| Chant Kyrie | The plainchant on which the Kyrie was based | |
| Kyrie | Guerrero, Missa de beata Virgine II | from http://www.uma.es/victoria/guerrero.html#misas |