Ravenscroft, Thomas: Rounds, Canons and Songs from Printed Sources
£104.00
Edited by John Morehen and David Mateer
First published in 2012
Pages: 248
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 28
Weight: 1.74kg
This is the first complete edition of the rounds, canons and songs from Ravenscroft’s four principal publications: Pammelia, Deuteromelia, Melismata and A Briefe Discourse. Thomas Ravenscroft (c.1582–c.1635) was a collector, editor and theorist as well as a composer, whose work was esteemed in his own lifetime and is valued today for its insights into the popular music of the period. Rounds and canons in this collection are all presented in resolved form, and the variety of subjects includes drinking songs, hunting songs and four songs in West Country dialect, as well as Latin-texted material. It is hoped that performers may be inspired to breathe new life into a repertoire that sheds fascinating light on a hitherto neglected area of Elizabethan music-making.
CONTENTS
| Composer | Title |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | A bellman’s song (Maids to bed) |
| Anonymous | A Christmas carol (Remember, O thou man) |
| Anonymous | A miller would I be |
| Anonymous | A song of pages, cashiered from their masters (Long have we bin perplexed) |
| Anonymous | A wooing song of a yeoman of Kent’s son (I have house and land in Kent) |
| Anonymous | Adiuva nos Deus |
| Anonymous | All into service let us ring |
| Anonymous | All into service let us ring (Lant version) |
| Anonymous | All into service, the bells toll |
| Anonymous | And seest thou my cow today, Fowler? |
| Anonymous | As I me walked in a May morning |
| Anonymous | As I me walked on a morning fair (Melvill version) |
| Anonymous | As I went by the way, holum trolum |
| Anonymous | As it fell on a holy day |
| Anonymous | Ascendit Christus in coelum |
| Anonymous | Attend, my people, and give ear |
| Anonymous | Banbury Ale |
| Anonymous | Benedic, Domine, nobis his donis tuis |
| Anonymous | Birch and green holly |
| Anonymous | Blow thy horn, thou jolly hunter |
| Anonymous | Brooms for old shoes |
| Anonymous | Browning madam |
| Anonymous | Browning madam (Lant version) |
| Anonymous | By a bank as I lay |
| Anonymous | By hills and dales she rode |
| Anonymous | By merry Landsdale, hey ho (I) |
| Anonymous | By merry Landsdale, hey ho (II) (‘Another way’) |
| Anonymous | Cantate Domino canticum novum |
| Anonymous | Come, drink to me, and I will drink to thee |
| Anonymous | Come, follow me merrily, my mates |
| Anonymous | Conditor Kyrie omnium qui vivunt |
| Anonymous | Dame, lend me a loaf |
| Anonymous | Dame, lend me a loaf (Melvill version) |
| Anonymous | Delicta quis intelligit? |
| Anonymous | Derry ding ding dasson |
| Anonymous | Descendit Christus de coelo |
| Anonymous | Domine Fili Dei vivi miserere nostri |
| Anonymous | Donez à boire |
| Anonymous | Emitte lucem tuam et veritatem |
| Anonymous | Exaudi Domine orationem meam |
| Anonymous | Fa, mi, fa, re, la, mi |
| Anonymous | Farewell, mine own sweet heart |
| Anonymous | Fides est anima vita (I) |
| Anonymous | Fides est anima vita (II) |
| Anonymous | Follow me quickly |
| Anonymous | Give us once a drink |
| Anonymous | Glad am I |
| Anonymous | Go no more to Brainford |
| Anonymous | Go to Joan Glover |
| Anonymous | Haec est vita aeterna |
| Anonymous | He that will an alehouse keep |
| Anonymous | Hey, down a down (I) |
| Anonymous | Hey, down a down (II) |
| Anonymous | Hey, down a down (III) |
| Anonymous | Hey, down a down (IV) |
| Anonymous | Hey ho! nobody at home |
| Anonymous | Hey ho! nobody at home (Lant version) |
| Anonymous | Hey ho! nobody at home (six-part adaptation) |
| Anonymous | Hey ho! nobody at home (three-part adaptation) |
| Anonymous | Hey ho! To the greenwood now let us go |
| Anonymous | Hey ho, what shall I say? |
| Anonymous | Hold thy peace |
| Anonymous | Hold thy peace (Melvill version) |
| Anonymous | How should I sing well, and not be weary |
| Anonymous | I am a-thirst, what should I say? |
| Anonymous | I C U B A K |
| Anonymous | I lay with an old man all the night |
| Anonymous | I pray you, good mother |
| Anonymous | In te Domine speravi |
| Anonymous | Intende voci orationis meae |
| Anonymous | Jack, boy, ho boy, news |
| Anonymous | Jinkin the jester was wont to make glee |
| Anonymous | Joan, come kiss me now |
| Anonymous | Jolly shepherd and upon a hill as he sate |
| Anonymous | Joy in the gates of Jerusalem |
| Anonymous | Keep well your ray, my lads |
| Anonymous | Kit and Tom chid-a |
| Anonymous | Lady, come down and see |
| Anonymous | Laudate nomen Domini (I) |
| Anonymous | Laudate nomen Domini (II) |
| Anonymous | Let Lobcock leave his wife at home |
| Anonymous | Let’s have a peal for John Cook’s soul (I) |
| Anonymous | Let’s have a peal for John Cook’s soul (II) |
| Anonymous | Let’s have a peal for John Cook’s soul (II) (alternative version) |
| Anonymous | Libera me Domine a persequentibus me |
| Anonymous | Lord, hear the poor that cry |
| Anonymous | Love, sweet love |
| Anonymous | Malt’s come down |
| Anonymous | Mane nobiscum Christe |
| Anonymous | Margery, serve well the black sow |
| Anonymous | Martin said to his man |
| Anonymous | Mercury’s song: the messenger of the gods (Haste, haste) |
| Anonymous | Miserere mei Deus |
| Anonymous | Miserere nostri Domine (I) |
| Anonymous | Miserere nostri Domine (II) |
| Anonymous | Musing mine own self all alone |
| Anonymous | My dame has in her hutch at home |
| Anonymous | My mistress will not be content |
| Anonymous | New oysters (I) |
| Anonymous | New oysters (II) |
| Anonymous | Now God be with old Simeon |
| Anonymous | Now kiss the cup, cousin, with courtesy |
| Anonymous | Now, Robin, lend to me thy bow |
| Anonymous | Now thanked be the great god Pan |
| Anonymous | O Lord, in Thee is all my trust |
| Anonymous | O Lord of whom I do depend |
| Anonymous | O Lord, turn not away Thy face |
| Anonymous | O my fearful dreams never forget shall I |
| Anonymous | O my love, lov’st thou me? |
| Anonymous | O praise the Lord, ye that fear him |
| Anonymous | Oaken leaves in the merry wood so wild |
| Anonymous | Of all the birds that ever I see |
| Anonymous | Ora et labora |
| Anonymous | Ora et labora (five-part version) |
| Anonymous | Pietas omnium virtutum |
| Anonymous | Quicquid petieritis |
| Anonymous | Servants out of service are going to the city to look for new [masters] (Hey ho! away) |
| Anonymous | Si non pavisti occidisti |
| Anonymous | Sing after, fellows, as you hear me |
| Anonymous | Sing after, fellows, as you hear me (Lant version) |
| Anonymous | Sing we now merrily |
| Anonymous | Sing we this roundelay merrily, my mate |
| Anonymous | Sing with thy mouth, sing with thy heart |
| Anonymous | Sing you now after me |
| Anonymous | The courtier’s courtship to his mistress (Will ye love me) |
| Anonymous | The courtier’s good morrow to his mistress (Canst thou love) |
| Anonymous | The crier’s song of Cheapside (Oyez, Oyez!) |
| Anonymous | The crowning of Belphoebe (Now flowers) |
| Anonymous | The fly she sat in Shamble Row |
| Anonymous | The great bells of Osney |
| Anonymous | The jolly old dog as he lay in his den-a |
| Anonymous | The lark, linnet and nightingale |
| Anonymous | The maid she went a-milking |
| Anonymous | The marriage of the frog and the mouse (It was the frog) |
| Anonymous | The merry nightingale |
| Anonymous | The old dog as he lay in his den-a (Winchester version) |
| Anonymous | The painters’ song of London (Where are you, fair maids) |
| Anonymous | The pigeon is never woe |
| Anonymous | The scrivener’s servant’s song of Holborn (My master is so wise) |
| Anonymous | The urchins’ dance (By the moon) |
| Anonymous | The white hen she cackles |
| Anonymous | The wind blows out of the west |
| Anonymous | There lies a pudding in the fire |
| Anonymous | There were three ravens sat on a tree |
| Anonymous | Three blind mice |
| Anonymous | Three blind mice (Melvill version) |
| Anonymous | To Portsmouth it is a gallant town |
| Anonymous | Tomorrow the fox will come to town |
| Anonymous | Troll the bowl and drink to me (Winchester version of Hey ho! nobody at home) |
| Anonymous | Troll the bowl to me |
| Anonymous | Universa transeunt |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, mi, re, ut |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, mi, re, ut (four-part version) |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (I) |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (I) (Melvill version) |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (II) |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (III) |
| Anonymous | Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (IV) |
| Anonymous | Verbum Domini manet in aeternum |
| Anonymous | Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi |
| Anonymous | We be soldiers three |
| Anonymous | We be three poor mariners |
| Anonymous | Well fare the nightingale |
| Anonymous | What hap had I to marry a shrow |
| Anonymous | White wine and sugar is good drink for me |
| Anonymous | Who liveth so merry in all this land |
| Anonymous | Willy, prithee go to bed |
| Anonymous | Yonder comes a courteous knight |
| Bennet, John | A hunt’s up (The hunt is up) |
| Bennet, John | For the hern and duck (Lure, falconers, lure) |
| Bennet, John | The elves’ dance (Round about) |
| Bennet, John | The servant of his mistress (My mistress is as fair) |
| Bennet, John | Their wedlocke (A borgens a borgen) |
| Bennet, John | Three fools (What seekest thou, fool) |
| Lasso, Orlando di | Célébrons sans cesse de Dieu les bontés |
| L’Estocart, Paschal de | A Dieu seul soit honneur et gloire |
| L’Estocart, Paschal de | Saincté escriture te propose |
| Pearce, Edward | A hunting song (Hey trola, trola!) |
| Pearce, Edward | The mistress of her servant (Love for such a cherry lip) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | A hawk’s up, for a hunt’s up (Awake, awake) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | For the partridge (Sith sickles) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Hodge Trillindle to his zweet hort Malkin (Vurst bart) (Coame, Malkin) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Malkinz answer to Hodge Trillindle (Zecund bart) (Yo tell ma zo) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Their goncluzion (Dhurd bart) (Ich con but zweare) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Of ale (Toss the pot) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Of ale and tobacco (Tobacco fumes) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Of beer (Trudge away quickly) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | The fairies’ dance (Dare you haunt) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | The satyrs’ dance (Round, around-a) |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas | Their marriage solemnized (Leave off, Hymen) |
| Various | A Briefe Discourse (1614) |
| Various | Deuteromelia (1609) |
| Various | Melismata (1611) |
| Various | Pammelia (1609) |
