| Title: |
Complete Works II: Private Musicke or The First Booke of Ayres and Dialogues (1620) |
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| Composer: |
Martin Peerson |
| Editor: |
Richard Rastall |
| Reference: |
AB4 |
| Price (GBP): |
9.75 (score); 16.25 (parts) |
| Description: |
This second volume of Martin Peerson’s complete works is mainly devoted to the twenty-four songs published in 1620. Fourteen of these (including Upon my lap my soveraigne sits, Peerson’s only work well known today) are in four parts; eight are in five; and two (including an ambitious setting of Ben Jonson’s poem See, O see who is heere come a-maying composed for the royal May-day celebrations in 1604) are in six. Mingling pieces in a thoroughly madrigalian all-vocal style with others involving instruments (ideally a consort of viols, or a keyboard instrument or a lute, or even a solo bass viol), this collection illustrates the variety of English song during the reign of James I. Also included in this edition are six songs from manuscript sources: four three-part arrangements of songs from Private Musicke and two others which may be by Peerson. For various combinations of treble, alto, tenor and bass voices, plus instruments. Score xvi + 64 pages, ISMN 979-0-57039-003-8. Instrumental parts for viols, ISMN 979-0-57039-004-5.
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| Contents: |
- Open the dore (a 4)
- Resolv’d to love (a 4)
- Ah, were she pittifull (a 4)
- Disdaine, that so doth fill me (a 4)
- O pretious time (a 4)
- Can a mayde that is will bred (a 4)
- O I doe love (a 4)
- Since just disdaine began to rise (a 4)
- At her faire hands (a 4)
- Now Robin, laugh and sing (a 4)
- Hey the horne (a 4)
- Upon my lap my soveraigne sits (a 4)
- Locke up, fair lids (a 4)
- Love her no more (a 4)
- Come, pretty wag, and sing (a 5)
- Then with reports (a 5)
- Pretty wantons, sweetly sing (a 5)
- Sing, Love is blind (a 5)
- What need the morning rise? (a 5)
- Gaze not on youth (a 5)
- I onely seeke to please mine eye (a 5)
- The spring of joy is dry (a 5)
- Is not that my fancie’s queene? (a 6)
- See, O see who is heere come a-maying (a 6)
- Come, pritty wagg, and sing (a 3)
- Sing, Love is blind (a 3)
- To pitch our toyles (a 3)
- Then with reports (a 3)
- What need the morning rise? (a 3)
- To pitch our toyles (a 5)
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