Elizabethan Songs

This new edition of Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs includes a composer commentary and access to companion recorded piano accompaniments online for download or streaming. / Voix Grave Et Piano

Here is a book of tunes from the Elizabethan era - the great period of English song - set in tablature for the clawhammer banjo. At first glance, it is true, the songs of Shakespeare's day and the mountain banjo seem to be worlds apart. But the musical traditions are, in fact, related, as Elizabethan songs are the old world cousins of mountain tunes. As a result, Elizabethan tunes are a natural way to extend the mountain banjo repertoire for intermediate and advanced players. Their pedigree, their modal feel, the lilting rhythms, and the ease with which they can be adapted to the banjo argue the case. At the same time, they open the possibility for new sounds - in particular new rhythms - for the old instrument, pushing the banjo beyond unnatural limitations and giving it a new voice. Each section of the book is organized around a traditional mountain tuning, with a mountain song serving as a model of that tuning, illuminating the relationship between the two musical worlds. 'The Bard's Banjo? is the first banjo instruction book devoted to the repertoire of Elizabethan song. Free audio downloads are available for use with this title. / Banjo (5 Cordes) / 36 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire/Avancé / Partition - Format: 11 X 8,5

Book 2. Par PILKINGTON MICHAEL. The two books contain some 100 songs chosen from the definitive collections of The English Lutenists begun by Edmund Fellowes, revised by Thurston Dart and added to by later scholars. They include many favourites and many lesser-known songs by popular composers such as Dowland, Campion and Pilkington (no known ancestor of the compiler) as well as some unjustly forgotten such as Corkine, Attey and Ferrabosco. Nearly all are for middle-range voice, with lute parts transcribed in staff notation. The books have an appropriate preface and a commentary on the words, which often throw a penetrating light on Elizabethan and Jacobean life./ Recueil / Chant et Piano

E.J. Moeran's Songs Of Springtime is a collection of seven Elizabethan poems set to music.Here Shakespeare's Sigh No More Ladies is scored for SATB Chorus.

For Violin And Piano-Commissioned to create folk song arrangements Adler chose two compelling Southern Appalachian folk songs brought to our shores by English immigrants and having origins in Elizabethan times. Married and Single Life is a slow dance while Brennan on the Moor recalling the location in Britain and transplanting it to Virginia is a reel - a rambunctious dance constantly changing partners always keeping on dancing until the participants fall exhausted. Both of these short movements are variations on the original tune which is heard in its entirety at least once in the piece.

for High Voice and Guitar or Piano-Album includes settings of Elizabethan-era texts: Matin Song by Thomas Heywood The Tiger by William Blake and To Music To Becalm His Fever by Robert Herrick. The work was premiered by Rebecca Scott and may be performed with either guitar or piano accompaniment.

Par DOWLAND JOHN. Edited by Thurston Dart and Nigel Fortune 13 of the finest settings taken from John Dowland: Ayres for Four Voices, originally transcribed as Volume 6 of Musica Britannica by Edmund Fellowes. The Elizabethan and Jacobean lutesongs were often written with alternative versions for voices and lute. This volume is an introductory selection of these ‘airs’, with accompaniment which may be played on guitar or keyboard as well as lute. SATB CONTENTS Burst forth my tears By a fountain where I lay Can she excuse my wrongs Come again sweet love doth now invite Come away, come sweet love Come heavy sleep Fine knacks for ladies Go crystal tears If my complaints Now o now I needs must part Sleep wayward thoughts Sweet stay awhile Weep you no more sad fountains/ Répertoire / SATB

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Number two of Three Elizabethan Part-Songs arranged for SSA by W. R. Pasfield./ Feuillet / SSA