6 Elizabethan Songs

A superb collection of Elizabethan Songs composed by Ivor Gurney and set to a variety of texts from Shakespeare to John Fletcher and Thomas Nashe. Arranged for High Voice and Piano Accompaniment.

Five songs from the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Six Elizabethan Songs Songs about Spring and more.

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

Second set of Elizabethan Love Songs edited and arranged by Frederick Keel for High Voice and 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.

The volume includes three partsongs to Elizabethan texts, Diaphenia, Corydin, Arise!, Shall we go Dance? and four partsongs to texts by Mary E. Coleridge, When Mary thro' the Garden Went, The Blue Bird, The Haven and Chillingham.

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.