>> Coming Saturday I am to play for two hours during a dinner. The >> request was for early-Baroque dance music, but I think that can be >> interpreted as anything between 1500 and 1700 of a lively nature.
agreed, playford and broadside music should give you lots of variety. There are some items intended to tweak the puritans long nose, "Unto the Prophet Jonas I Read", and Watkins Ale itself (both on their Watkins Ale CD) come to mind, but the full humor of each is only to be had witht he text, so perhaps a written program is needed. Dont limit yourself to lute tho, if you have an orpharion twould be better than a lute methinks, if not, perhaps a cittern for some variety, switching off with the lute. >> I'll now walk to my music shelves and see with what sort of one-stop >> solution I can come up with, but I'm sure some of you will be even >> faster. ;-) English Country Dance players rely on Peter Barnes edition _English Country Dance Tunes_ which includes most, if not all, that Playford published, and more (even some O Carolan). PB has another out I notice, _ English Country Dance Tunes Volume Two_ I notice he has recorded witht he ROyal Scotish Contry Dance Society, it may be one can purchase his books in England, somewhat closer to you. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
