Dear David,
A good reference source is JOHN WARD's _Music for Elizabethan Lutes_ (2
vols.), and one would surely start with PHILIP VAN WILDER, as early as
1525
a member of the King’s Musick (ps: G. Crona cites the Lute Society
edition**). Ward has a list of works by Wilder on page 5-6. Many are in
familiar, but later, lute manuscripts: Paston Lute Book (ii),
Wickhambrook,
Willoughby etc.. Most are attr. to "Phillip," and some may be by Peter
Phillips, but Ward tries to separate them out. These include "Dumpe
philli"
and "Artheres dumpe" (Fink* Nos. 16 and 17).
RAPH BOWLE'S LUTE BOOK (London, BL, Stowe 389) includes "Kyng Henry the
VIIIth Pavyn" (transc. Ex. 8 in vol. 2 of Ward).
And what is surely one of the the most beautiful songs of the English
16th
century, "My hearte ys Leifd on the Londe" (Facs. with underlaid lyrics
Plate 4 in vol. 1; melody Ex. 6a in vol. 2--Ward's underlaid lyrics could
be
improved). Ward provides the complete lyrics in the Commentary, page 107.
If sung, this would provide the lutenist with lots of opportunity to
improvise divisions for each of the eleven stanzas.
London, BL, ROYAL APPENDIX 58, has several pieces of interest incl. the
"Duke of Somersetes Dompe" (Fink No. 1).
The most famous piece, lyrics presumably by Henry VIII, is "Pastyme with
Good Company." It uses a borrowed melody, known on the Continent as "De
mon
triste."
Richafort's setting is intabulated by Francesco, and as a fantasia by him
and by Pierino Fiorentino (Ness, App. No. 32). The melody turns up all
over
the place, incl. as a Lutheran chorale (harmonized by JSB), etc.,
etc., and even in a songbook in the Huron Native American language (as
Charlotte discovered in a term paper).
I found it in an out of the way place, as a canzone titled "Pas de mi bon
compagni" in Pre Melchiore de Barberiis's _Opera intitolata Contino_
(Venice, 1549), sig Ee3v. How'd it get there? Barberiis knew the papal
secretary Bembo. So much Italian music flowed westward to the British
Isles,
but practically no English music found its way to the Continent until the
advent of Dowland and his contemporaries.
*Michael Fink, ed., _Down in the Dompes: The Collected English Lute
Dumps_
(LGV Publishing, Inc., 2008;
www.lgv-pub.com). French tablature.
**David Humphreys et al., eds., _Philip van Wilder: Music for Lute and
Chanson Transcriptions._ 49 pp.
http://www.lutesoc.co.uk/pages/catalogue#c
It's a start with a fascinating repertory, David.
Arthur.
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From: "David van Ooijen" <[email protected]>
To: "lutelist Net" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 6:46 AM
Subject: [LUTE] English solo music ca 1500-1525?
A question to the collected wisdom. I am looking for English solo
music from the first quarter of the 16th century. To be more precise,
from the first 15 years of the reign of Henry VIII and if possible
connected to him or his court in any way, but I cannot have it all, I
suppose, so near misses will be considered right on target. Any
suggestions welcome.
David
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