I am working on a program for December and have been collecting
pieces related to the December holiday season.
I have already gathered many settings of En m'en revenant / Branle de
St. Nicolas / More Palatino (Fuhrmann, Hove, Bacheler, Ulm mandora,
Buonamente, Frescobaldi, Gibbons, Besard, Steenwick, and a couple
vocal settings) with the intention of picking some of the nicer
settings and ornamentation and arranging it for guitars and/or lutes
(there are three of us playing with several instrument possibilities).
Ruth van Braak Griffioen's book "Jakob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-
Hof" has a very long listing of settings of this tune. (Though for
some reason she missed the Rowallen "Swit St. Nikolas" (going by
memory on that title), though knew of a Skene setting.)
She lists a few settings which I would be interested in seeing:
Stobaeus (GB-Lbm Sloane MS 1021) with six settings (? perhaps she
means variations)
Brahe Lute Book -- two settings which may be listed as "More
Palatino" [ on f. 35v-36, and f. 37)(one underlaid with the Swedish
text "Hörtt an menischligh Creatur"
Might anyone be willing to share tablatures of any of these settings?
-- R
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