> To whit: the
> French style which Ford's songs probably do not represent are airs
> de cour, "songs of the court", not airs de coeur, "songs of the
> heart". Just sayin', that's all.
What a difference one little letter can make! Yes, I see that now.
"My bad." (Don't you just hate this modern slang?)
Thanks everybody!
> Best to all, and keep playing,
>
Ditto!
Tom
> Chris.
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Sean Smith <[1][email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
> I don't see any replies to your question --"Have you driven a
> Ford discussion lately?"-- so here's what I know. He certainly
> doesn't figure prominently in the first string of late
> Elizabethan or Jacobean composers but one book of his survives:
> Musicke of Sundrie Kindes Set forth in two Bookes. The First
> Whereof Are Aries [sic] for 4 Voices to the Lute, Orphorion, or
> Basse Viol, with a Dialogue for two Voices, and two Basse Viols
> in parts, tunde the Lute way. The Second are Pavens, Galiards,
> Almaines, Toies, Iigges, Thumpes and suchlike, for two
> Basse-Viols, the Lieraway, so made as the greatest number may
> serve to play alone, very easie to be performde. Composed by
> Thomas Ford ... John Windet ... Fleetstreet 1607. I wrote out the
> entire title to give an idea of what was where in his books. They
> were printed together and reprinted by Scolar Press in 1978. The
> pieces you mentioned are in the 2nd Booke and are set for two
> bass viols written in lute tablature much like the Tobias Hume
> books (1605, 1607). He was no doubt familiar with at least the
> first TH book since he also gives the wide option of almost any
> combination (or solo). Both are printed by John Windet. Hume
> takes it one further by setting his second book for trios, also
> for viols or nearly any combination of lutes, viols and/or
> orpharions. The 'lira-way' tuning is similar to bandora tuning.
> You should be able to transcribe the bandora pieces for lute
> (something Nancy Carlin has been doing from the Holmes lutebooks,
> btw). I haven't tried Fnord's but Hume's viol music sounds very
> nice on lute(s) and wires. Two other English composers included
> lira-way viol pieces (Corkine, Maynard) so the solo viol was
> apparently enjoying a relative popularity at the time. I'm not
> sure these would join the Airs de Coeur club as the songs he
> wrote are very English in composition (at least the ones I know
> --I could be mistaken since it's been a while). I don't know of
> an on-line source for these so if you can't find them, let me
> know and I'll send you some scans. best wishes, Sean
>
> On Feb 24, 2012, at 10:07 AM, [2][email protected] wrote:
> Dear Lute Friends,
> A student of mine heard some Thomas Ford airs de coeur on
> public radio performed by Godelieve Monden and Narcisso Yepes.
> The selections are:
> Allemande
> Forget Me Not
> A Pavan
> A Galliard
> The Bagpipes
> The Wild Goose Chase
> Are these available anywhere in Fronimo or PDF?
> Thanks,
> Tom
> Tom Draughon
> Heartistry Music
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> Ashland, WI 54806
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