Dear lute netters, According to
Sally Harper, "An Elizabethan Tune List from Lleweni Hall, North Wales", Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 38 (2005), pp. 45-98
'A pleasant ballad of the mery miller's wooing of the Baker's daughter of Manchester' in the Shirburn Ballads, beginning 'The miller in his best array, / would needs a wooinge ride' is prescribed to be sung with this tune.[the tune "Nutmegs and ginger"]
On the other hand there is a piece "A Miller would a-wooing ride" in the Westminster fragment which is concordant with Holborne's "The Miller", CS, C4v.
I can't see any connection. Any idea, anybody? Rainer adS To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
