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30 Aug 10 - 04:06 AM (#2975689) Subject: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: wulfnoth Hi all and hello (first post). Does anyone know of any songs from around the end of the 15th centuary/beginning of the 16th. Any help greatly appreciated wulfnoth |
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30 Aug 10 - 04:09 AM (#2975690) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Georgiansilver Try this site... should help. |
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30 Aug 10 - 04:12 AM (#2975691) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Georgiansilver And this one. |
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30 Aug 10 - 04:14 AM (#2975693) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Georgiansilver Both the above sites give access to the tune which is helpful.. Best wishes, Mike. |
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30 Aug 10 - 05:25 AM (#2975714) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Jack Campin For the earlier part of that period, get hold of Dobson and Harrison's book "Mediaeval English Songs". It includes the tunes and the fullest known versions of the texts. The web still can't compete with paper for some things. |
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30 Aug 10 - 08:13 AM (#2975790) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Alas the Dobson and Harrison book is rare, asking price running $300-400 and up. Perhaps a major library has it, but I have found no etext on the web. I don't know if the following pretty song will help you. It is reproduced from the Dobson and Harrison book via another book. The melody is given with the text at: http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/displaysong.php?songid=811 MIRIE IT IS Mirie it is, while sumer ilast, With fugheles song. Oc nu necheth wides blast, And weder strong. Ey! Ey! what this night is long! And ich, with well michel wrong, Soregh and murne and fast. (Modern English Translation: It is pleasant, while summer lasts, with the birds' song. But now, the storming wind comes on, and severe weather. Alas! how long this night is, and I, because of very great wrong, grieve, and mourn and fast.) |
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30 Aug 10 - 08:16 AM (#2975793) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: GUEST,Bob Coltman P.S. I do realize this one is too early for what you want. Still, such things are so hard to come by, I thought it was worth posting it. Bob |
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30 Aug 10 - 08:29 AM (#2975797) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Jim Carroll Earliest collection I think is Wright's 'Political Songs of England' from the Reign of John to Edward II, in Latin and English. Still available at a reasonable price. Jim Carroll |
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30 Aug 10 - 08:59 AM (#2975814) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: GUEST,Bob Coltman A long set of links to 16th century ballads: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ |
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30 Aug 10 - 09:05 AM (#2975818) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: GUEST,Bob Coltman ... And a checklist of songs from the 13th-15th centuries that will at least give you titles to search: http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/m.e.lyrics.html Also, I don't know the date of origin of the following, but here are some medieval and renaissance song titles from a page that includes texts to all of them, plus music where known. Source: http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/mltexts.htm Fowles in the Frith Alisoun My Lief Is Faren in Londe Western Wind I Have a Yong Suster The Cuckoo Song Adam Lay Ybounden I Sing of a Maiden The Corpus Christi Carol The Agincourt Carol Bryd one Brere Man Mai Longe Liues Wene Lenten ys Come When the Nyhtegale Singes Blow, Northern Wind Mery It Is Man in the Moon Nowell, Nowell, Nowell Nowell Sing We Nowell: Out of Your Sleep Alleluia. Now well may we mirthës make Good Day, My Lord Sire Christmas Of A Rose Sing We Ave Domina Alma Redemptoris Mater As I Lay Upon a Night What Tidings Bringest Thou? Sing We To This Merry Company Sing we Yule Man, Assay I Pray You All God Speed the Plow! Women [warning: bawdy] More Selected Medieval Lyrics |
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30 Aug 10 - 01:13 PM (#2975994) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Paul Burke Hi wulfnoth: what sort of song do you want? Religious (lots of those, and mostly tedious), drinking (Bring Us In Good Ale - see DT- is 15th century), love songs, bawdy songs...? Mediaeval English Lyrics by R T Davies seems readily available (no tunes though). |
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30 Aug 10 - 05:14 PM (#2976206) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Gurney The early song that everyone knows is Greensleeves, reputed to be written by King Henry VIII, who died in 1547. |
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30 Aug 10 - 06:51 PM (#2976285) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Very early songs From: Jack Campin It wasn't published until long after he was dead and there's no evidence he ever heard it, let alone wrote it. (There have been threads on this before). Is Wulfnoth only interested in songs in English, or from Britain? There are lots from elsewhere. |