Invitation to the Partsong - Book 8

Description

A selection for three to eleven voices Edited John Morehen

Rounds and Canons from Thomas Ravenscroft's Collections

Sacred and secular rounds and canons in Latin and in English from the collections of the 17th-century editor and theorist Thomas Ravenscroft, on a variety of subjects such as drinking, hunting and street cries: thirty-five pieces for three to eleven voices.

CONTENTS:

For Three Voices

• Follow me quickly
• Hey ho! To the greenwood now let us go
• I am a-thirst, what should I say?
• I pray you, good mother
• New oysters
• Now God be with old Simeon
• Now kiss the cup, cousin, with courtesy
• O praise the Lord, ye that fear Him
• Pietas omnium virtutum
• The merry nightingale
• Well fare the nightingale

For Four Voices

• Ascendit Christus in coelum
• Blow thy horn, thou jolly hunter
• Descendit Christus de coelo
• Fa, mi, fa, re, la, mi
• Farewell, mine own sweet heart
• Hey, down a down
• Miserere mei Deus
• To Portsmouth it is a gallant town

For Five Voices

• Keep well your ray, my lads
• Sing you now after me
• Universa transeunt
• Verbum Domini manet in aeternum
• Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi
• White wine and sugar is good drink for me

For Six Voices

• Benedic, Domine, nobis his donis tuis
• Domine Fili Dei vivi miserere nostri
• Joy in the gates of Jerusalem
• Laudate nomen Domini (I)
• Now thanked be the great god Pan

For Seven Voices

• Laudate nomen Domini (II)

For Eight Voices

• Let's have a peal for John Cook's soul

For Nine Voices

• Delicta quis intelligit?
• Hey ho, what shall I say?

For Ten or Eleven Voices

• Sing we now merrily