Popular Music of the Renaissance
by A Reasonable Facsimile
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This CD comprises the earlier albums About
as Close as You Can Get and The Merry
Pranks of Robin Goodfellow. You'll find street and
popular music of the Renaissance (and a little later) and Elizabethan
popular music for lads and lasses.
Samples
MP3 Track Title
Play Cuckolds
All a Row
Play Parsons
Farewell / Goddesses / Nonesuch / Once I Loved a Maiden Fair
Play When
Joan's Ale Was New (VOCAL)
Play Over
the Mountains (VOCAL)
Play Recercada
Segunda
Play Hey Downe
Downe / A Mery Ballet of the Hathorne Tre / Dargason (VOCAL)
Play Of a Number
of Rats Mistaken For Devils in a Man's Slops / Grimstock / Old Mole
Play La
Traditora / There's Nothing to be Had Without Money (VOCAL)
Play My
Lord of Oxenfords Maske
Play See, Mine
Own Sweet Jewel / Joy Doth So Arise
Play If All
The World Were Paper / Step Stately (VOCAL)
Play A La
Mode France / Argeers / A Soldier's Life / The Hobby Horse Dance
Play Rooster
/ The Contrary Wife / All In a Garden Green / Sheep of God / Rufty
Tufty / A Merry Riddle / The Health
Play Sir
Eglamore (VOCAL)
Play The Broom
/ Sellinger's Round / Hyde Park
Play Room For
Company (VOCAL)
Play Branles:
Horse / Peas / Official
Play Three
Merry Men / Strawberry Leaves (VOCAL)
Play Tomorrow
The Fox Will Come to Town (VOCAL)
Play Seldom
Cleanly (VOCAL)
Play My Little
Sweet Darling (VOCAL)
Play Pavan
of the Battle
Play Buffons
/ Morris Dance
Play Pepper's
Black / Wilson's Wild
Play Excerpts
from The Boke of Nurture / Cheerily and Merrily
Play Prince
Rupert's March / Millison's Jig
Play Tickle
My Toe
Play Three
Blind Mice (VOCAL)
Play Gathering
Peascods
Play The
Mad, Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow (VOCAL)
Anne Burns - Voice, cittern, recorder, 4-course
guitar, 6-hole pipe, treble shawm, fife, 3-hole pipe, drum
Rob Burns - 6-hole pipe, voice, dulcimer, tambourine,
bones, flute, treble shawm, 3-hole pipe, spoons, 4-course guitar,
fife
Children's Chorus - Vocals
All arrangements by A Reasonable Facsimile
Recordings Copyright 1987 and 1989 by A Reasonable Facsimile
CD Copyright 1993 Second from the Bottom Records
Cover photograph by W. Patrick Hinely: Work/Play