Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sung
(The lute book)
William Ballet (vers 1600 )
(The lute book)
William Ballet (vers 1600 )
Sweet was the song the Virgin sung,
When she, when she to Bethlem Juda came,
And was deliver'd of a Son,
That blessed Jesus hath to name.
Lulla, lulla, lula, lullaby,
Lula, lula, lula, lullaby, sweet Babe, sung she,
My Son, and eke a Saviour born,
Who hast vouchsafed from on high
To visit us that were forlorn;
Lalula, lalula, lalulaby, sweet babe, sang she,
And rockt Him sweetly on her knee.
From William Ballet's Lute Book in Library of Trin. Coll., Dublin about A.D. 1600. Harmonized by Dr. Charles Wood
Notes and Source: George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, 1901, Revised and Expanded Edition), Carol #32
Sheet Music from George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, 1902, Revised and Expanded Edition 1929), Carol #32
This highly interesting manuscript, which is in the library of Trinity College, Dublin (D. I. 21), contains a large number of the popular tunes of the sixteenth century. "Fortune my foe," "Peg a Ramsey," "Bonny sweet Robin," "Calleno," "Lightlie love Ladies," "Green Sleeves," "Weladay," (all mentioned by Shakspeare), besides "The Witches Dawnce," "The hunt is up," "The Shaking of the Shetes," "The Quadran Pavan," "a Hornpipe," "Robin Reddocke," "Barrow Foster's Dreame," "Downland's Lachrimæ," "Lusty Gallant," "The Blacksmith," "Rogero," "Turkeyloney," "Staynes Morris," "Sellenger's Rownde," "All flowers in brome," "Ballo," "Wigmore's Galliard," "Robin Hood is to the greenwood gone," &c., &., are to be found in it. "Queen Maries Dump" (in whose reign it was probably commenced) stands first in the book.
Plus d'information : The Music of the Sixteenth Century Broadside Ballad
Notes and Source: George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, 1901, Revised and Expanded Edition), Carol #32
Sheet Music from George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, 1902, Revised and Expanded Edition 1929), Carol #32
This highly interesting manuscript, which is in the library of Trinity College, Dublin (D. I. 21), contains a large number of the popular tunes of the sixteenth century. "Fortune my foe," "Peg a Ramsey," "Bonny sweet Robin," "Calleno," "Lightlie love Ladies," "Green Sleeves," "Weladay," (all mentioned by Shakspeare), besides "The Witches Dawnce," "The hunt is up," "The Shaking of the Shetes," "The Quadran Pavan," "a Hornpipe," "Robin Reddocke," "Barrow Foster's Dreame," "Downland's Lachrimæ," "Lusty Gallant," "The Blacksmith," "Rogero," "Turkeyloney," "Staynes Morris," "Sellenger's Rownde," "All flowers in brome," "Ballo," "Wigmore's Galliard," "Robin Hood is to the greenwood gone," &c., &., are to be found in it. "Queen Maries Dump" (in whose reign it was probably commenced) stands first in the book.
Plus d'information : The Music of the Sixteenth Century Broadside Ballad
