Dorian Recordings

DOR-90235

TUNES FROM THE ATTIC

The Baltimore Consort
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Tunes from the Attic returns to the central repertory of the Baltimore Consort: popular and courtly music from Elizabethan England and Renaissance Scotland, with ballads, airs, and country dances which grew from those traditions over the following centuries. All these excellent tunes stimulate our collective musical imagination and continue to inhabit our brains long after we have packed up our instruments and gone home. Like our predecessors four hundred years ago, we are inspired to make "art" of these infectious melodies.
Every family has an attic - a place to re-discover items no longer in use but treasured nonetheless. - Mary Anne Ballard

[ 1] Joyne Hands - Thomas Morley (1599)

[ 2] You Lasses and Lads - Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719)

[ 3] Jenny, My Blithest Maid - Samuel Akeroyde (fl. 1684 - 1706)

[ 4] Johnny Cock thy Beaver - The Division Violin (1684)

[ 5] Paven - Thomas Wode's Partbooks (1562-c. 1592)
Galliard - The Dublin Virginal MS - (c.1570)

[ 6] The Mermaid's Song - traditional
[ 7] The Old Maid of the Mill Dust - traditional

[ 8] The Northern Lasse's Lamentation - tune, Playford's Dancing Master (1651)

[ 9] Well Hall - Playford's Dancing Master (1679)

[10] The Jewes Dawnce - Richard Nicholson (d.1639)

[11] Come Love, Let's Walk - Thomas Wode's Partbooks (1562 - c.1592)

[12] Green Garters - John Johnson (c.1540 - 1595)

[13] The Irish Ho-Hoane - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book MS (1609-19)
[14] The Irishe Dumpe - Fitzwilliam Virginal Book MS (1609-19)

[15] Oh! How Happy's He - tune, Playford's Dancing Master (1695)

[16] Callino - Ballet Lute Book (c.1595)

[17] Joy to the Person of My Love - William Stirling's Cantus Partbook (1639)

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