Penny merriments : street songs of 17th-century England
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| Victoria | Available |
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| Subject |
| Ballads, English > England > 17th century. Songs, English > England > 17th century. Bawdy songs > England > 17th century. |
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| Sound recordings. Songs. |
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Physical Description
sound disc
1 audio disc (70:25 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher [Hong Kong] : Naxos, [2005]
- Copyright ℗2005
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc (DDD) Program notes by Lucie Skeaping in English with German translations (12 p. : col. ill.) inserted in container. GMD: compact disc. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The courtiers health, or, The merry boys of the times (2:40) -- The country lass (4:07) -- The crost couple, or, A good misfortune (7:12) -- The countryman's joy (2:44) -- Seldom cleanly (3:38) -- A merry jest of John Thomson and Jakaman his wife whose jealousy was justly the cause of their strife (4:45) -- The seven merry wives of London, or, The gossips complaint (4:01) -- Old England grown new (2:50) -- Good advice to batchelors, how to court and obtain a young lass (3:07) -- Neptune's raging fury, or, The gallan seaman's sufferings (3:13) -- The north country lovers (4:18) -- The lunatick lover (4:08) -- The downfall of dancing (6:14) -- The saint turn'd sinner (3:51) -- An old song on the Spanish Armada, or, Sir Francis Drake (2:07) -- The female captain, or, The counterfit [sic] bridegroom (4:25) -- London mourning in ashes (4:07) -- The famour ratcatcher (2:57) |
| Participant or Performer Note: | The City Waites (Lucie Skeaping, soprano ; Douglas Wootton, tenor ; Richard Wistreich, bass-baritone ; Robin Jeffrey, cittern, lute, baroque guitar ; Michael Brain, curtal, recorder ; Roderick Skeaping, fiddle, bass viol ; Nicholas Perry, bagpipes) |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Recorded 5-6 Sept. 2004 at St. Paul's Church, New Southgate, London. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 7.95 |