Dorian Recordings
DOR-90314
EARLY MUSIC OF SCOTLAND
THE BALTIMORE CONSORT
Today's rage for "Celtic" music echoes the situation in 17th and early 18th century England when "Scotch tunes" became popular in the theaters and pubs, as well as in the salons of aristocracy and royalty. The lure of Scottish melody with its gapped scales and "scotch snaps" (short-long rhythms) motivated the English to set new words to Scottish tunes or to write new tunes in imitation of Scottish style. The popularity of "Scotch" style reached its zenith after the Restoration, culminating in the publications of the Playfords and Thomas D'Urfey, the latter of whom is represented here by the two selections from Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy of 1719: The Scotch Cuckold and Catherine Logy.
Our program explores the secular music of Scotland leading up to the English craze, devoting the most attention to native airs collected and noted down by early 17th-century collectors such as John Skene of Hallyards and Robert Gordon of Straloch, but also sampling a wide variety of courtly songs and dances from the 16th and 17th centuries, and, due to the belatedness of the written record, probably earlier. …
-Mary Anne Ballard
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[1.] The gowans are gay John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies 1662 3:31 [2.] Adew Dundee Skene Mandora MS c.1630-33 1:36 [3.] Remember me my deir Robert Edwards' Commonplace Book 1630-65 4:16 [4.] Ane ground Duncan Burnett's Music Book 1610 3:27 [5.] A New Scotch Song of Catherine Logy Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy 1719 2:44 [6.] The Scotch cuckold Pills to Purge Melancholy 3:03 [7.] Green grows the rashes Balcarres Lute Book 1692-94 1:42 [8.] Alace I lie alone Skene Mandora MS 2:38 [9.] Blew breiks Skene Mandora MS 1:48 [10.] Adeu O desie of delyt Andro Blackhall (1535-1609), Thomas Wode's Partbooks 2:50 [11.] Generall Leslys goodnight Wemyss Lute Book c.1645 2:03 [12.] Lesleis lilt Skene Mandora MS 1:34 [13.] Peggy is over ye sie wi' a souldier Skene Mandora MS 0:53 [14.] I mett her in the medowe Skene Mandora MS 1:29 [15.] The old man Straloch Lute Book c.1627-29 0:31 [16.] Richt soir opprest The Art of Music Collecit … c.1580 5:44 [17.] Suit smiling Katie loves me Panmure MS c.1680 1:28 [18.] Whip my toudie Straloch Lute Book 1:44 [19.] Remember me at evening Skene Mandora MS 1:55 [20.] A Scot's tune Skene Mandora MS 2:02 [21.] Woe worth the tyme Thomas Wode's Partbooks 1562-1590 2:56 [22.] What mightie motion Thomas Wode's Partbooks 7:05 [23.] Branles d'escosse Estienne du Tertre, VIIme livre de danceries 1557 3:35 Total Program Length: 61:52 |
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