Programme
Woodycock from Cambridge MS Dd.5.20, late 16th century
Amarilli mia Bella – after Caccini from British Library, Egerton 2971, early 17th century
Robin is to the Greenwood Gone from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 408/1 William Ballet’s Lute Book, c1610
Miserere my maker from British Library, Add ms 15117, c1614-16
Tobias Hume (1579? – 1645) from The First part of Ayres, 1605:
Captaine Humes Galliard
What Greater Grief
The Earle of Pembrooke his Galliard
Faine would I change that note
John Jenkins (1592–1678) from Oxford Bodleian Mus. 184 c.8:
Division in G minor
Division in G Major
Interval
Mathijs de Roo (b. 1977)
Tombeau pour Monsieur Rihm (2024)
Marin Marais (1656–1728) from Basse-continuës des pieces a une et a deux violes, 1689
Diversitez sur un sujet de Basse donné par un Étranger Marin Marais
William Corkine from Ayres, to Sing and Play (1610) and Second book of Ayres (1612)
Come live with me and be my love
The Punckes delight
Whoope doe me no harme good man
The art of variation in music is something which has undoubtedly existed as long as music itself. This programme takes a detailed look at the different types of variation music involving the viol (or viola da gamba) in 17th-century England. Divisions on a ground, variations on Ballad Melodies, and songs with ornamented vocal lines.
