Chapter Six

Track 13: Recording of “Greensleeves” as notated by Simpson and sung to the earliest extant text, printed in Richard Jones, Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584), by Clement Robinson and Divers Others, ed. Hyder E. Rollins (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924); sung in G minor, as notated by Simpson, by Erik Bell.

      13-greensleeves-edjones-greensleeves-minor - Greensleeves

Track 14: Recording of “The Re-Resurrection of the Rump,” 1659, Bridgewater Collection, Huntington 133299, EBBA 32128; to the shortened and Dorian version of the Greensleeves melody, titled here after the refrain of the ballad, “Which Nobody can Deny”; sung by Erik Bell.

      14-rump-32128-nobodycandeny-dorian - EBBA 32128

Track 15: MIDI of transcription of recording of the first stanza of “The Re-Resurrection of the Rump.”

      15-rump-32128-v1-nobodycandeny-midi - Re-Resurrection MIDI

Track 16: Recording of “The City of London’s New Letany,” 1659, Bridgewater Collection, Huntington 133297, EBBA 32126; to the shortened and Dorian version of the Greensleeves melody, titled here “To the Tune of the Blacksmith”; sung by Cristina Lord.

      16-Letany_32126-blacksmith-dorian - EBBA 32126

Track 17: Recording of the earliest extant Palmus and Sheldra ballad (c. 1630),” Pepys 1. 350-351, EBBA 20163, EBBA recording: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/20163/recording; sung to the tune of “Shackley Hay,” by James Revell Carr.

      17-palmus-20163-shackleyhay-major - EBBA 20163

Track 18:  Recording of the ballad by Charles Sackville, later 6th Earl of Dorset, registered in December 1664 as “The Noble seamans complaint to the Ladies at Land, to ye tune of Shackley Hay”; sung to later extant lyrics by Erik Bell.

      18-sackville-nobleseamans-shackleyhay-major - Noble seams complaint

Track 19: MIDI of transcription of recording of the second stanza of the Sackville ballad.

      19-sackville-nobleseamans-st2--shackleyhay-major - Sackville MIDI

Track 20: “An Heroical Song On the Worthy and Valiant Exploits of our Noble Lord General George Duke of Albermarle . . . Made in August, 1666,” to the tune of “St. George”: notation on ballad sheet, including choral harmony; first stanza sung, without choral harmony by Caroline Bennet.

      20-albemarle-st.1-withoutchorus-stGeorge-major - Heroical Song

Track 21: First stanza of Albermale ballad with choral harmony created by electronically laying his own voice under his own voice in the recording, by Erik Bell.

      21-albemarle-st.1-withchorus-stGeorge-major - Albermale Choral Harmony

Track 22: Entire Albermale ballad sung to St. George tune, without choral harmony by Erik Bell.

      22-albemarle-stgeorge-entiresong-withoutchorus-major - Albermale, No Choral Harmony

Track 23: MIDI of transcription of recording of the first stanza of Albermale ballad.

      23-albemarle-st1-stgeorge-midi - Albermale MIDI

Track 24: Saint Georges commendation to all Souldiers: or, S. Georges Alarum to all that professe Martiall / discipline, with a memoriall of the Worthies, who haue been borne so high on the winges of Fame / for their braue aduentures, as they cannot be buried in the pit of obliuion,” 1612, Pepys 1.87, EBBA 20041.

      24-stgeorge-20041-stgeorge-major - EBBA 20041

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