D'ye hear the News? Selections from the 1689 London Popery Collections

D'ye hear the News? Selections from the 1689 London Popery Collections

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Of the many sounds one might have encountered in London during the late seventeenth century, one undoubtedly would have been singing. The decade bounded by the Exclusion Crisis and the Glorious Revolution is noted for the political nature of many of its broadside ballads, and into this milieu, somet…

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    Musical interlude, reprise: “Ruggiero”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 1:18


    Arthur Omura, hurdy-gurdy; Adam Knight Gilbert, bagpipe Tune: “Ruggiero” Anonymous

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    The FAREWELL. (Tune: “The Fourtyfifth Song.” [I Live Not Where I Love])

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 1:35


    Bianca Hall, soprano; Karina Kallas, soprano; Kristin Chaudhary, soprano; Stacey Helley, mezzo-soprano; William Rowley, tenor; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Mikael Sebag, baritone; Arthur Omura, hurdy-gurdy The FAREWELL . First Popery Collection, pp. 20-21 Tune: “The Fourtyfifth Song,” also known by its refrain, “I live not where I love” Cantus, Songs and Fancies, John Forbes, 1662.

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    A Short LETANY, To the Tune of Cook-Laurel. (Tune: “Cook Lawrel”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 3:10


    Stacey Helley, mezzo-soprano; Arthur Omura, harpsichord; Jason Yoshida, theorbo A Short LETANY. To the Tune of Cook-Laurel. Fourth Popery Collection, p. 25 Tune: “Cook Lawrel.” 180 Loyal Songs, Nathaniel Thompson, 1685, p. 103.

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    BALLAD. To the Tune of Couragio. (Tune: “Rogero”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 3:48


    Bianca Hall, soprano; Karina Kallas, soprano; Arthur Omura, virginal; Jason Yoshida, guitar BALLAD. To the Tune of Couragio. First Popery Collection, pp. 12-13 Tune: “Rogero” Cambridge University MS Dd.4.23, fol. 23v, cited in Claude M. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and its Music, Rutgers: 1966, p. 612.

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    Musical interlude: “Ruggiero”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:50


    Jason Yoshida, lute Tune: “Ruggiero” Margaret Board Lute Book ca. 1620-30 (Spencer 1976, facsimile reproduced by Boethius Press, Leeds, England), and Jason Yoshida, 2011

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    Musical interlude: “Greensleeves to a Ground”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 4:15


    Rotem Gilbert, recorder; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder; Jason Yoshida, lute Tune: “Greensleeves to a Ground” The Division Flute 1706, and Adam Knight Gilbert, 2011.

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    A New LITANY in the Year 1684. (Tune: “Cavalilly-man.”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:14


    Karina Kallas, soprano A New LITANY in the Year 1684. Third Popery Collection, p. 30 Tune: “Cavalilly-man.” 180 Loyal Songs, Nathaniel Thompson, 1685, p. 200.

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    A LETANY for the Fifth of November, 1684. (Tune: “Green-Sleeves and Pudding-Pies”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:07


    William Rowley, tenor; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder; Arthur Omura, harpsichord; Jason Yoshida, lute A LETANY for the Fifth of November, 1684. Fourth Popery Collection, p. 24 Tune: “Green-Sleeves and Pudding-Pies.” The Dancing-Master, 7th edition, John Playford, 1686, p. 186. Ground bass: “Romanesca,” traditional.

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    Father PETRE’s Policy DISCOVERED : OR, THE Prince of WALES Prov’d a Popish Perkin. (Tune: “Green-Sleeves and Pudding-Pie

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:37


    William Rowley, tenor; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Arthur Omura, harpsichord; Jason Yoshida, lute; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder Father PETRE’S Policy DISCOVERED : OR, THE Prince of WALES Prov’d a Popish Perkin. Second Popery Collection, p. 29 Tune: “Green-Sleeves and Pudding-Pies” The Dancing-Master, 7th edition, John Playford, 1686, p. 186. Ground bass: “Romanesca,” traditional.

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    A Sale of old STATE Household-stuff … (Tune: “Old Simon the King”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 7:37


    Stacey Helley, mezzo-soprano; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder; Arthur Omura, harpsichord A Sale of old STATE Houshold-stuff … Third Popery Collection, p. 26-27 “Old Simon the King” Henry Purcell, ed. The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid, Henry Playford, 1689.

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    The PAPISTS EXALTATION, On his Highness the PRINCE of ORANGE his Arrival in London. (Tune: “Hey Boys up go we”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 3:09


    William Rowley, tenor; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder; Arthur Omura, virginal; Jason Yoshida, guitar The PAPISTS EXALTATION, On his Highness the PRINCE of ORANGE his Arrival in London. First Popery Collection, p. 19 Tune: “Hey Boys up go we.” 180 Loyal Songs, Nathaniel Thompson, 1685, p. 221; ground bass, Jeanne McDougall, 2009.

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    A New Song upon the Hogen, Mogens. (Tune: “A new Irish Tune” [Lilliburlero])

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 4:47


    Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Adam Knight Gilbert, tenor; Arthur Omura, harpsichord; Jason Yoshida, theorbo; Andrew McIntosh, violin A New Song upon the Hogen, Mogens. First Popery Collection, p. iii Tune: “A new Irish Tune,” also known by its refrain “Lilliburlero” Henry Purcell, ed. The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid, Henry Playford, 1689.

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    Musical interlude: “A new Irish Tune” (Lilliburlero)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 3:02


    Arthur Omura, harpsichord Tune: “A new Irish Tune,” also known by its refrain “Lilliburlero” Henry Purcell, ed. The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid, Henry Playford, 1689.

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    A New SONG. (Tune: “A new Irish Tune” [Lilliburlero])

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 1:23


    Bianca Hall, soprano; Karina Kallas, soprano; Kristin Chaudhary, soprano; Stacey Helley, mezzo-soprano; William Rowley, tenor; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Mikael Sebag, baritone; Arthur Omura, hurdy-gurdy A New SONG First Popery Collection, p. 9 Tune: “A new Irish Tune,” also known by its refrain, “Lilliburlero” Henry Purcell, ed. The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid, Henry Playford, 1689.

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    A New Song of an Orange./The ORANGE. (Tune: “From twelve years old I oft have” [Of a Pudding])

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 4:16


    Stacey Helley, mezzo-soprano; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Arthur Omura, harpsichord; Jason Yoshida, guitar; Andrew McIntosh, violin A New Song of an Orange./The ORANGE. First Popery Collection, pp. 10-11 Tune: “From twelve years old I oft have,” also known by its refrain, “Of a Pudding” Thomas D’Urfey, ed. Pills to Purge Melancholy III, 1702, p. 72.

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    A New SONG. (Tune: “Would you be a Man in fashion?”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:51


    Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder; Arthur Omura, virginal; Jason Yoshida, lute A New SONG. First Popery Collection, p. 20 Tune: “Would you be a Man in fashion?” (Capt.) Simon Pack, ed. Choice Ayres and Songs … The Fifth Book, John Playford, 1684, pp. 14-15.

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    MONMOUTH’s Remembrance. To the Tune of A Begging we will go. (Tune: “There was a Jovial Begger”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:49


    Bianca Hall, soprano; Karina Kallas, soprano; Kristin Chaudhary, soprano; Stacey Helley, mezzo-soprano; William Rowley, tenor; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Mikael Sebag, baritone; Arthur Omura, hurdy-gurdy MONMOUTH’s Remembrance. Second Popery Collection, pp. 20-21 Tune: “There was a Jovial Begger,” also known by its refrain, “a begging we will go” Choice Ayres and Songs … The Fifth Book, John Playford, 1684, p. 26.

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    The CITY-BALLAD. 168- (Tune: “Downe in a bottome &c.”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 2:59


    Mikael Sebag, baritone; William Rowley, tenor; Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Jason Yoshida, theorbo; Adam Knight Gilbert, percussion Fourth Popery Collection, pp. 34-35 Tune: “Downe in a bottome &c.” Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poet. 152, fol. 9, cited in Claude M. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and its Music, Rutgers: 1966, p. 192; ground bass, Jeanne McDougall, 2009.

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    A New SONG on the Calling of a Free Parliament, Jan. 15. 1688/9. (Tune: “A New Scotch Tune”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 3:52


    Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Mikael Sebag, baritone; William Rowley, tenor; Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder; Mishkar Nuñez Mejia, violin; Arthur Omura, virginal; Jason Yoshida, guitar A New SONG on the Calling of a Free Parliament, Jan. 15. 1688/9. First Popery Collection, pp. 19-20 Tune: “A New Scotch Tune” Henry Purcell, ed., The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid, Henry Playford, 1689.

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    Musical interlude: "A New Scotch Tune"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 1:32


    Arthur Omura, harpsichord Tune: “A New Scotch Tune” Henry Purcell, ed., The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid, Henry Playford, 1689.

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    Musical Interlude: "Packington's Pound"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 4:27


    Arthur Omura, virginal Tune: “Packington’s Pound” J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire. The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, volume II. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963, Number: CLXXVIII, anon., p. 234. Quote by Claude M. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and its Music, Rutgers: 1966, p. 564.

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    On the Q---’s Conception. (Tune: “Packington’s Pound”)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 3:37


    Bianca Hall, soprano; Arthur Omura,virginal; Jason Yoshida, lute; Mishkar Nuñez Mejia, violin On the Q---n’s Conception. First Popery Collection, pp. 8-9 Tune: “Packington’s Pound.” 180 Loyal Songs, Nathaniel Thompson, 1685, p. 40.

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