Research Catalog

Title

Old English popular music / by William Chappell, a new edition with a preface and notes, and the earlier examples entirely revised by H. Ellis Wooldridge.

Author

Chappell, W. (William), 1809-1888.

Publication

London : Chappell & Co. ; New York : Novello, Ewer & Co., 1893.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wooldridge, H. Ellis (Harry Ellis), 1845-1917.

Description

1 score (2 volumes) : facsimile; 27 cm

Alternative Title

Popular music of the olden time.

Subject

• Ballads, English
• Folk songs, English
• Dance music > England
• Ballades anglaises
• Chansons folkloriques anglaises
• Danse, Musique de > Angleterre
• Ballads, English
• Dance music
• Folk songs, English
• England

Genre/Form

• Folk songs
• Dance music
• Ballads
• Dance music.
• Folk songs.
• Ballads.
• Musique de danse.
• Chansons folkloriques.
• Ballades (Chansons)

Note

• First published 1838-40 as "A collection of national English airs" which was afterwards expanded into his "Popular music of the olden time" (1859, 2 vols.) Part of the latter edition was published under title "The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time."

Contents

• v. 1. SONGS AND BALLADS : THE EARLIER POPULAR MUSIC. Sumer is icumen in ; The song of Agincourt ; Nowell, nowell ; Western wind i/ii ; Cull to me the rushes green ; Blow thy horn, hunter ; Pastime with good company ; Whereto should I express ; By a bank as I lay ; I have been a foster ; I loathe that I did love ; Now, Robin, lend to me thy bow -- THE EARLIER BALLADS. Walsingham ; My little pretty one ; How can the tree ; Sick, sick ; There were three ravens ; Fortune ; All in a garden green ; Light o' love ; Calino casturame, or Colleen Oge Astore ; The hunt is up ; John Dory ; Whoop, do me no harm, good man ; Heart's ease ; What if a day ; Loth to depart ; O mistress mine ; Willow willow ; O death, rock me asleep ; It was a lover and his lass ; With my flock as walked I (The faithful brothers) ; Walking in a country town ; The woods so wild ; Come o'er the bourne, Bessy ; Come live with me, and be my love ; The noble shire ; Row well, ye mariners ; Since first I saw your face ; Well-a-day ; Essex's last good-night ; We be soldiers three ; We be three poor mariners ; Yonder comes a courteous knight ; Who liveth so merry ; I have house and land in Kent ; Martin said to his man ; Of all the birds ; The wedding of the frog and mouse ; The cramp ; Remember, o thou man ; Go from my window ; The shepherd's joy, or Bara Fostus dream ; Up, tails all -- Daphne ; Malt's come down ; Lord Willoughby ; My robin is to the greenwood gone; or, Bonny sweet robin ; The leaves be green, or browning ; In sad and ashy weeds ; Daphne and Corydon (Tell me, Daphne) ; Willy and Cuddy ; Hanskin, or jog on, or Eighty-eight ; Dulcina ; Robin Goodfellow ; Rosamond (Confesse, or The Court Lady) ; Shepherd, saw thou not, or Crimson velvet ; Come, shepherds, deck your heads ; The fairest nymph the valleys ; When Phœbus addrest ; Tom a Bedlam ; Gray's Inn masque, or Mad Tom, or New mad Tom of Bedlam ; Troy town ; When as the Greeks did enterprise ; The Spanish gipsy ; Newcastle ; Love will find out the way ; I'll never love thee more ; Now the spring is come ; Gather ye rosebuds ; Three merry men ; The hunter in his career, or Basse's career ; I live not where I love ; Once I loved a maiden fair ; Shall I wasting in despair ; Hey, then up go we ; Vive le Roy ; When the King enjoys his own again --
• v. 1 (con't) DANCE TUNES : Dance tune circ. 1260 -- EARLIER SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DANCE MUSIC. A hornepype ; The crooke ; Poor man's dump ; My lay Carey's Dumpe -- LATER SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DANCE MUSIC. Trenchmore i/ii ; The shaking of the sheets ; Dargison ; Rogero ; La volta ; Pretty Nancy ; Lusty gallant ; Green sleeves ; Staines Morris ; Peg-a Ramsey ; Canst thou not hit it ; Wigmore's Galliard ; The Spanish pavan ; The carman's whistle ; The Gipsie's round ; Sellenger's round, or the beginning of the world ; Packington's pound ; John, come kiss me now ; Mall Sims ; Nancy, or Sir Edward Noel's delight or All you that love good fellow ; Watkin's ale ; Paul's wharf ; Wolsey's wild ; Barley break ; Wanton season ; Robin Hood ; The frog galliard ; Quodling's delight ; The chirping of the lark ; Mall Peatley ; The Cobbler's jig -- EARLIER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DANCE TUNES. Old Simon the King ; Paul's steeple, or I am the Duke of Norfolk ; The friar and the man ; Joan Sanderson ; The shepherd's daughter ; Pepper's black ; The merry merry milkmaids ; Millfield ; Fain I would ; Parthenia ; The maid peeped out at the window, or The friar in the well ; The London gentlewoman, or The hemp-dresser ; Stingo, or The oil of barley, or Cold and raw ; Gathering peascods ; Half Hannikin ; Who list to lead a soldier's life ; Under and over ; Cuckolds all a row ; What tho' I am a country lass ; The beggar boy ; The health ; Boatman ; Trip and go ; Tom Tinker ; Have at thy coat old woman, or Stand thy ground old Harry ; Bobbing Joe ; The health ; Hyde Park ; Room for Company ; Prince Rupert's march ; Upon a summer's day ; Lady lie near me ; Lull me beyond thee ; Nonesuch, or À la mode de France ; The glory of the North ; The glory of the west --
• v. 2. THE LATER SONGS, BALLADS, AND DANCE TUNES. The buff coat has no fellow -- Jamaica -- Law lies a-bleeding, or The dominion of the sword -- London is a fine town, or Watton town's end -- The new royal exchange -- London waits -- Amarillis -- I am a poor shepherd undone, or Hey, ho, my honey! -- The blind beggar of Bethnal Green -- Thomas, you cannot -- Here's a health unto his majesty -- Franklin is fled away -- The northern lass -- Bonny Nell -- The lass of Cumberland -- Cavalilly man -- The fit's upon me now -- The delights of the bottle -- In January last -- The clear cavalier -- The fair one let me in -- Young Jemmy -- When busy fame -- Cock Lorrrel -- A begging we will go --I'll tell thee, Dick, where I have been -- Roger of Coverly -- When the stormy winds do blow -- The King's jig, or At Winchester was a wedding -- Oh, how they frisk it, or Leather apron, or Under the greenwood tree -- Lilliburlero -- The King of Poland, or Courtiers, courtiers -- I often for my Jenny strove -- The rant -- Ladies of London -- The Northumberland bagpipes -- Willy was so blithe a lad -- The baffled knight -- Aye, marry, and thank ye too -- Greenwich Park, or Come sweet lass -- The devil's progress -- Bartholomew fair, or The Dutchwoman's jigg -- Tobacco's but an Indian weed -- There was an old woman liv'd under a hill -- Lay the bent to the bonny broom -- Shackley-hay -- The Spanish lady -- I have but a mark a year -- Old Noll's jig (When once Master Love gets into your head) -- Admiral Benbow -- Benbow, the brother tar -- The roast beef of old England -- Three travellers -- Good morrow, Gossip Joan -- Cupid's courtesie, or I am so deep in love -- Joan to the Maypole -- St. George for England -- Come let us prepare -- Here's a health to all honest men -- The happy clown -- Come jolly Bacchus, or Charles of Sweden -- The mouse-trap, or Old hob -- The man of Kent -- Come lasses and lads -- Sally in our alley -- Cease your funning -- An old woman clothed in gray -- The country garden, or The Vicar of Bray -- The budgeon it is a delicate trade -- Sweet Nelly my heart's delight -- As down in the meadows -- The country courtship -- Grim King of the Ghosts -- Fair Rosalind -- Fair Margaret and sweet William -- Phillida flouts me -- The Duke of Berwick's march, or Why, soldiers, why, or How stands the glass around -- On yonder high mountains -- On the cold ground, or I prethee, love, turn to me -- The leather bottle -- Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan -- Come, open the door, sweet Betty -- Cupid's trepan -- The doubting virgin, or Woman's work is never done -- The Oxfordshire tragedy -- To all you ladies now at land -- Sir Guy -- There was an old fellow at Waltham Cross, or Taunton Dean -- The bailiff's daughter -- There lives a lass upon the green -- Three merry men of Kent -- Lovely Nancy -- Old Hewson the cobbler -- The sailor's complaint -- Death and the lady -- Old King Cole -- Down among the dead men -- A-hunting we will go -- Molly's hoop -- O, good ale, thou art my darling -- Come, let us drink about -- Pretty Polly Oliver -- The women all tell me -- Care, thou canker of our joys -- Smiling Polly, or The keel row -- Nancy Dawson, or Miss Dawson's hornpipe -- Brighton Camp, or the Girl I've left behind me -- Heart of oak -- Rule, Britannia -- God save our Lord the King.

LCCN

05019643

OCLC

• ocm31749597
• 31749597
• SCSB-587971

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library