A little music

Each of the following movie icons signifies a cross-platform .aiff file, the size of which is given (in brackets). Each title signifies a link to the song's text, where there is another opportunity to hear the song or download the file. To hear the song, just click on the icon.

The words of all the songs.

Fortune, laisse moy (3.2 MB) of Pierre Attaingnant, from Quarante et deux chansons musicales, Paris, 1529.

Go Crystal Tears (1.1 MB), first verse, of John Dowland, from The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of fowre partes wih Tableture for the Lute, London, 1597.

Now, o now, I needs must part (2.7 MB) of John Dowland, from The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of fowre partes wih Tableture for the Lute, London, 1597.

Ostinato vo' seguire (960 KB) of Bartolomeo Tromboncino, c. 1528.

There is a Garden in her face (1.7 MB) of Thomas Campion, from The Third and Fovrth Booke of Ayres: Composed by Thomas Campian. So as they may be expressed by one Voyce, with a Violl, Lute, or Opharion, London, 1618.

Fortune, laisse moy, alternative arrangement* (1.1 MB) of the first verse, of Pierre Attaingnant, from Quarante et deux chansons musicales, Paris, 1529.

Performed by Christopher Davey, tenor; Shirley Davey, soprano; John Allen, lute and *tenor viol.

The words of all the songs.

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Unprepared, domestic performances, recorded on 4th November 1989 in Headingley, Leeds, U.K., onto TDK MA-X 90 metal audio tape using a Sony WM-D6C Walkman Professional audio tape cassette recorder, Dolby B noise reduction and a single Sony ECM-909 stereo microphone. Subsequent digital transfer and reduction to mono, with heavy heart, using SoundMate of MWI Multimedia Utilities and, alas, compression to 11 kHz with ConvertMachine, both on an Apple Macintosh Performa 5200, June 1996.