Cavalier song

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Cavalier song is the equivalent to the Elizabethan English lute song in the Jacobean and Carolinian era. The music of the Cavalier Song period is not as well known as the lute song period for several reasons. The modern sources for the songs such as Musica Britannica are not practical for playing without preparation and the lute or keyboard player needs to be able to perform from unfigured bass. Musicologists have somewhat neglected this period also because when the songs are played through on the piano they lack substance, and their true worth only emerges through a communicative performance.

However some of the best music is very fine. Some songs such as Henry Lawes's The Lark, William's Gather ye Rosebuds and Nicholas Laniers's The Marigold. The Marigold have found their way into singing anthologies.

Much of this repertoire was recorded and performed by the Consort of Musicke under Antony Rooley.

The relevent composers are: Thomas Brewer, Nicholas Lanier, Henry Lawes and William Lawes.

Cavalier song

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