LADY NEVELL'S MUSIC-BOOK.
The following contents of the Lady Nevell's music-book (1591) may be interesting to many of your readers:
"1. My Ladye Nevell's Grownde.
02. Que passe, for my Ladye Nevell.
03. The March before the Battell.
04. The Battell.
00. The March of Footemen.
00. The March of Horsemen.
00. The Trumpetts.
00. The Irishe Marche.
00. The Bagpipe and Drone.
00. The Flute and Dromme.
00. The Marche to Fight.
00. Tantara.
00. The Battells be ioyned.
00. The Retreat.
05. The Galliarde for the Victorie.
06. The Barley Breake.
07. The Galliarde Gygg.
08. The Hunt's upp.
09. Ut re mi fa sol la.
10. The first Pauian.
11. The Galliard to the same.
12. The seconde Pauian.
13. The Galliarde to the same.
14. The third Pauian.
15. The Galliarde to the same.
16. The fourth Pauian.
17. The Galliarde to the same.
18. The fifte Pauian.
19. The Galliarde to the same.
20. The sixte Pauian.
21. The Galliarde to the same.
22. The seventh Pauian.
23. The eighte Pauian.
The passinge mesurs is,
24. The nynthe Pauian.
25. The Galliarde to the same.
26. The Voluntarie Lesson.
27. Will you walk the Woods soe wylde.
28. The Mayden's Song.
29. A Lesson of Voluntarie.
30. The second Grownde.
31. Have wt you to Walsingame.
32. All in a Garden greene.
33. The lo. Willobie's welcome home.
34. The Carman's Whistle.
35. Hughe Ashton's Grownde.
36. A Fancie, for my Ladye Nevell.
37. Sellinger's Rownde.
38. Munser's Almaine.
39. The tenth Pauian, Mr. W. Peter.
40. The Galliarde to the same.
41. A Fancie.
42. A Voluntarie.
Finis.
Ffinished and ended the Leventh of September, in the yeare of our Lorde God 1591, and in the 33 yeare of the raigne of our sofferaine ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, &c., by me, Jo. Baldwine of Windsore.
Laudes Deo."
The songs have no words to them. Most of the airs are signed "Mr. William Birde."
A modern MS. note in the book states that the book is "Lady Nevell's Music-book," and that she seems "to have been the scholar of Birde, who professedly composed several of the pieces for her ladyship's use;" and that sixteen of the forty-two pieces are "in the Virginal Book of Queen Elizabeth," and that "Jo. Baldwine was a singing-man at Windsor." The music is written on four-staved paper of six lines, in large bold characters, with great neatness. The notes are lozenge-shape. Can any of your correspondents furnish rules for transposing these six-line staves into the five-line staves of modern notations?
L. B. L.