Morley's Canzonets for Two Voyces

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These are some of the most popular duets from the Renaissance era. If you like to sing or play with other people, these are a good place to start exploring the world of Renaissance Polyphony. Morley was famous not only as a composer and performer, but also as a music teacher. He wrote the Music for Dummies of his day. (A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Musicke)

For recorder players, almost all of them fit well on C instruments, in most cases two equal instruments (either sopranos or tenors); or in a few cases a soprano and a lower instrument, either Alto or Tenor.

They are available in 2 spiral-bound partbooks. Both music and words have been set in large, easy-to-read type.

Here's a sample page:

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Or, you can download the pdf files (3155792 bytes),
the ABC files (32724 bytes),
the MIDI files (33066 bytes),
or the TeX, eps, and lilypond sources (1057353 bytes).

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Here's the Preface, where I explain why I'm interested in doing this.

Here's the Foreward which John Tyson was kind enough to write for it.

Here are the editorial notes that explain what I did.

And here's what I think is the plot.

Last modified: 2006-10-25 11:19, 2007
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