How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman

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HOW THE WORLD WAGS
How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman
The City Waites (with Pethick Edwards, reader)

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 20 May 2008

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'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian)

'Splendid, vigorous, animated, hilarious' (Hi Fi News)

'Highly entertaining' (Classical Music)

'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian)

Tracks:

JAMAICA or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's exact relation of all his Travels in Every Nation, his Famous Acts are all Shown Here as in this Story doth appear (Anonymous) [3'15]

GALLIARD (Maurice Webster) [1'50]

WHO LIVETH SO MERRY (Thomas Ravenscroft) [4'57]

THE SAINT TURNED SINNER or The Dissenting Parson's Text Under the Quaker's Petticoats (Anonymous) [4'29]

AYRE from Little Consort Suite No 1 in G minor (Matthew Locke) [1'13]

MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN (Thomas Ravenscroft) [2'10]

THE MILLER OF DEE (Anonymous) [2'23]

PACKINGTON'S POUND (Anonymous) [2'12]

POX ON YOU FOR A FOP (Henry Purcell) [1'56]

THE HUNT IS UP (John Bennet) [2'06]

ALMAIN (Cuthbert Hely) [1'18]

THE JOLLY BARBER or The Barber fitted by a Wanton Miss of the Town (Anonymous) [3'16]

AS I WALKED FORTH or The Deceased Maiden Lover (Robert Johnson) [2'58]

SELDOM CLEANLY to the tune 'Upon a Summer's Time' (Martin Parker) [3'35]

SONATA IN G (William Croft) [2'44]

TOMORROW THE FOX WILL COME TO TOWN (Thomas Ravenscroft) [2'24]

THE WINCHESTER WEDDING (Thomas D'Urfey) [2'57]

SARABAND from Little Consort Suite No 2 in C major (Matthew Locke) [1'28]

GATHER YOUR ROSEBUDS (William Lawes) [1'29]

A BELLMAN'S SONG (Thomas Ravenscroft) [1'05]