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"Personent Hodie." Festival processional from the 13th century, a praise song surrounding the Nativity. Recorded in the _Piae Cantiones_ of 1582, both tune and text. The arrangement I have is for mixed choir, 4 antiphonal trumpets, organ. percussion, and brass. This arrangement is in Bb, done by Lara Hoggard, copyright 1985. I would be happy to send you a copy of the piece, if anyone wants it...let me know if anyone wants to transpose it..we'd love to do it for a Coronation processional! Fiona macLachlan
Click here to hear Personent Hodie sung by the Merrimack Valley Chorale.
Andrea Gabrieli (1510-1586)
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
English Country Dance and Song Society
The Medieval Lyric
Sixteenth Century Ballads
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	'Bonnie Susie Cleland', version by Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise on "A Celebration of Scottish Music", Temple Records.
	"The Bonny Hyn", first collected in Herd's MSS, I, 224; II, fol.65, fol.83

	Carmina Burana Version Originale. 1992. Harmonia Mundi #90335.
	"Ja nuns hons pris" in two books; one calls it b anonymous, the other says "attributed to Richard the Lion Hearted"
	"Matty Groves" quoted in a play of 1604
	Music of the Royal Courts of Europe for Acoustic Guitar
	Polanska, Elena, and La Camerata. The Medieval Harp/The Renaissance Harp. Vox/Turnabout.
Books

Ancient and Modern Minstrelsy. 1842.

	Bell, Robert. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England.
	Blood-Patterson, Peter. Rise Up Singing.
	Boni, M. 1966. The Fireside Book of Folk Songs
	Bronson, Bertrand Harris. 1977. The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads. Princeton University Press.
Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5	Child, Francis James, ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Dover.
	Collins, Fletcher, Jr, Robert F. Cook and Roger Harmon, eds. A Medieval Songbook: Troubadour and Trouvere. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 1982 . A ballad in nine seven-line stanzas, supposed to be by a Meistersinger, preserved in broadsides of about 1550 and 1603, Boehme, No. 5, p.30, Erk's Wunderhorn, IV, 111

	Davis, Meg. 1984. "Traditional Welsh Song" on a filk tape, Dream of Light Horses.
	Dobson, E.J., and F. Ll. Harrison. 1979. Medieval English Songs. Cambridge University Press.

	Dowland, John. English Lute Songs. Shattinger Intl Musice Corp.
	Friou, Deborah. 1988. Early Music for the Harp. Woods Music and Books.

John, J.F.R. and C. Stainer. Early Bodleian Music.

Livingston, Carole Rose. 1991. British Broadside Ballads of the Sixteenth Century. Garland Publishing.

	McGee, Timothy. 1988. Medieval and Renaissance Music, a Performer's Guide. University of Toronto Press.
	McGee, Timothy. 1989. Medieval Instrumental Dances. Indiana University Press.

	Motherwell, William. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: with an historical introduction and notes. [Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co, M DCCCXLVI]
	Musica Enchiriadis and Scholia Enchiriadis.
	The New Grove Dictionary of Music.
	Percy, Thomas. 1985. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

	Reed, James. 1991. The Border Ballads.
	Robbins, Rosell Hope. Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries.
	Rosenberg, Samuel N., ed. 1981. Chanter M'estuet: Songs of the Trouveres. Music edited by Hans Tischler. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. "Carmina Burana, vol. II", with the New London Consort, directed by Philip Pickett. on the L'Oiseau-Lyre/Decca label, no. 421 062-2
	A Sing Out Publication. the English translation is c. J.B. Cramer & Co., Ltd.
	Southern Folklore, Volume 53, Number 3. "Outlaws and Other Medieval Heroes."
	Stainer and Bell. The English Lute Song (Series 1 & 2).
	Troubadours. Cantigas de Santa Maria. Harmonia Mundi Franc - #2901524.

Yudkin, Jeremy. 1989. Music in Medieval Europe. Prentice Hall.

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