Renaissance Songs for the Small Harp

This book has 20 Renaissance Ballads, Early Folk Songs, “The Silver Swan” and other Madrigals in a lovely spiral bound book.

Renaissance Songs for the Small Harp, by Deborah Dahl Shanks, is arranged for smaller harps, later beginner to intermediate levels in the key of C. The Renaissance era (1400-1600) was a period of expansive growth of the arts based upon humanistic and secular ideas of fun, frolic, dance and song from all around the world.

BALLADS & OCCASIONAL MUSIC
A Toy [English, Anonymous]
The Short Mesure off My Lady Wynkfyld's Rownde
[English, Anonymous]
Orlando Sleepeth [English, John Dowland]
My Lady Carey's Dompe [English Lament, Anonymous] Diferencias sobre "Guardame las Vacas"
[Spanish Theme & Variations, Luys de Narvdez]
Go From My Window
[English Theme & Variations, Anonymous]

MADRIGALS
Dona Nobis Pacem [Latin, Anonymous]
The Silver Swan [English, Orlando Gibbons] Rest, Sweet Nymphs [English, Francis Pilkington]
April is in My Mistress Face [English, Thomas Morley]
O Eyes of My Beloved [Italian, Orlando di Lasso] My Heart Doth Beg You'll Not Forget
[French, Orlando di Lasso]

EARLY FOLK SONGS
Greensleeves (English)
Amazing Grace (English)
Scarborough Fair (English)
The Water is Wide (Scottish)
Londonderry Air (Irish)
Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (Scottish)
The Lorelei (German)
Moscow Nights (Russian)