Traditional Folk Songs Of Many Nations
Online songbook with lyrics & Sheet Music for 70+ songs.
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Old Hundred. |
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Melody in Tenor. |
Contrapuntal arrangement by JOHN DOWLAND. |
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In the old contrapuntal works folk-songs were often made the core(or"cantus firmus")of the compo�sition. The melody was given, not to the highest voice, then caUed "discant" but to the Tenor! The above is an example of the appearance of a melody in the Tenor. Originally the melody of^Old Hun�dred" was probably an old folk song. The melody as sung to sacred words was first used by Louis Bourgeois, in the Genevan Psalter, in 1551. |
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