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 composition. 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 Hundred" 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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