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Cobbold, William: Consort Songs and Viol Consorts

in Five Parts, edited and reconstructed by Ian Payne.

William Cobbold was a Norwich composer who moved in some of the same spheres as William Byrd. His work is still little played and we hope that these two volumes will help to put him more firmly on the map. 'New Fashions', for which he is probably best known, is a large and complex piece for five voices and five viols, ingeniously combining 'cries' with numerous popular tunes of the day such as 'Greensleeves' and 'Browning', and the first of these volumes contains a new reconstruction by Ian Payne in which he supplies hitherto missing passages. The editor has also reconstructed a consort verse anthem 'In Bethlehern Town' from surviving liturgical sources. Together these should make good material for playing over the holiday. In the second volume the beautiful and dramatic 'Ye mortal wights' is joined by nine more consort songs and two untexted songs: all in five parts, usually one voice and four viols, but also very playable instrumentally. After William Byrd this is the largest published collection of consort songs by one composer. There are also two five-part consort pieces, both previously published in Elizabethan Consort Music II but here given new reconstructions. All partbooks are underlayed where appropriate.