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Stonings, Henry: Browning

for 5 instruments.

These two pieces are taken from the British Library, Add. MS 31390.
The Stonings piece is one of several settings from around 1600 of what was evidently a popular tune; other polyphonic settings have come down by Elway Bevin (a 3), Clement Woodcock (a 5) and William Byrd.
Two texts seem to have been sung to the tune. One of the sources for the Byrd setting gives the following couplet:
The leaves be green, the nuts be brown,
They hang so high they will not come down.
Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia of 1609 gives a different text that relates to the "Browning" title:
Browning Madame, browning Madame,
So merrily we sing browning Madame,
The fairest flower in garden green,
Is in my love's breast full comely seen,
And with all others compare she can,
Therefore now let us sing Browning Madame.
Stoning´s is the shortest setting of this melody, with only five statements of the melody, one in each voice.
Clement Woodcock's Hackney is probably based at least in part on street cries used by the purveyors of horses for hire. which is apparently what "hackneys" were at this period.
In this edition the original note values have been halved in Browning, but retained in Hackney. Editorial accidentals are printed small above the stave, applying to the one note only.
These two pieces are most ideally suited to consorts of viols or recorders, though the Woodcock piece can also be quite effective on louder wind instruments such as cornetts and trombones.

In diesem Heft finden Sie weiter den Satz "Hackney" von Clement Woodcock.