The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft: Discography

This discography was mostly compiled by Bernd Roth. It is culled from a large number of other catalogs and discographies. For additional information, you can search for "Ravenscroft" or individual tune titles at medieval.org and freedb.org.


T. Ravenscroft: Songs,Rounds and Catches
Consort of Musicke, Rooley
Label: Virgin Classics, DDD, 1989
contains:
  - The Cryers Song of Cheape Side (MEL # 14)
  - A Round of three country dances in one (PAM # 74)
  - Martin said to his man (DEU # 16)
  - Wee be Souldiers three (DEU # 5)
  - Yonder comes a courteus knight (DEU # 22)
  - Of all the birds that ever I see (DEU # 7)
  - A wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kents Sonne (MEL # 22)
  - Browning Madame (DEU # 9)
  - Three blinde Mice (DEU # 13)
  - To morrow the Fox will come to towne (DEU # 20)
  - Viol Fancy a 5
  - Fantasia No. 4
  - Fancy No.1
  - The crowning of Belphebe (MEL # 2)
  - The marriage of the frogge and the mouse (MEL # 21)
  - Musing mine owne selfe all alone (?)
  - Laboravi in gemitu meo
  - Ne laeteris inimica mea
  - There were three ravens (MEL # 20)
  - The wooing of Hodge and Malkyn (BRIEFE DISCOURSE)

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"Cries & Ballads of London"
Songs & instrumental pieces from Ravenscroft,
            Dowland,Holborne,Woodstock,Tye,Weelkes,
            Ford,Ferrabosco II,Coperario,Eyck,Cobbold &
            anonym. composers
Ensemble Circa 1500, Hadden
Label: CRD, DDD, 91

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"Englische Renaissancemusik"
Music from .Estree,Johnson,Ravenscroft,Morley,
            Byrd,Dowland,Allison & anonym.
            composers    
Baltimore Consort
Label: Dorian, DDD, 90

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"Part Songs - Purcell in the Ale House"
Music from Ravenscroft,Bennett,Piers,Brown,Purcell,
            Isum,Coleman & Lautenlieder v.Pilkington,
            Jones,Dowland,Campion
Partridge,Pro Cantione Antiqua
Label: Teldec, ADD, 79

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"The Singing Club"
Songs from Ravenscroft,Hilton,Lawes,Wilson,Purcell,
            Battishell,Arne,Bishop,Barnby,Smith,Pearsall
            Hilliard Ensemble,Hillier
Label: Harmonia Mindi France, AAD, 84
contains:
- A round of three country dances in one (PAM # 74)
- There were three ravens (MEL # 20)

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17th Century Social Music
Music froms Webster,Ravenscroft,Locke,Purcell,Bennet,
            Hely,Johnson,Parker,Croft,Urfey,Lawes
The City Waites
Label: Hyperion, AAD, 80

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"Bright Day Star - Music for Yuletide"
Music for xmas from Hermann,Sandys,Bull,Brameley/Stainer,
            Praetorius,Bach,Ravenscroft & Traditionals
Baltimore Consort
Label: Dorian, DDD, 94

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"Music for Robin Hood and his King"
St. Georges`s Canzona, John Scott
cont.:
  - Now Robin, lend to me thy bow

ENIGMA K53532
HISPAVOX S90.105

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"Lo, Countrey Sport"
Purcell Consort of Voices, Grayston Burgess
Elizabethan Consort of Viols, James Tyler
cont.:
  - A round of three country dances
  - To morrow the fox

ARGO ZRG 658

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"Broadside On - Popular Music from the Time of the Armada"
Peasants All
cont.:
  - We be three poor mariners (Deuteromalia)

PLANT LIFE PLR 024

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[no title given]
The Deller Consort, Desmond Dupre
cont.:
  - He that will an alehouse keep

HARMONIA MUNDI HMF 202

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"Countrie Faire - A Collection of Popular Ballads and Dance Tunes from the
16th. and 17th. centuries"
Peasants ALL
cont.:
  - Wee be soldiers three

PLANT LIFE PLR 016

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"Character Songs"
Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
cont.:
  - Yonder comes a courteous Knight

FLORILEGIUM DSLO 545

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"English secular Music of the late Renaissance"
Purcell Consort of Voices, Grayston Burgess
Jaye Consort of Viols
cont.:
  - Rustic lovers

TURNABOUT TV 37079

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"Warlock's Arrangements of Elizabethan Songs"
Partridge, Tylor, Partidge, Gray, Tomlinson, Brown, Clarke, Hunter,
Lewington, Hazell
cont.:
  - Malt's come down
  - Jinkin the Jester
  - The Maid she went a-milking
  - What hap had I to marry a shrow
  - By the bank as I lay
  - He that will an alehouse keep

PEARL, SHE 525

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"A Handful of Pleasant Delites - A Collection of Popular English Music from
the 13th. to the 17th. century"
Peasants All
cont.:
  - Martin said to his man

PLANT LIFE PLR 008

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"A Tapestry of Music for Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads"
St. George's Canzona, John Scothcott
cont.:
  - The Owl (Deuteromalia, 1609)    [probably DEU # 7 "Of all the birds ...."]

ENIGMA K53581

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"Cakes and Ale - Catches and Partsongs"
Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown
cont.:
  - We be soldiers three
  - The three ravens
  - Trudge away quickly
  - Of all the birds
  - We be three poor mariners
  - By a bank
  - The marriage of the frog and the mouse
  - Remember O thou man
  - 3 Country Dances in one

HARMONIA MUNDI 1C065-99611

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"Music for Knole"
div. 
cont.:
  - Tomorrow the fox

FOLIO SOCIETY FS 1003/4

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"The cries of London: Music in Honor of Queen Elizabeth"
Ambrosian Singers and Players, D. Stevens
 - Maids to bed
 - Where are you, fair maids

Experiences Anonymes EA 81; Eas 81D and reissue on
Penn State Music Series PSMS 100; 100-s and AVRS 6149 and ORYX EXP 31
[C/C 73, p. 50]

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"Music for Twelth Night"
Renaissance Quartett
 - Remember, O thou man

Project 3 (S) 7000
[C/C 73, p. 94]

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"Childrens Songs of Shakespeare's Time"
New York Pro Musica, Greenberg
 - It was a frog
 - There were three ravens
 - Willie prithee go to bed

CPT 540
[C/C 64, # 166, p.18]

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"The cries of London"
Deller Consort, Ambrosian Singers, London Chamber Players
 - New oysters
 - Bellman's Song
 - Painter's song
 - Brooms for old shoes

BG 563
[C/C 64, # 175]

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"English Madrigals"
New England Conservatory Alumni Chorus, de Varon

 - Willy, prithee go to bed

HSL 2068
[C/C 64, # 196]

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"Englische Lieder und Lautenstoecke"
Paul Esswood, Joergen Hoebscher
- The three Ravens

HEK 190 3012 (= Helikon)

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"Bright Day Star - Old Carols and Dance Tunes from the British Isles,
Germany and Appalachia"
Baltimore Consort
 - Remember, O thou man

DOR 90 198 (= Dorian)

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"So Quick, So Hot, So Mad - Elizabethan Bawdy Songs"
Frederick Renz, New York Ensemble for Early Music
 -  I pray you, good mother
 -  Maids to bed and cover coal

MM 67136-2 (= Musicmasters)

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"How the World Wages - Gesellschaftsmusik d. 17.Jh. in England"
Ensemble City Waites
 - Martin said to his man
 - Tomorrow the fox will come to town
 - Who liveth so merry

Hy 66 008 (= Hyperion)

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"Purcell in the Ale House - English Part Songs"
Browne, Partridge, Wilson, Hunt, Pro Cantione Antiqua London
 - Give us once a drink
 - Hey ho, nobody at home
 - Hey ho, to the Greenwood
 - Cannot come
 - Long have we bin perplexed
 - Tomorrow the fox will come
 - Who liveth so merry
 - Who's the fool now
 - Yonder comes a courteous knight

TEL 4509 97 993-2ZS (= Teldec)


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