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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