Ian Capps, host of Hawaii Public Radio’s The Early Muse, featured three of our songs in his May 9, 2010 show titled “Popular Music in 17th Century England” — ‘It was a lover and his lass,’ ‘Heigh ho! for a husband,’ and ‘Bugle Britches.’ Broadcast transcript follows after the break…
Song: It was a lover and his lass’ (Thomas Morley; duet arrangement by Edward Naylor)
“Elizabethan popular music was a mixture of frothy madrigals, songs for stage plays and street or tavern music. The New York quartet Good Pennyworths was a hit at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival. Their first recording, drawn from that concert, included a neat arrangement of Robert [sic] Morley’s best known madrigal, It was a lover and his lass. They continue with two rather more raucous or suggestive songs, typical of the newfound confidence of a populist society. In Heigh ho! for husband, a young maid cries, ‘I will have a husband, be he old or young!’ and then revises her ideas. In the more raunchy Bugle Britches, a farm girl tempts a soldier into the hayloft, and, well, you know the rest. Good Pennyworths is directed by lute player and baritone Garald Farnham.”
Song: Heigh ho! for a husband (Anonymous)
Song: Bugle Britches (Appalachian variation of ‘Trooper & Maid’ – Child Ballad #299)
“Heigh ho! for a husband and Bugle Britches, popular songs from Elizabethan England. Actually, in the second case, following an Appalachian variation. Garald Farnham, directing the New York quartet, Good Pennyworths, on their debut recording.”
— Ian Capps, host
Songs from the CD titled ‘Love! Lust! Longing… Loss’ by the Good Pennyworths (c) 2009, (p) 2009
Broadcast (c) 2010 Hawaii Public Radio
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