I know I've seen that book, but we don't seem to have it. We have An English Song Book, and Medieval English Songs, and the "Medieval Carols" volume of Musica Brittanica, but not the Greene volume. Anyway, we've done and performed at least three or four contrefacts on this repertoire, usually fitting the words of one 15c English carol to the tune of another (which isn't as easy as it sounds, since most of them have irregular phrase structures, and no two have the same irregular phrase structure).
Early English Carols
Date: 2007-05-20 11:00 pm (UTC)