Category: Publishing

Go to the “Laymusic lulu store”:http://stores.lulu.com/laymusic to download it for a small fee or order hard copy for a slightly larger fee.

Here’s the “Table of Contents”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-III.html.

None of these are really new, but they seem to have fallen through the cracks and never gotten up on the site. They’re up because of doing the Tables of Contents for the “Drinking Songs”:http://www.laymusic.org/drinking.html, and Dowland “Book I”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html and “Book II”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-II.html, and the upcoming Book III.

From Drinking Songs:

* He that will an alehouse keep
* Five Reasons
* To Anacreon in Heaven
* To Portsmouth

From Dowland Book I:

* Can she excuse my wrongs
* Come heavy sleepe the image of true death;

From Dowland Book II:

* XV. White as Lillies was hir face,
* XVI. Wofull hart with griefe oppressed,
* XVIII. Faction that ever dwells
* XIX. Shall I sue
* XXII. Humor say what mak’st thou heere

From Dowland Book III:

* Say love if ever thou didst find,
* Flow not so fast ye fountains,
* Love Stood Amazed
* Lend your ears to my sorrow
* By a fountain where I lay
* O what hath overwrought
* Farewell, unkind, farewell
* Weep you no more sad fountains
* Fie on this faining
* I must complain
* Come when I call,

You can download the PDF for a small fee, or order a hardcopy for a slightly larger fee at the laymusic lulu store.

You can see the Table of Contents.

I promised when I put the ??Drinking Songs?? and Dowland’s ??Book I?? on the laymusic lulu.com store that I would make it easy to download the contents individually, for people who really didn’t want to pay even a nominal (roughly $2) download fee.

I now have tables of contents for both books:

• “Dowland ??Book I??”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html
• “??Drinking Songs??”:http://www.laymusic.org/drinking.html

Unfortunately, some of the drinking songs are source only. Let me know if this is a problem for you.

You can now order the Dowland “??First Book of songs or ayres for four voices??”:http://www.lulu.com/content/608006from the “laymusic lulu store”:http://stores.lulu.com/laymusic.

I’ve finally decided that it isn’t worth it to spend my time doing store maintaining, and so I’ll be selling hardcopies primarily through “lulu.com”:http://stores.lulu.com/laymusic. The first thing available is the “Drinking Songs book”:http://www.lulu.com/content/603422. More will be coming soon.

I’m trying to finish up the entry of the Dowland ??Lachrimae??, so here are three new ones:

* “??Lachrimae verae??”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/374.html
* “??Semper Dowland, semper dolens??”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/375.html
* “??Sir Henry Umpton’s Funerall??”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/376.html

In addition, there’s a fairly major change (5 notes, including note values for four of them, plus a fix for the tenor word underlay) to “??Deare if you change??”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/77.html. If you have either Book I, or that piece individually, please download it again.

I’ve been transcribing at the usual rate, but being a bit lazy about putting them up. So we have:

* A set of pieces related to the Josquin ??Mille Regrets??:
** Susato’s “Mille Regrets”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/368.html, with editorial underlay of the Cantus line only. My group complains about the underlay but hasn’t suggested any improvements.
** Josquin’s “Mille Regrets”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/369.html
** Susato’s “Les miens aussi”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/367.html, which is a ??Responce?? to the Josquin. Basically, the girl is saying, “Yes, I am also not long for this world once you leave.”
* Some new Byrd:
** “In Nomine II”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/370.html
** “In crystal Towers”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/371.html
** “I have been young”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/372.html
* Wilbye’s “Draw on sweet Night”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/373.html

In honor of the discussions of the “Sting Album”:http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5001096, I’ve gotten “most of the Dowland’s on the site”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#4 upgraded to lilypond 2.9.

While I was at it, I also removed the numbers from the piece title in the database, so that the “By Composer”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html page prints them alphabetically by title, so that you can find ??Now O Now I needs must Part?? under N instead of VI.

I believe that what’s missing are a few of the pieces from the end of ??A Pilgrim’s Solace??, and of course all the ones from ??Lachrimae?? that aren’t transcribed yet. I have found a source for MIDI files for the whole of ??Lachrimae??, so the rest will be appearing shortly, and I will also be converting the lilypond from ??A Pilgrim’s Solace?? soon.

I in fact also have the Dowland “First Booke”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html updated.

In the past, I have shared essentially all the publishing work I’ve done online, and only charged people who wanted me to print it for them.

I will continue to do this with the basic typesetting I do, which I do as a member and director of a group which sings and plays music I love, and which I want other people to sing and play and love as much as I do.

However, the work of compiling books isn’t really necessary for this effort, so I have decided that in the future, the books will be available for sale, but not for free download.

I will be organizing the database driven part of the site better, so that it will be easier to find and print all the pieces in a given book if that’s what you want to do. And I will leave up the PDF files that are already there, but not the updates and new books that I produce.

This week there are two new composers: “Benedetto Marcello”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#72 and “John Wilbye”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#73. They’re both people I’ve known about for years but never happened to transcribe anything by.

I transcribed the “Marcello Sonata III”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/365.html because I’m playing it at a “Master Class”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=329, and needed to print out copies for an accompanist, the teacher, and the other attendees. I could have copied the facsimile, which is what I’m playing from, but the accompanist at least probably prefers not to have to read the switches to C clefs and some of the cramped and scrawled figures that are in the facsimile.

The fourth movement of the Marcello is the one that uses the same tune as “Danza, danza fanciulla gentile”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/363.html.

I had sung and enjoyed the Wilbye ??Draw on Sweet Night??, so when I ran into “Weep, weep mine Eyes”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/366.html in a box of music from a friend, I pulled it out for doing with the “band”:http://www.laymusic.org/windband.html and we turned out to really like it.

The score was at “cpdl.org”:http://www.cpdl.org, so I used the “the lilypond finale converter”:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Invoking-etf2ly.html to put it into the unbarred parts that we use. It probably would have been easier to just type it in my normal way, since I had to enter both the rests and the lyrics, but it does save some proofreading time.