In The Merry Month Of May (Henry Youll, 1608)

  1. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    Henry Youll (fl. 1608): Canzonets to 3 Voices
    9. In The Merry Month Of May


    Henry Youll (or Youell) was a late Elizabethan/Jacobean composer whose only known work is a collection of 24 madrigal for three voices published in 1608. This is the best-known of them. My instrumental version for two mandolins and tenor guitar is based on the Moeck edition for three recorders (Zeitschrift für Spielmusik, #61):

    https://www.stretta-music.com/en/hun...nr-414019.html

    There is an older public domain edition at IMSLP in the same key which is identical in the notes (but harder to read and with an unnecessary added piano part):

    https://imslp.org/wiki/Canzonets_to_...oull%2C_Henry)

    1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia mandolin (x2)
    Vintage Viaten tenor guitar


    https://youtu.be/h0smenFMoaY

    Martin
  2. Christian DP
    Christian DP
    A nice tune, the beginning of which reminds me a bit of Frere Jacques.
    You translate the recorder arrangement to a lively mandolin setting, Martin.
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