Loth To Depart (Giles Farnaby, c. 1610)

[Martin Jonas]

Written by Giles Farnaby (1563-1640)
From the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (c. 1610), No. CCXXX

These are Farnaby's keyboard variations on a now-lost English ballad. John Dowland also wrote a set of variations for lute, different from Farnaby's.

Arranged for by Steve Hendricks (the shorter of his two arrangements of this piece):

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Fi...m/lothshrt.pdf

I've adapted the arrangement for mandolin quartet (two mandolins, tenor guitar and mandocello):

Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello



Martin

[billhay4]

Lovely.
What is the instrument in the slide at 1:39? Looks like some sort of pump organ, but I'm not sure.
Bill

[Martin Jonas]

Thanks, Bill. I'm not sure which slide you mean -- 1:39 is the total length of the video. Do you mean 0:49? I think that's a very imprecisely imagined positive organ. These paintings are all by 19th century pre-raphaelites, so they rate in historical accuracy of costume or instruments roughly on a par with Sir Walter Scott. The instruments are rather fanciful reimaginations rather than anything that might have existed in reality. The same applies to the pictures I used for the Orlando Gibbons pavane yesterday -- the Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting "The Bower Meadow" at 0:46 in the video has two sultry pseudo-renaissance maidens playing what apears to be an unlikely mandolin and psaltery duet, with the mandolin played lap style like a steel guitar and the psaltery like an autoharp.

Martin

[billhay4]

Sorry, Martin,
It shows at :50. Not sure how I got so mixed up. Yes, the postive organ is a good answer.
Bill