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    Registered User Richard Carver's Avatar
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    Default Ah Robin, Gentle Robin - Cornyshe

    A round by William Cornyshe (d. 1523), played on mandolin and guitar.

    Purists may object that American Robins are thrushes, not robins, but it's all I had in my back garden.


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    Default Re: Ah Robin, Gentle Robin - Cornyshe

    Thanks to Richard for pointing me to this lovely tune -- here is my own version with a mandocello ground bass, following our discussion in the SAW group.

    William Cornysh (1465-1623): Ah Robin, Gentle Robin

    I've used the score at IMSLP:

    https://imslp.org/wiki/Ah_Robin%2C_G...sh%2C_William)

    The song is in the form of a two-part bass ground played as a canon, with a treble melody line coming in after the first round. I'm playing the canonic ground on mandocello and octave mandolin, and the melody on a nylon-strung four-string bowlback mandolin, a reasonable (?) appromixation of a renaissance mandora or soprano lute.

    Suzuki MC-815 mandocello
    Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin
    "Baroq-ulele" nylgut-strung bowlback mandolin


    https://youtu.be/PGdFuBSNWMY

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