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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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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
Martin
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