The YORK WAITS

A new series of Early Music edited by James Merryweather: settings and arrangements of Medieval and Renaissance Song and Dance music for instrumental performance.
See http://www.theyorkwaits.org.uk/americanrecorder.html for a helpful review of some of the pieces.

PTYW 01

Grenon, Nicholas - La Plus Belle et Doulce Figure

3 ATT or SAA

£4.50

PTYW 02

Compere, Loyset - Nous Sommes de l'Ordre de St Babouin

4 SATB

£4.75

PTYW 03

Misc arr Bayley, Tim - Six Tudor Ballads

4 SATB

£4.75

PTYW 06

Kilvington, Thomas - Twelve Country Dances

Keyboard, with dance steps

£4.75

PTYW 07

Anon (German) - Die Katzenpfote

3 SAT

£4.50

PTYW 08

Anon (Leadley/Bayley) - Duke of York's Cotillion

3 SAB

£3.50

PTYW 12-16

Playford arr Bayley - Four Playford Dances

3-5 various

£5.00

PTYW 17

Ives, Simon - Saraband, by one of the London Waits

5 SSATB

£6.00

PTYW 18-21

London, York & Oxford Waits - Past Three O'Clock

Various

£4.50

PTYW 22

Anon arr Merryweather - Kemp's Jig

3 SAB etc

£4.50

PTYW 23

Savile, Jeremy - 3 Songs by one of the London Waits

3-4 voc

£4.50

PTYW 24

Misc: Obrecht, van Wilder, Bayley, Praetorius - Rompeltier: the evolution of a 15th-century German song

3-5 SAB/SATB x3/SATTB

£4.00
CHRISTMAS COLLECTION  

PTYW 101
Anon - Christmas Collection: Six Favourites from Piae Cantiones 1582 & 1625

2-5 various

£6.00

PTYW 102
Anon - Christmas Collection: Sore Afraid!

2-5 various

£7.80

PTYW 103
Anon - Christmas Collection: The Nativity

7 Old Christmas songs in 3, 4 and 5 parts including an arrangement of "The Seven Joys of Mary" ( there are parts provided for this one). Instrumentation suggests shawms, crumhorns, sackbutts and small pipes but they are equally suited to recorders.

£7.80

PTYW 104
Anon - Christmas Collection: Christmas Drones

More than 20 tunes from Christmases long past for bagpipes and Hurdy-Gurdies. Some single line and some arranged or with performance suggestions. Again they are suitable for recorders.

£7.80

PTYW 105
Anon - Christmas Collection: English Christmas

For 2-5 voices and instruments. Medieval and Renaissance Christmas music restored and arranged for instruments and voices:
Waits Wassail, Dingdong Merrily On High, Christmas Hath Made An End, Cold And Raw, The Old Year Now Away Is Fled, Now Winter Nights Enlarge, Drive The Cold Winter Way, Chestnut, Mall Peatly, All In A Garden Green, Dargason, All You That Are Good Fellows.

 £7.80

MERRYWEATHER

Merryweather, James (ed. & arr.) - Dr Merryweather's Song-Booke

Voc.

£22.50