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Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1588-1635) was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music.
Little is known of Ravenscroft's early life. He probably sang in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral from 1594, when a Thomas Raniscroft was listed on the choir rolls and remained there until 1600 under the directorship of Thomas Giles. He received his bachelor's degree in 1605 from Cambridge.
Ravenscroft's principal contributions are his collections of folk music, including catches, rounds, street cries, vendor songs, "freeman's songs" and other anonymous music, in three collections: Pammelia (1609), Deuteromelia or The Seconde Part of Musicks Melodie (1609) and Melismata (1611), which contains one of the best-known works in his collections, The Three Ravens. Some of the music he compiled has acquired extraordinary fame, though his name is rarely associated with the music; for example "Three Blind Mice" first appears in Deuteromelia. He also published a metrical psalter (The Whole Booke of Psalmes) in 1621. As a composer, his works are mostly forgotten but include 11 anthems, 3 motets for five voices and 4 fantasias for viols.
As a writer, he wrote two treatises on music theory: A Briefe Discourse of the True (but Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees (London, 1614), and A Treatise of Musick, which remains in manuscript (unpublished). (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582/1592-1635) * Play:
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4 fantasias à5 for viols (or Broken Consort) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 10:58; * Released: 2015-3-31 (J) |
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Deuteromelia (1609) - Freemens Songs to 3 Voices * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 06:11; * Released: 2015-4-1 (J) |
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Deuteromelia (1609) - Rounds or Catches to 3 Voices * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 03:15; * Released: 2015-4-1 (J) |
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Deuteromelia (1609) - Freemens Songs to 4 Voices * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 07:28; * Released: 2015-4-1 (J) |
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20. Tomorrow the fox will come to town * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:43; * Played: 257 (J) |
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Deuteromelia (1609) - Rounds or Catches to 4 Voices * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 02:39; * Released: 2015-4-1 (J) |
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Pammelia: Rounds or Catches of three Voices (1609) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 12:22; * Released: 2015-4-2 (J) |
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3. Iolly shepheard and upon a hill as he sate * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:18; * Played: 220 (J) |
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6. Oken leaues in the merry wood so wilde * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:14; * Played: 217 (J) |
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11. New Oysters, new walestreet Oysters * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:07; * Played: 220 (J) |
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12. All in to seruice, the belles toles * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 00:49; * Played: 218 (J) |
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Pammelia: Cannon three parts in one, in the fift and ninth (1609) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 17:13; * Released: 2015-4-6 (J) |
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14. Miserere nostri Domine [Recorders and Voices] * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:29; * Played: 212 (J) |
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16. Intende voci Orationis mea [Recorders and Voices] * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 02:06; * Played: 207 (J) |
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18. Miserere nostri Dominen viuentium [Recorders and Voices] * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:36; * Played: 209 (J) |
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19. O Prayse the Lord ye that feare him * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 00:47; * Played: 209 (J) |
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20. The Nightingale, the mery Nightingale * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 01:05; * Played: 206 (J) |
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21. The old dogge, the iolly old dogge * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: 00:53; * Played: 209 (J) |
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Pammelia: Rounds or Catches of foure Voices (1609) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: xxxx; * Released: 2015-4-6; * Played: 0 (J) |
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Pammelia: Songs of fiue voices (1609) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: xxxx; * Released: 2015-4-6; * Played: 0 (J) |
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Pammelia: Songs of sixe voices (1609) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: xxxx; * Released: 2015-4-6; * Played: 0 (J) |
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Pammelia: Songs of seuen, eight, nine and ten voices (1609) * Play: high / normal / low ; * Time: xxxx; * Released: 2015-4-6; * Played: 0 (J) |
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