A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

Name: A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits
SKU: R177
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Anthony Munday’s 1588 Miscellany with Tunes

Edited by Ross W. Duffin

R177 A Musicall Banquet of Daintie Conceits

978-1-9872-0850-4 Full Score (2023) 7.5x10, xv + 94 pp.

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Abstract

In 1588 Anthony Munday published A Banquet of Daintie Conceits, containing twenty-two new moral poems in various verse forms. Ranked with the best comic playwrights of his day, including Shakespeare, he was also a travel-writer, religious spy, actor, translator, royal messenger, deviser of civic entertainments, and historian. Munday confessed that he was not knowledgeable in music, yet he named a tune for singing each poem. Intriguingly, unlike typical broadside ballad tunes, most of Munday’s tunes are dances, and of the twenty-two named, fourteen are known from solo instrumental arrangements. Despite that survival, despite the poet’s fame, and despite an 1812 edition of the poems from the unique extant copy, this is the first attempt to set Munday’s Banquet lyrics to their respective music. Poems with unidentified melodies are set to period tunes that fit their versifications, making all the lyrics singable for the first time in over 400 years.

Contents

A Banquet of Daintie Conceits

1. When I behold the rechless race of youth

2. What state so sure, but time subuarts?

3. When fond desire, had drawne my mind to Loue

4. A Diew my former pleasure

5. List a while faire Ladies

6. When I sometime begin to thinke vpon

7. A Merchaunt of great riches dwelt

8. Such men as betake them to pleasure and ease

9. Softe fire makes sweete Mault, they say

10. Two freends that had a stocke of Corne

11. The statelie Pine, whose braunches spreade so faire

12. As Iesus went to Galilee

13. O What a thing of strength is wine?

14. If Wine be strong, what strength haue men

15. It neither is the mightie King

16. You youthfull heads, whose climing mindes

17. It chaunced on a time, that a lewde Theefe

18. A Certaine yong man, as I reade

19. The Well this man for refuge tooke

20. Who list to see a patterne of abuse

21. Farewell sweet Fancie

22. It was my chaunce to walke abroade

Bio

Ross W. Duffin is Distinguished University Professor and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University. He is a winner of the Thomas Binkley and Howard Mayer Brown Awards from Early Music America, and the Noah Greenberg and Claude V. Palisca Awards from the American Musicological Society.