The School of Music

The Schoole of Musicke by Thomas Robinson , published in London in 1603 , was an important music textbook of the English Renaissance for lute , pandora , orpheoreon , viola da gamba and singing . The work, published again in 1610, is designed as an instrumental textbook in the form of a dialogue between master and student.

contents

1. The Queens's good Night (for two lutes)
2. Twenty waies upon the bels (for two sounds)
3. Row well you Marriners
4. A Galliard
5. A Galliard
6. A Plaine Song for 2 lutes
7. Greet his delight
8. Passamezzo Galliard
9. A Fantasie for 2 lutes (for two lutes)
10. A Toy for 2 lutes (for two lutes)
11. A Galliard
12. Merry melancholy
13. Robinson's Riddle
14. Go (e) from my window
15. A toy
16. A jig
17. To Almaigne
18. To Almaigne
19. A toy
20. A toy
21. Robin is to the greenwood gonw
22. A toy
23. The Queenes Gigue
24. Ut re mi fa so la: 9 sundry ways
25. My Lord Willobies Welcome Home
26. Bell Vedere
27. The Spanish Pavin
28. A jig
29. A jig
30. Walking in a country town
31. Bony sweet boy
32. A jig
33. Lantero
34. Three parts in one upon a [n old] ground
35. Sweet Jesu who shall lend me wings
36. A psalms
37. O Lord of whom I do depend
38. O Lord that art my righteousness

Also:

• Rules to instruct you to sing ( contains 8 short pieces, 7 of which are "A Psalme".)

literature

• David Lumsden (Ed.): Thomas Robinson: The Schoole of Musicke. Editions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1971, ISBN 2-222-01343-7 .

Web links

• Works by Thomas Robinson in tablature and MIDI on the server of the University of Dartmouth (New Hampshire, USA)
• Text excerpt from The Schoole of Musicke about hand position when playing the lute
• Online version of The Schoole of Musicke created by Jeff Lee (only about six pages online so far)

Remarks

1. ↑ Frederick Noad: The Renaissance Guitar. (= The Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology. Part 1) Ariel Publications, New York 1974; Reprint: Amsco Publications, New York / London / Sydney, ISBN 0-7119-0958-X , p. 16.
2. ↑ Toy (e) : dance piece in the style of a jig (or gigue ). Cf. Konrad Ragossnig : Manual of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , pp. 110 and 117.