What if a day - Anonymous Elizabethan tune - (Merck toch hoe sterk)

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Channel: My Life With Early Music · 2010 · Music

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Settings from this tune by Dowland and in the Jane Pickeringes Lute book and others.

In Holland this tune was counterfacted (translated) into the song Merck toch hoe sterk, one of the best known  geuzen songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen
Made famous in the Dutch gedenck-clanck from 1626 by Adriaen Valerius.

Renaissance Fakebook:
http://renmusicbooks.com/renaissance-fake-book-vol1.html 

art: Bartholomeus van der Helst


ernst stolz

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