De Engelsche Fortuijn (Virginal) - Monumenta Musica Neerlandica -

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Channel: My Life With Early Music · 2009 · Music

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Monumenta Musica Neerlandica
This piece, de Engelsche Fortuijn, is the tune the Dutch writer and poet Camphuysen used for his text Nu treurt myn ziel (now my soul is lamenting). It is composed by Butler. The English text is Fortune my foe, why doest thou frowne on mee?
There are keyboard settings from this by Byrd, Sweelinck and Scheidt, there are also various lute settings, Thysius lutebook, Vallets second book, etc).
painting: HOOCH, Pieter de, Interior with Figures 1663-65
Oil on canvas, 58 x 69 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ernst Stolz virginal & video

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