For those who like to learn songs from tablature or music notation, I have posted about half a dozen new songs on my website, Whistle and Squeak.
I hadn’t put any new music out for almost a year - changed computers, didn’t have time to update software, yada, yada, yada…
Anyway, the new tunes include two early American Hymns, “Come Away to the Skies” and “Do I Not Love Thee?”, A very early American carol from Canada, “Huron Carol”, and three new folk songs, “Cripple Creek”, the Shaker song “Simple Gifts”, and “Bryd One Brere”, a love song written about 1300 in Middle English.
Very many thanks for this - I am particularly interested in your ‘find’ of Bryd One Bere - where did you find it? Do you know anything about it’s history and are there any recordings of the tune?
Hey Mark, thank you very much for posting this link! I kept looking for sheet music for the last few hours on the web. Yours was the first page I really liked. The selection is great!
Just in case you still got some more Simon&Garfunkel arrangements up your sleeve, do post them soon. Please.
This is a fascinating tune, both in its history and melody. A super find - let’s hope that others learn it as this is a fundamental part of the English folk tradition.
Going around folk clubs I often come across “singer-songwriters” and occasionally a traditional singer, but most of these sing tunes mainly from the industrial revolution. It is seldom we hear medieval tunes (especially those sung in olde English).
It’s an amazing melody. As I was working with the software to create the midi and sheet music for my webpage, my 13-year-old son came into the room from the kitchen, commenting on what a pretty melody he was hearing. He was fascinated to learn that the song was about 700 years old.