5 Dances from the Lumley Books

(British Library, Royal App. 74-6) for 5 instruments high version (up a fifth of the above).

These five dances are taken from the so-called Lumley Books (British Library, Royal App. 74-6), a collection, compiled around the middle of the sixteenth century, of what appear to be mostly Italian and French dances.
The pavana marquese, with its slow harmonic rhythm, seems to be a pavana of the passamezzo type, usually played and danced considerably faster than a standard pavan; the same applies to no. 5. The most unusual piece here is a pavan for five equal instruments, written out in the bass register. While this may have been intended as a curiosity for amateur viol players, another rather tempting possibility is that the composer might have had five sackbuts in mind, who would have probably transposed it up a fifth, into what would be a very comfortable register for all five players.
All of the remaining four pieces seem to have been written in four parts originally, the fifth part being an afterthought. These added parts have sometimes been despised (e.g. by Paul Doe.in Musica Britannica), but they are actually very characteristic of mid-16th century dance music, and can be very effective in spicing up the texture, especially in a wind band. It is important to assign the fifth part to an instrument that is clearly audible, but which will not dominate the texture (for instance, in a loud band, sackbut rather than shawm).
The written pitch of these pieces is quite low, certainly for a wind group, so we have made available a high-pitch version (up a fourth or fifth) as EMI, 291a.
The original note values have been halved throughout. Editorial accidentals are shown in the usual way, that is above the stave, applying to the one note only. There are a few minor crudities, chiefly consecutive octaves and fifths: I have not attempted to correct these, as I consider them quite characteristic of real (as opposed to stylised) dance Music from this period.

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