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Score 1. Vocal v. 1-8 -- Score 2. Instrumental v. 1-4 -- Score 3. Rhythms v. 1. |
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v. 1, pt. 1 (Vocal). Pre-Renaissance. Ut queant laxis (Hymn to St. John the Baptist): plainsong / text by Paulus Diaconus (Paul the Deacon, c. 730-799) ; English version by Richard Ellis Roberts ; melody traceable to 10th century ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Caeli Deus sanctissime (O God, whose hand hath spread the sky): plainsong / text anonymous, 8th century ; English version by J.M. Neale ; melody traceable to 12th century ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, creator, thou all-divine): plainsong / text anonymous, 10th century ; English version revised from James A. D. Aylward by GR ; melody traceable to 13th century ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Au temps d'aout (In August time) / Anonymous ; transcribed into modern notation and translated by Gustave Reese -- Renaissance. Cantemus hymnum (Let hymns resound) / Anonymous (14th century) after a ms source from Bohemia ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Personent hodie (Celebrate joyously) / Anonymous (14th century), present version from Piae Cantiones (1582) ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Three catches/hey ho, nobody at home ; Joy in the gates ; Joan come kiss me now / Anonymous, Pammelia (1609) ; edited by Noah Greenberg -- Baroque. A pastoral / Mr. Carey ; edited by Pandora Hopkins, Claude Palisca consultant -- Classic. O Gotteslamm (Oh lamb of God) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Zufriedenheit (I'm pleased with life) / Franz Josef Haydn ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Romantic. Der Freie Mann (The free man) / Ludwig van Beethoven ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Die Leineweber haben eine saubere Zunft (The Linenweavers): folk song / translation by Anne Grossman -- Poppies / Alexander Gretchaninov ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Och Moder, ich well en Ding han (Oh, mother, give me something) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- The street / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Sonntag (Sunday) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Contemporary. Two pieces for practically any day except Feb. 29th / Mark Bucci -- Midnight / text and music Robert Starer -- Folk music. Dance of the deer: Yaqui / edited by Theodore Grahme -- Dhkir: Tunistan / edited by Theodore Grahme -- Num Yaldi (Sleep my child): Israeli folk song, Zemer Am / edited and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Bin ich Mir a Schnayderl (I am a little tailor): Yiddish folk song, Rubin / translated by Nicholas M. England -- Hey the dusty miller: Scottish / Robert Burns ; eidted by Pandora Hopkins -- Tri djevojke zito zele (Three young maidens): Croation folk song, Hrvatske N. P., no. 60 from Lomnica / adapted, arranged and translated by Nicholas M. England -- I ken tzu chu chih miao miao (The purple bamboo): Chinese folk song / edited and translated by Chou Wen-chung, with Nicholas M. England -- En cada primavera (In each spring): 3 voice canon ; Banqueta de tres pies: Spain / translated and edited by Pandora Hopkins. |
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v. 1., pt. 2 (Vocal). Pre-Renaissance. Pois preyatz me (The moody singer) / Bernart de Vetandorn ; transcribed into modern notation and English version by Gustave Reese -- Wie schon wir hier den Anger liegen sahen (The arrival of summer) / Neidhart von Reuental ; transcribed into modern notation and translated by Gustave Reese -- Telluris ingens conditor (Earth's mighty maker): plainsong / text anonymous (8th century) ; English version adapted from an anonymous translation by Gustave Reese, melody traceable to 13th century -- Renaissance. Puer natus in Bethlehem (A child is born in Bethlehem) / Michael Praetorius, Musae Sioniae IX (1611) ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translation by Charles Canfield Brown -- Expandi manus (To thee I stretch forth my hands) (Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales (1584)) / Orlandus [Orlando] Lassus / edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Hubert Creekmore -- Den die Hirten (A shepherd's praise) / Anonymous (14th century), common 16th century version / edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Jo. Olson and Charles Canfield Brown -- Dela la riviere (Look beyond the river) / Anonymous (late 15th century), Paris Bibl. nat. Ms. Fr. 12744 / edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- L'amour de moi (The garden) / Anonymous (Bayeux Ms, ca. 1510) / edited by Noah Greenberg ; English version by Gustave Reese -- Baroque. Pieces for viol and voice: from an old Aberdeen music book (with bowings for violin) / edited by Pandora Hopkins, Claude Palisca, consultant ; The gowans are gay ; Like as the lark within the marleons foot / Anonymous ; Sweet Kate / Robert Jones -- Romantic. Der Morgenstern (The morning star) / Franz Schubert ; translated b Anne Grossman -- Der Morgenstern (The morning star): F horn part -- Der Gang zum Liebchen (The way to my beloved) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Street song / Mily Balakirev ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Die Liebe des Nachsten (Love thy neighbor) / Ludwig van Beethoven ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Als der Grossvater die Grossmutter nahm (When the old grandfather grandmother wed): German folk song / translation by Anne Grossman -- The goat / Piotr Ilytich Tchaikovsky / translation by Anne Grossman. |
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v. 1, pt. 3 (Vocal). Pre-Renaissance. Ce fut en mai (It was in May) / Moniot d'Arras ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Lucis Creator optime (O blest creator of the light): plainsong / text anonymous (probably 8th century) ; English version revised from J.M. Neale by Gustave Reese, melody traceable to 13th century ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Ortus refulget lucifer (The morning star fades from the sky): plainsong / text perhaps by St. Ambrose (5th century) ; English version revised from John Julian by Gustave Reese, melody traceable to 12th century ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Conditor alme siderum (Creator of the stars of night) / text anonymous (9th century) ; English version adapted from J.M. Neale by Gustave Reese, melody traceable to 13th century ; transcribed into modern notation by Gustave Reese -- Renaissance. Gagliarda: Tanzen und Springen (Dancing and springing) / Hans Leo Hassler (Lustgarten, 1601) ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- L'autre jour par un matinet (Early in the morn) / Anonymous (c. 1500, Bayeux Chansonnier) ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Hubert Creekmore -- Sonatemi un balletto (The dancers) / Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (Balletti a treci voci, 1594) ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Jolly shepherd / Anonymous (Pammelia, 1609) ; edited by Noah Greenberg -- Now robin / Anonymous (Pammelia, 1609) ; edited by Noah Greenberg -- Baroque. Gluck (Good luck) / Georg Philip Telemann ; edited and translated by Claude V. Palisca -- Classic. The white cockade (Scotch folksong) / arranged by Franz Josef Haydn -- Die Hofstellungen (Life at court) / Franz Josef Haydn ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Romantic. Autumn:a folk song / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Mailed-I (First May-song) ; Mailed-II (Second May-song) / Franz Schubert ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Mailed-I (First May-song): Mailed-II (Second-May song): French horn part -- Marienwurmchen (Ladybug) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Summer / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Liebes-A-B-C (Dear ABC) / August Pohlenz ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Schweizerlied (Swiss song) / Franz Schubert ; text by J. W. von Goethe ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Das Blumchen Wunderhold (The loveliest flower) / Ludwig van Beethoven ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Contemporary. Rats! / Karl Korte ; [text by] Robert Browning (from the Pied Piper of Hamelin) -- Where go the boats / Ulysses Kay ; [text by] Robert Louis Stevenson -- The little elf-man / Ulysses Kay ; [text by] John Kendrick Bangs -- A blue song / Hugh Aitken ; [text by] Elizabeth Aitken -- Sofda unga astin min (Sleep, my darling): Iceland -- Bi, bi, og blaka (Flip, flap, and fluttering): Icelandic / traditional tunes and texts transcribed and edited by Pandora Hopkins -- Pronunciation guide for Iceland lullabies -- Nanna (A lullaby): Corsica / translated by David L. Burrows ; edited by Theodore Grame -- Skalicke panenki (Skalicke maidens fair): Slovak folk song (Slovenske, no. 265) / translated by Nicholas M. England -- Ta sipova ruzicka (The sweet wild rose): Slova folk song (Slovenske, no. 364) / translated by Nicholas M. England -- There's nought but care on ev'ry han': Scottish / [text by] Robert Burns ; edited by Pandora Hopkins. |
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v. 1, pt. 4 (Vocal). Pre-Renaissance. Orientibus partibus (Song in praise of a mule) / Anonymous French piece (13th century) ; transcribed into modern notation and English version by Gustave Reese -- Kalenda maya (Soon we'll have summer) / Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ; transcribed into modern notation and English version by Gustave Reese -- Der Konig Rudolf (The dauntless one speaks his mind) / Der Unverzagete (The dauntless one) ; transcribed into modern notation and translated by Gustave Reese -- Renaissance. Zu Bethlehem geboren ist (A child is born in Bethlehem) / melody from Michael Altenburg's Kirchen-und Hausgesange (1620) ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated from Charles Canfield Brown ; text from "Aus Jakobs Stamm" by Johann Forster -- Nun ist est es Zeit (Now is the time) / melody by Joachim a Burck from Geistliche Lieder (1575) ; edited by Noah Greenberg ; translated by Charles Canfield Brown ; text by Ludwig Helmbold (original pitch a perfect 4th higher) -- The great bells ; Three blind mice / Anonymous (Deuteromelia, 1609) ; edited by Noah Greenberg -- O si scires gloriam (If your heart sinks in distress) / Anonymous (Piae Cantiones, 1582), Stanza 4 of "Scribere proposui" ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Blow thy horn, hunter / William Cornysh ; edited by Gustave Reese (original pitch down a whole step) -- Baroque. Old poets have told us / Anonymous ; edited by Pandora Hopkins, Claude Palisca (consultant) -- Classic. Die Zufriedenheit (Contentment) Kochel no. 397b / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; translated by Anne Grossmann -- Die Liebe der Feinde (The love of one's enemy) / Franz Josef Haydn ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Romantic. The crane / Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Heidenroslein (Rosebud in the heather) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Des Phobus Strahlen (Phoebus' rays) / Franz Schubert ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Dort in den Weiden steht ein Haus (A cottage stands beside a brook) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Der Wanderer an den Mond (The wanderer speaks to the moon) / Franz Schubert ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Fruhlingsbotschaft (Spring's message) / Robert Schumann ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Contemporary. The bellman's song / Lee Hoiby ; [text by] anonymous 17th century -- The swing / John Chorbajian ; [text by] Robert Louis Stevenson from A Child's Garden of Verses -- Rain / Ronald LoPresti ; [text by] Loretta Spatz -- Folk music. Go get you gone, old rooster: Ukrainian ; Lullaby: Ukrainian / transcribed, edited and translated by Luba and David Burrows -- Izniknulo drevcece (Up from the earth): Croation folk song (Hrvatske N.P., no. 82 from Novaki) / adapted, arranged and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Drobne male lastavicke (Little tiny swallows): Croation folk song (Hrvatske N. P., no. 93 from Petrijanec) / adapted, arranged and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Lepo nase medimurje (Beautiful medimurje): Croation folk song (Hrvatske N. P., no. 105 from Prelog) / adapted, arranged and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Zhankoye: Yiddish folk song (Rubin) / translated by Nicholas M. England -- Ta kalotykha vouna (The fortunate mountains): Greek folk song from Thessaly / collected and transcribed by Ellen Frye ; edited and translated by Nicholas M. England. |
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v. 1, pt. 7 (Vocal). Pre-Renaissance. Ecce jam noctis (Lo, now the shadows of the night) / text attributed to Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), English version by Gustave Reese and Lawrence Bennett, melody traceable to 12th century -- Hostis Herodes impie (Why, cruel Herod, should you fear): plainsong / text anonymous 8th century, English version revised fro J. M. Neale by GR, melody traceable to 13th century -- Maienzeit (Maytime) / Anonymous ; translated by Gustave Reese and Lawrence Bennett -- Renaissance. O nui, heureuse nuit (O night, most happy night) / anonymous parady of text by Ph. Desportes ; melody printed by Jean Chardavoine (1588) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Chantons Noel (Sing Christmas time) / Nicolas Martin, from Noelz et Chansons (1556) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Homo quidam Rex nobilis (A monarch rich) / Anonymous from Piae Cantiones (1582) ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Or vous tremoussez (Moving ceaselessly) / text by Jean Daniel (ca. 1530) to be sung to the popular melody Et d'ou venez-vous Madame Lucette? ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Omnis mundus (All the world) / Anonymous (14th century?), present version from Piae Cantiones (1582) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, English version by Charles Canfield Brown -- El grillo (The cricket) from Frottole libro tertio (Venice, 1505) / Josquin des Prez ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Classic. Will ye go to Flanders: Scotch folksong / arranged by Franz Josef Haydn -- Die Zufriedenheit (Happiness) K. 473 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; [text by] Christian Felix Weisse, translated by Anne Grossman -- Romantic. Tischlied (Table song) / Franz Schubert ; text by J. W. von Goethe, translated by Anne Grossman -- Die Henne (The chicken) ; Das Schlaraffenland (The fool's paradise) / Johannes Brahms ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Sweet sleep from Ruslan and Ludmilla / Michael Glinka ; translation by Anne Grossman, piano reduction by Kenneth Cooper -- Kuckuck (The cuckoo) / J. R. Zumsteeg ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Contemporary. Who has seen the wind ([text by] Christina Rossetti) ; Long, long ago ([text] anonymous) ; Where go the boats ([text] by Robert Louis Stevenson) / Carlisle Floyd -- Folk music. Yemma n'amo! (Song of honor): Akan song from Ghana / E. Amo ; transcribed, translated and edited by Nicholas M. England -- Kyia me o! (Greetings): Akan song from Ghana / transcribed, translated and edited by Nicholas M. England -- Mary, come at noon: Flemish / edited and translated by Pandora Hopkins ; De Minnebode (The messenger): Flemish -- Posakala mama da me zeni (Mother thinks that I should marry): Bulgaria / edited and translated by Theodore Grame -- Dans ma main droite (In my right hand): Quebec / translated by Leeman Perkins. |
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v. 1, pt. 8 (Vocal). Pre-Renaissance. Mai ist wonniglich entsprossen (The lovely month of May) / Anonymous ; transcribed into modern notation and translated by Gustave Reese -- Quand je vois l'hiver retourner (Easy life in winter) / Colin Muset ; transcribed into modern notation and translated by Gustave Reese -- Renaissance. In dulci jubilo / Michael Praetorius, Musae Sionae IX (1611) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Hubert Creekmore -- Dies est laetitiae (Day of gladness) / Anonymous (14th century), 2 voice setting from Trier Stadtsbib. Cod. 516/724 (1482) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Non podrio anar plus mau (This can't get worse than before) / Anonymous, from Chansons nouvelles en langaige provensal (printed between 1518 and 1530) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Hubert Creekmore -- Verbum caro factum est (Word in body softly fold) / Anonymous, Trier Stadtsbib. Cod. 516/724 (1482) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, stanza 1 translated by Charles Canfield Brown, stanza 2-3 by John Mason Neale (1853) -- Vo lodar mai sempre (In praise of fortune) / Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Balletti a tre voci (1594) ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- La mia gentil signora (My lady dances) / Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Balletti a tre voci (1594) ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Classic. Der Nachbar (Friend or foe?) / Franz Josef Haydn ; translated by Anne Grossman -- Romantic. Round dance / Tchaikovsky ; translation by Anne Grossman -- The goat ; The rooster / Gretchaninov ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Der Schneider Kakadu (The tailor cockatoo) / Wenzel Muller ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Fruhlingslied (Spring song) / Felix Mendelssohn ; translation by Anne Grossman -- Contemporary. Homer's woe (Rounds for treble voices) / Jack Beeson -- Folk music. The bear's own song: American Indian / transcribed and edited by Helen H. Roberts -- Kinighos pou kinighouse (The hunter): Greek folk song from Skopelos / collected and transcribed by Ellen Frye, edited and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Wee Willie Gray: Scottish / [words by] Robert Burns, edited by Pandora Hopkins -- O, rattlin', roarin' Willie: Scottish / [words by] Robert Burns, edited by Pandora Hopkins -- Stone pounding: Jamaican / transcribed by Helen H. Roberts ; edited by T. Grame -- One August morn: Jamaican / transcribed by Helen H. Roberts ; edited by T. Grame -- Kazoe uta (Counting song): Japanese folk song / translated by Nicholas M. England -- Pa'am haya (Once there was a little boy): Israeli folk song, Zemer am / edited and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Yesh li machat (I have a needle): Israeli folk song, Zemer am / edited and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Ay-li-lu-li, num tsipor (Ayliluli, sleep my bird): Israeli folk song, Zemer am / edited and translated by Nicholas M. England -- Dodo musholo!: Venda song / collected and transcribed by John Blacking ; edited and translated by Nicholas M. England. |
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v. 3, pt. 1 (Rhythms). Vocal. Renaissance. Personent hodie (Celebrate joyously) / Anonymous (14th century) from Piaei Cantiones (1582) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Charles Canfield Brown -- Nun ist es Zeit (Now is the time) / melody by Joachim a Burck from Geistliche Lieder (1575) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Chares Canfield Brown, text by Ludwig Helmbold -- Dela la riviere (Look beyond the river) / Anonymous (late 15th century), Paris Bibl. nat. Ms. Fr. 12744 ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Homo quidam Rex nobilis (A monarch rich) / Anonymous from Piae Cantiones (1582) ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Non podrio anar plus mau (This can't get worse than before) / Anonymous, from Chansons nouvelles en langaige provensal (printed between 1518 and 1530) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Hubert Creekmore -- Omnis mundus (All the world) / Anonymous (14th century?) from Piae Cantiones (1582) ; edited by Noah Greenberg, English version by Charles Canfield Brown -- O si scires gloriam (If your heart sinks in distress) / Anonymous from Piae Cantiones (1582), Stanza 4 of "Scribere proposui" ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Le Roi Englois (The English king) / Anonymous (ca. 1500), Bayeux Chansonnier ; edited by Noah Greenberg, translated by Hubert Creekmore -- De tempore vernali cantio (Spring song) / Anonymous, from Piae Cantiones (1582) ; edited and translated by Gustave Reese -- Contemporary. The owl and the nightingale / David Maves ; [words by] Kay Maves -- The counting game / Belgarian -- Folk music. West African rhythm complex: Ghana / transcribed by Nicholas M. England from various Ghanaian songs -- Yemma n'amo! (Song of honor): Akan song from Ghana, E. Amo / transcribed, translated and edited by Nicholas M. England -- Kyia me o! (Greetings): Akan song from Ghana, traditional / transcribed, translated and edited by Nicholas M. England -- Karuk first curing song: American Indian / transcribed and edited by Helen H. Roberts -- Dance of the deer: Yaqui / edited by Theodore Grame -- Dhikr: Tunisian / edited by Theodore Grame -- Song of saint Sidi Abdul-Qader al-Jilali: Tunisian / edited by Theodore Grame -- Instrumental. Pre-Renaissance. Saltarello: 14th century / transcribed by Gustave Reese -- Danse: 13th century / transcribed by Gustave Reese -- Stantipes: 13th century / transcribed by Gustave Reese -- La septime estampie real (The seventh royal estampie): 13th century / transcribed by Gustave Reese -- Contemporary. Changing meters ; Imitations / Michael White. |
| General note | Project began through a grant from the U.S. Office of Education to the Juillard School of Music, New York, to research music suitable for use in grades kindergarten through six. |
| General note | Instrumental v.3-4 includes parts. |