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Who liveth so merry
composer
Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582-c1635)
from Songs of Four Voices in Deutromelia, 1609
author of text
Anonymous

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain

Recordings
Cover of 'How the world wags' (CDH55013)
How the world wags
The City Waites
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CDH55013  Helios (Hyperion's budget label)  
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The City Waites
Track 3 on CDH55013 [4'57] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
English
Who liveth so merry
This is one of Freeman’s Songs of Four Voices in Thomas Ravenscroft’s Deutromelia, published in 1609. The three spoken passages are from (respectively), Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem (Thomas Nashe, 1593), The Seven Deadly Sins of London (Thomas Dekker, 1606), and The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare).

from notes by Douglas Wootton © 1981

Track-specific metadata
Details for CDH55013 track 3
Artists
The City Waites
ISRC
GB-AJY-81-00803
Duration
4'57
Recording date
8 October 1980
Recording venue
Recording producer
Andrew Keener
Recording engineer
Tony Faulkner
Hyperion usage
  1. How the world wags – Social Music for a 17th-century Englishman (CDA66008)
    Disc 1 Track 3
    Release date: January 1988
    Deletion date: May 1999
    Superseded by CDH55013
  2. How the world wags (CDH55013)
    Disc 1 Track 3
    Release date: May 1999
    Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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