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The music backing these clips is from Gallimaufry Elizabethan & Jacobean music/or the Court the Country, the Playhouse & the Streets.
It is made by Passamezzo, a dynamic ensemble dedicated to the performance of Early Music in an accessible, educational and historically informed context.
For more information about the consort and for news of concerts and other events, please visit their website: www.passamezzo.co.uk
Or contact them at info@passamezzo.co.uk or at 94, St. John's Wood Terrace, London NW8 6PY
The group includes Phil Darke, Paddy Gormley, Kate Harding, Eliot Levin, Paul Lewis, Verity Mitchell, Tony ToIler and Lisa Westerhout.
Copyright Notice: This digitally recorded compilation with its notes is copyright, and is used under license.
It may not be broadcast, copied, hired out, publicly performed or stored in a retrieval system separately to the video it accompanies, without written permission of the copyright holders.
They list all the background to all the music on their CD sleeve notes; which I will not reproduce - you'll have to buy their excellent CD @ £20
'GaIlimaufry', n. Heterogeneous mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, ridiculous medley, 1551' OED
Their gallimaufry is made up of theatre songs, broadside ballads, street cries, consort songs, divisions, masque music, dance tunes, italianate fantasias and a devotional song.
The music for the Green Dragon excerpt is particularly interesting: the Trader's Medley to Sellenger's Round is a collection of street cries wish bawdy undertones.
Turner's Dish of Lenten Stuff to the Friar & the Nun: is a ballad of great interest as it provides information about the playhouses (the Globe, the Swan, the Red Bull and the Curtain), and actors of Jacobean London: the 'fat fool' is William Rowley of Prince Henry's Company, who 'moved like one of the great porridge tubs going to the Counter; the 'lean fool' is Thomas Greene, chief actor of the Queen's Servants at the Red Bull in Clerkenwell; John Shank joined the King's Men (Shakespeare's company) and was well known for his 'jigs'.
The ballad also contains street cries and anecdotes
The Common Cries of London Town
Some go up street, some go down.
With Turner's Dish of Snuff, or a Gallymaufry
My masters sit attend you,
If mirth you love to heare:
And 'twill tell you what they cry
In London all the yeare.
I'll please you if lean,
I will not be too long,
I pray you all attend a while
And lissen to my song
Old shoes foe new Broomes,
The broome man he doth sing:
For hats or caps or buskins,
Or any ould Pooch rings,
Ripe Chery ripe,
The coster-monger cries,
Pippins fine, or Peares,
Another after hies
That's the fat foole of the Curtin,
And the leane foole of the Bull:
Since Shanke did learne to sing his rimes,
He is counted but a gull.
The players of the Bank side,
The round Globe and the Swan
Will teach you idle tricks of love,
But the Bull wilt play the man.
The world is ful of thredbare poets,
That live upon their pen:
But they will write so eloquent,
They are such witty men.
And thus I do conclude,
Wishing both health and peace,
To those that are laid in their bed,
And cannot sleepe foe fleas.
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