Time cruel time
from Unquiet Thoughts: English lute songs from the Golden Age by Mignarda
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Tyme cruell tyme, John Danyel (c. 1564 – 1626)
“Tyme cruell tyme” is a text by Samuel Danyel, brother of the less famous but masterful composer, John Danyel, who supplied the music and a few variants in the text. Danyel published his only book, Songs for the Lvte Viol and Voice, in 1606, and his writing for the lute is frequently as challenging as Dowland’s, with bits of bold dissonance, imitation and some chromaticism. In our recording, the lute accompaniment is transposed from c-minor fingering a-minor, which is equally challenging in terms of the lute's tuning, but the transposition results in no net loss of Danyel's music and results in the cantus placed in a range that communicates Samuel Daniel’s beautiful text to better advantage. The somewhat jarring dissonances were intended by the composer.
“Tyme cruell tyme” is a text by Samuel Danyel, brother of the less famous but masterful composer, John Danyel, who supplied the music and a few variants in the text. Danyel published his only book, Songs for the Lvte Viol and Voice, in 1606, and his writing for the lute is frequently as challenging as Dowland’s, with bits of bold dissonance, imitation and some chromaticism. In our recording, the lute accompaniment is transposed from c-minor fingering a-minor, which is equally challenging in terms of the lute's tuning, but the transposition results in no net loss of Danyel's music and results in the cantus placed in a range that communicates Samuel Daniel’s beautiful text to better advantage. The somewhat jarring dissonances were intended by the composer.
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Tyme cruell tyme canst thou subdue that brow,
That conquers all but thee, and thee too stayes:
As if shee were exempt from scieth or bow,
From Loue and yeares vnsubiect to decayes.
Or art thou growne in league with those faire eyes,
That they might help thee to consume our dayes,
Or dost thou loue her for her cruelties,
Being mercilesse lyke thee that no man wayes?
Then doe so still although shee makes no steeme,
Of dayes nor yeares, but lets them run in vaine:
Hould still thy swift wing'd hours that wondring
Seeme to gase on her, euen to turne back againe.
And doe so still although she nothing cares,
Doe as I doe, loue her although vnkinde,
Hould still, yet O I feare at vnawares,
Thou wilt beguile her though thou seem'st so kinde.
That conquers all but thee, and thee too stayes:
As if shee were exempt from scieth or bow,
From Loue and yeares vnsubiect to decayes.
Or art thou growne in league with those faire eyes,
That they might help thee to consume our dayes,
Or dost thou loue her for her cruelties,
Being mercilesse lyke thee that no man wayes?
Then doe so still although shee makes no steeme,
Of dayes nor yeares, but lets them run in vaine:
Hould still thy swift wing'd hours that wondring
Seeme to gase on her, euen to turne back againe.
And doe so still although she nothing cares,
Doe as I doe, loue her although vnkinde,
Hould still, yet O I feare at vnawares,
Thou wilt beguile her though thou seem'st so kinde.
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from Unquiet Thoughts: English lute songs from the Golden Age,
released April 10, 2021
Donna Stewart, voice
Ron Andrico, lute
Donna Stewart, voice
Ron Andrico, lute
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Mignarda Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Mignarda specializes in thoughtful programming illuminating the vibrant mingling of renaissance music & poetry. Noted for awakening modern audiences to an appreciation for historical music, their work encompasses concertizing, teaching & recording, with 17 critically-acclaimed CDs, a series of 16 music editions, scholarly articles, reviews and the internationally-popular blog, Unquiet Thoughts. ... more
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