Pastime with Good Company

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Composer:Tudor, King Henry VIII (1491-1547), English
Lyricist:unattributed, possibly the composer
First Line:Pastyme with good companye
Genre:Renaisance, song
Instruments:Piano, originally lute
Submitter:Alberga, Cyril N
Email:calberga (e-mail)
Arranger:Wooldridge, H. Ellis
Transcribed from Chappell's "Early English Music", 1893
edition, re-printed in facsimily in 1961. With regard to the
arrangement, the editor & Arranger writes-
The above arrangement contains in substance most of the king's
counterpoint; but an inner part has been added to fill up the harmony
which is often rather bare. Consecutive fifths also, which were not
considered faults at the date when the king learned music, have been
removed from all the cadences.