Select English songs and dialogues of the 16th and 17th centuries. Book I; pp. 1-34

Select English Songs and Dialogues of the 16th and 17th centuries – is the first book of this series published in 1898 and written by Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch. He was a French musician, violinist, harpsichordist, gambist, lute player, musicologist and instrument maker who spent most of his working life in England and founded an instrument making workshop in Haslemer, Surrey. Arnold Dolmetsch was a leading figure in the revival of interest in early music in the 20th century. He is considered the founder of the movement of authentic performing. In Songs dating from the second and third quarter of the seventeenth century, the author paid great attention to those graces, divisions and changes in rhythm, which, according to the rules and conventions understood by everyone at that time, so changed the action of Music. Sometimes in the original, almost everything is written in full. In other cases, graces are indicated by signs; but usually English composers left these important details to the performer's ingenuity and taste. This publication is for practical use and author has tried to keep it as simple as possible for today's musicians to understand.