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The Rowallan Manuscript pp 26-27(Edinburgh University Library, Laing III 487) vers 1615 - ( Ca 1615)
C'est certainement de la main de Sir William Mure of Rowallan qui composa des poèmes mis en musique. C'est pourquoi je chante très brièvement en introduction avant de jouer les paroles du titre qui s'adaptent si bien à l' air.
Scribe certainly Sir William Mure of Rowallan who composed poems set to music. These lute pieces might have lost words ...
It is the reason why I sing for a few seconds before the lute piece.

Transcribed by Wayne Cripps Lyre Music Publications/The Scottish Lute Ronn McFarlane Dorian Recordings/Mel Bay
Doigtés adaptés à l'original d'après Xavier Cauhépé " LES SECRETS DU LUTH " pièce N° 117 :
Le dernier accord est un accord de dominante sur tonique avec la tierce manquante d'où le doigté de substitution sur Si b.

Illustration : Daniel Maclise
Moore's Irish Melodies (The illustrated 1846 edition) :
Desmond's song :
" By the Feal's wave benighted,
No star in the skies,
To thy door by Love lighted,
I first saw those eyes.
Some voice whisper'd over me,
As the threshold I crost,
There was ruin before me,
If I loved I was lost.
... But Woman's bright story
It told in her eyes ...
Beauty, born of the Graces,
Ranks next to Divine ! "

Luth Renaissance en sol de Stephen Murphy
Renaissance Lute in G by Stephen Murphy