Salacious Chansons and other Renaissance Ribaldry - New York Ensemble for Early Music's Gleemen

1 Et Leves lo Gambe, Jennette 01:26
2 Nostre Chamberiere, si Malade elle est 01:23
3 Je Mefie en Tout le Monde 01:10
4 Je le Lairay Puisqu'il Me Bat 02:49
5 Frapes Petit Coup, Petit Jehan mon amy 01:53
6 Le Dolleur de Mon Con, Pere 02:23
7 Mon Amy m'Avoit Promis 01:45
8 England, Be Glad 01:26
9 Pastime with Good Company 01:25
10 Green Groweth the Holly 02:56
11 I Have Been a Foster 02:36
12 Helas Madame 00:52
13 Tapster, Drinker, Fill Another Ale 00:50
14 Blow Thy Horn, Hunter 01:59
15 Ah Robin, Gentle Robin 02:11
16 Be Peace! Ye Make Me Spill My Ale 02:09
17 Up I Arose in Verno Tempore 01:10
18 Hoyda, Hoyda, Jolly Rutterkin 03:34
19 Now Let Us Sing 01:49
20 My Heartly Service (The Plough Song) 06:10
21 The Gowans Are Gay 02:13

The songs on this record, though apparently so straightforward and informal, represent a major musical revolution at the turn of the 16th century that quickly spread to all corners of Europe. The all-pervasive antecedent of the style was the secular Burgundian chanson, usually arranged for solo voice and a few instruments, highly contrapuntal, detailed, delicate and refined, deliberately conservative in an attempt to adhere to medieval forms and textures. When the interest of the finest trained composers of the late fifteenth century was stimulated toward popular song as a possible starting-point for serious music, their compositions dealt the final deathblow to those medieval forms, and ultimately built the foundations for modern tonality and sonority.