A Trove of Chansons on the Ukulele

Description of book

A selection of beginner to advanced chansons from the Renaissance (16th century) adapted for the Ukulele or Renaissance Guitar, using musical notation and tablature.

Ancient music written for the modern ukulele ….. None!

Playing ancient music on the ukulele ….. Absolutely!

This collection of beginner to advanced chansons from the Renaissance (16th century) are adapted and arranged for the Ukulele or Renaissance Guitar, using both modern musical notation and tablature. The pieces in this book are ordered by composer and in roughly the same order as the original books. When playing a soprano, concert or tenor ukulele, linear tuning is required (i.e. using a low G string). Notes about the composers are at the back of this book.

Contents:

Chansons (Adrian Le Roy)
“Pour m’eslongner”
“Je ne veux plus à mon mal consentir”
“J’ay cherché la science”
“Oyez tous amoureux”
“Mon dieu vostre pitié”
“Un advocat dit a sa femme”
“Jean de Lagny”
“Pour un plaisir que si peu dure”
“La la la je ne l’ose dire”
Chansons (Gregoire Brayssing)
“Voulant honneur”
“Un mesnagier vieillard recru d’ahan”
Chansons (Guillaume Morlaye)
“Ce qui m’est deu et ordonné”
“Regretz, soucy et peine”
“Je ne sçay pas comment”
“Mais pourquoy”
“Si j’ay du bien”

Recordings of the pieces played at various tempos are posted on SoundCloud (search for A Trove of Chansons on the Ukulele or Ancient Music for Ukulele).

Please check out the other books in this series “Ancient Music for Ukulele” by visiting our website (ancientmusic4ukulele.com) and/or Facebook page.