Edition
Published by
Mercury Music
[USA]
, 1947
; in Catches for three, four, and five voices
(15 p.)
Ref. :
352-00108
(1 p.)
Editor or author of the restitution:
Lawton, Edward
Type of material:
Full score
Description
Text in:
English
Epoque:
18th century
(1700-1749)
Genre-Style-Form:
Secular ; Catch ; Round ; Chasse
Mood of the piece:
lively
Type of Choir:
unspecified voicing (3 unspecified voices )
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
2
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
A
Tonality:
A major
Musicological Sources:
"The catches . . . have been drawn from two eightenth-century books: 'A Collection of Catches, Canons, Glees, Duets &c,' ca. 1780, and 'Apollonian Harmony,' ca. 1790." ; The composer is written as "[Edmund?] Baildon" in this edition which seems to indicate that only "Baildon" was indicated in the original source and "Edmund" is speculative. New Grove's Dictionary (1st edition) identifies Joseph Baildon as the composer of