Barley-break (violin cello duo)

Title: Barley-break, from My Ladye Nevell’s Virginal Booke (c. 1591)

Composer: William Byrd, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin and Cello

Printout: 2 pages

Note: This delightful, rollicking piece has may of the unusual harmonic cross-relations that are ubiquitous to the music of Renaissance England. Byrd was one of the most prominent English composers of his Rea.