date : 1585?
main copiest : Robert Dow the younger(1554 - 1588)
detail date : please see DIAMM site
Finally, at the end of this collection of manuscripts, there are three canons divided into five parts.
Mus-984-986 --- "La ganba" (Vincenzo Ruffo)
Mus-987 --- "Trinitas in Vnitate" (Vincenzo Ruffo)
Mus-988 --- "Hei down sing ye nowe aftr me" (Anonymous)
Now, Dow attributes the authorship of the remaining two songs, except for one of unknown authorship, to Francesco Mocheni, who was a publisher in Milan in the 16th century and not the composer of these songs.
The real author is Vincenzo Ruffo, Mocheni published Ruffo's book "Capricci in musica a tre voci" in 1564, which includes these two pieces.
No.125 (Anonymous) "Hei down sing ye nowe aftr me"
The upper voice is the regular do-re-mi-fa-sol-a.
The bass part is in a four-voice equal degree canon.
Hei, down, d. d. d, sing ye nowe aftr me:
la mi sol re fa, so shall we well agree.
take hede to yor tyme & rest as you finde;
the rownd & the square must be tunde in their kinde.
o well song my ladds I saie
we ar as good by night as by daie.
la mi sol re fa. let vs be mery here as long tyme as we may,
for tyme truly passeth away.
Hey ho. hey ho. hey ho. hey down d. down.
http://aeolianconsort.chakin.com/Dow_partbooks.htm#No_120
