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16th-century songs

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The list 16th-century songs includes Mary Hamilton, Deck The Halls, Greensleeves, Piæ Cantiones and Cailín Óg a Stór. The list consists of 9 members and 4 sublists.

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    Mary Hamilton

    Song by Joan Baez
    Overview: "Mary Hamilton" and "The Fower Maries" (fower is Scots for "four") are two common names for a famous, apparently fictional sixteenth-century ballad from Scotland.
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    Greensleeves

    Song by Henry VIII
    Overview: "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, over a ground either of the form called a romanesca; of its slight variant, the passamezzo antico; of the passamezzo antico in its verses and ...
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    Deck The Halls

    Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Overview: "Deck the Halls" or "Deck the Hall" (which is the original version of the lyrics) is a traditional Christmas, yuletide, and New Years' carol. The melody is Welsh dating back to the sixteenth century, and ...
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    Ding Dong Bell

    English language nursery rhyme
    Ding Dong Bell
    Overview: "Ding Dong Bell" or "Ding Dong Dell" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12853.
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    Unser liebe Fraue vom kalten Brunnen

    Fictional Landsknecht song (German)
    Unser liebe Fraue vom kalten Brunnen
    Overview: Unser liebe Fraue vom kalten Brunnen ("Our Dear Virgin from the Cold Well") is a fictional Landsknecht song that was first published in 1556, in the last volume of Frische teutsche Liedlein, a five volume ...
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    If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
    Overview: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of proverbs, which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most ...
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    Now Is the Month of Maying

    song composed by Thomas Morley
    Overview: "Now is the month of maying" is one of the most famous of the English balletts (a light dancelike part song similar to a madrigal, frequently with a 'fa-la-la' chorus). It was written by Thomas Morley ...
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    Piæ Cantiones

    Collection of late medieval Latin songs
    Piæ Cantiones
    Overview: Piae Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum (in English Pious ecclesiastical and school songs of the ancient bishops) is a collection of late medieval Latin songs first published ...
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    Overview: Cailín Óg a Stór (Irish for "O Darling Young Girl") is a traditional Irish melody, originally accepted for publication in March 1582. It may be the source of Pistol's cryptic line in Henry V, Caleno ...
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