Cries Of London Research Articles

Wheatley's "Cries of London"

Wheatley's "Cries of London"

RICHARD DEERING'S FANCIES FOR VIOLS

IT WAS Dr. Charles Burney who dismissed the music of Richard Deering with the remark that it was sober, innocent, psalmodic, dry, and uninteresting. The nature of that opinion leads one to suspect that it was based largely on Deering's Cantica Sacra, but even these are neither so dry nor so entirely uninteresting as the verdict of the learned historian would imply. Most subsequent writers on music were quite willing to let the matter rest till Sir Frederick Bridge found a place for Deering among his Twelve Good Musicians. To Bridge we owe the publication of Deering's motets and of his fancy for viols and voices on London cries. Of Deering as a writer of instrumental music little has been written, save the lists of his works given by Jeffrey Pulver in his Biographical Dictionary of Old English Music and more recently by Ernst Hermann Meyer in his excellent book, Die mehrstimmige Spielmusik des 17. Jahrhunderts in Nordund Mitteleuropa. Even Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music devotes no special article to Deering, though a general article on the fancy is included.

London Cries

London Cries

Wheatley's 'London cries'

Wheatley's 'London cries'

The Musical Cries of London in Shakespeare's Time

Dr. Wheatley, in an article on London in the time of Shakespeare, says, “The Cries in the streets were much the same as those recorded in the 15th Century.” (From “London Luckpenny”). He goes on to mention particularly the Cry of “What d'ye lacke?” and Rock Sampire, Old Boots, Buy a Mat, Small Coal, Green Brooms. Also he mentions the Cries outside the prison doors for the “poor women in the dark dungeons,” and “Bread and Meat for the tender mercy of God to the poor prisoners of the Marshalsea.” He would have been much interested in the complete collection of these old Cries, which are preserved to us in the works of three great musicians who were contemporaries of Shakespeare.

London Cries

London Cries Get access H. P. L. H. P. L. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s10-VI, Issue 153, 1 December 1906, Page 434, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-VI.153.434b Published: 01 December 1906

London Cries

London Cries

London cries

London cries

London cries

London cries Get access Robert Pierpoint Robert Pierpoint Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s10-VI, Issue 144, 29 September 1906, Page 249, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-VI.144.249d Published: 29 September 1906

‘The cries of London’

‘The cries of London’

Old London cries

Old London cries

London cries

London cries

London cries: with six charming children

London cries: with six charming children