Fraw Luddeley, fraw Luddeley (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2017-07-19)  CPDL #45511:         

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2017-07-19).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 162 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A semi-diplomatic edition, Modern clefs, ficta added.

General Information

Title: Fraw Luddeley, fraw Luddeley
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1540 in Teutsche Liedlein (Georg Forster), Volume 2, no. 19
Description: A comic song of a man who buy a spinning wheel to his wife.
from: Der ander theil Kurtzweiliger… ausg. G. Forster, 1540

Original text and translations

German text FRaw Luddeley, fraw Luddeley/  und warumb spint jr nit/ So hab ich doch kein rocken nit/  du loser bößwicht/ auß gieng der arm man/  bracht der frawen ein rocken hin/  dannoch span sie nit,  dannoch span sie nit.

English translation Lady Luddeley, lady Luddeley  Why are You not spinning? I have no spinningwheel  You fool.  And the poor man  went out and fethed his wife a spinningwheel  but still she did not spinn.