Tag: barley break

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  The Barelye Breake

  March 11, 2018

  Choral, Classical music, Keyboard, Piano music, Solo, Vocal

  barley break, Byrd

  If you’ve ever heard or sung in Thomas Morley’s madrigal Now is the month of maying, you may well have wondered –see the last verse – what on earth a ‘barley break’ is. The lyric tells us you play it, so that, I suppose, limits it to either a musical instrument or a game; and, given…