Piae Cantiones, published in 1582, is a collection of late medieval sacred and secular songs begging to be given performance, either as written, or perhaps in new settings. Three sacred tunes in
Forest Green was a folksong collected by the eminent composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, in 1903. It was quickly incorporated into the English Hymnal as accompaniment for O Little Town of
Solemn Thought is a nineteenth-century American tune using only the tones of the pentatonic scale. This practice is frequently observed in tunes of the shaped-note tradition. The solo instrument