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The Huntes upp is a sixteenth century ballad attributed to William Gray.

Background

The hunt is up was commonly associated to any song that would be sung in the morning. Shakespeare employs it as such in Romeo and Juliet (act iii, sc. 5).^[1]

Description

There is a keyboard version in C major by William Byrd. The work is included in two of the most important collections of keyboard music of the Renaissance, My Ladye Nevells Booke and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, which contains a selection of Byrd's keyboard pieces, was completed in 1591. The Huntes upp is believed, on stylistic grounds, to be one of the earlier pieces in the collection

The piece has 11 variations on the songs The Hunt is Up and The Nine Muses. It is usually played on a harpsichord or piano and takes around 7 minutes.

Lyrics

The lyrics are:^[1]

The hunt is up, the hunt is up,
And it is a well nigh daye;
And Harry our King is gone hunting,
To bring his deere to baye.

The east is bright with morning light,
And darkness it is fled,
And the merie horn wakes up the morne
To leave his idle bed.

Beholde the skyes with golden dyes
Are glowing all around,
The grasse is greene, and so are the treene
All laughing at the sound.

The horses snort to be at the sport,
The dogges are running free,
The wooddes rejoyce at the mery noise
Of hey tantara tee ree!

The sunne is glad to see us clad,
All in our lustie greene,
And smiles in the skye as he riseth hye,
To see and to be seen.

Awake, all men, I say agen,
Be mery as you maye,
For Harry our King is gone hunting,
to bring his deere to baye.

References

^ ^a ^b John Payne Collier (1848). "Extracts from the registers of the Stationers company of works entered for publication between the gears 1557 and 1570. With notes and illustrations by John Payne Collier". Books.google.com.

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Music	"The Carman's Whistle" Great Service "Have with Yow to Walsingame" "The Huntes upp" Mass for Four Voices Mass for Five Voices My Ladye Nevells Booke "Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde" Ye Sacred Muses
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