Tobias Hume (c1579-1645): Passion & Division

The First Part of Ayres - Captain Humes Musicall Humors (1605) 00:00 Loves Pastime (no 103) 06:54 A Jigge (no 88) 08:58 Now I Come (no 28) 11:13 Rossamond (no 35) 15:17 The Duke of Holstones Almayne (no 6) 20:35 A Souldiers Resolution (no 11) 25:49 I am Melancholy (no 106) 32:55 Tickell, tickell (no 34) 35:10 A French Ayre (no 61) 36:46 Deth (no 12) 44:16 Life (no 13) 46:07 The Spirit of Gambo (no 4) 49:52 Tinckeldum, twinckeldum (no 22) 51:51 Captain Humes Pavan (no 46) 1:00:54 A Souldiers Galliard (no 48) 1:02:38 Loves Farewell (no 47) Susanne Heinrich, viola da gamba Hume’s introduction to his 1605 publication does flatter his patron on the first page in the usual way, but his address to the ‘understanding reader’ sets him apart from his contemporaries who are so skilled at conforming to the concept of honey-worded prefaces: ‘These are mine own Phansies … which if thou dost dislike, let me see thine.’ This could be taken as sheer arrogance, espe