This album, titled 'Royal Delight', is divided into two CDs, 'The King's Delight' and 'The Queen's Delight', both featuring 17th-century ballads for voice and violin band.
Compositional Technique
The song 'Now, o now, I needs must part' by Dowland/Robinson explores themes of parting, despair, and enduring love despite absence, using the imagery of joy once fled and hope gone.
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The song 'The Little Barly-Corne' personifies barley-corn (referring to ale) as a remedy for various woes, from making a widow laugh to curing diseases.
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The ballad 'Blew-cap for me' features a young woman who rejects suitors from various European countries—French, Irish, Spanish, and German—before finally choosing a Scotsman.
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The ballad 'I Smell a Rat' uses the recurring phrase 'I Smell a Rat' to comment on perceived corruption and societal ills, such as injustice, greed, and moral decay.
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