Thirty-three folk songs, forty-three rounds, seven ballads, five shanties, nine spirituals and plantation songs, and six madrigals, making 103 songs in all, among them several two-part folk songs and eleven songs for three or four parts. A well-balanced mixture – light-hearted and pensive, serious and jolly, loving and bantering, this collection represents many streams of songs in English, from easy folk tunes and rounds to madrigals and other part-songs. A core of well-known songs is…