On the topic of music and feet , I am grateful to my frient Eric Lee for alerting me to a new CD which celebrates Old London Town Cries
E.G.V. Runting back in the 1930s used to write essays published in the Chiropodist under "Jottings From an Old Chiro". I one particular copy he mentions being intvited to attent a concert to hear a piece of music by Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625). His Cryes of London, was written for five voices and five viols, and makes use of the street cries of hawkers and vendors in London in his time. One was for a corn-cutter. Gibbons went on from latter day jingles to become a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, which he served as an organist and to which he later added the position of organist at Westminster Abbey. He wrote music for the Church of England, madrigals, consort music and keyboard works.
The CD is entitled "The Cries of London" by Theatre of Voices and Fretwork and is on the Harmonica Mundi label. The two pieces which contain the cries are:
Street Cries I & II by Orlando Gibbons
The City Cries by Richard Derring
Some of the cries employed by the various artisans are pretty raucous and crude, but a wonderful piece of social history set to the music of the time.
Here is a review of the works
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...i-ent_arts-hed
What say you?
Cameron