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I copied the voice and bass parts from one of the original 17th century English editions attributed to Henry Purcell. The lute and Baroque guitar parts are my creations mostly to test the software and have a bit of fun creating WAV files of arranged music with lots of rolled chords. Adding a lute part is not too far-fetched, since Arabella Hunt, the famous English singer and lutenist, performed that very song on her instrument. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on her:
For many years Arabella Hunt was employed at the royal court as a singer and lutenist. She was well thought of by Queen Mary, and taught singing to Princess Anne. Later Queen Mary gave her an annual pension of £100.
John Hawkins tells with great detail how the queen, after listening to some of Henry Purcell's music performed by Hunt, John Gostling, and the composer, abruptly asked her to sing a popular Scottish ballad, Cold and Raw, which she did, accompanying herself on the lute. Purcell, according to Hawkins, was "not a little nettled" by the queen's preference, and when he composed a birthday ode for Queen Mary in 1692 he used Cold and Raw as the repeated bass line for the "May her blest example" movement.
Mrs. Hunt's voice was said by a contemporary to be like the pipe of a bullfinch; she was also credited with an 'exquisite hand on the lute.' She was admired and respected by the best wits of the time; John Blow and Purcell wrote difficult music for her; John Hughes, the poet, was her friend; William Congreve wrote a long irregular ode on 'Mrs. Arabella Hunt singing,' and after her death penned an epigram under a portrait of her sitting on a bank singing. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabella_Hunt)
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