'A Newe Ballade of a Louer Extollinge his Ladye', published in 1568 by William Griffith, is unusual because it contains a printed melody, ‘Damon and Pithias’. For many years it was seen as the epitome of printers’ incompetence when it came to publishing music. This article suggests that the melody has much in common with other vernacular song tunes of the time, including metrical psalms and thanksgiving songs. It provides possible alternative explanations for the incorrectly rendered musical notation, including the suggestion that the mistake was not necessarily made by the printer himself. It surveys other musical anomalies of the period, to argue that the presence of music on the broadside indicates that Griffith was willing to experiment with new genres. These combined aspects of the most popular vernacular songs of the day in order to appeal to a new market of musically-literate amateurs.

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仅仅是哗众取宠？音乐和都铎式廉价印刷品

威廉·格里菲斯 (William Griffith) 于 1568 年出版的《歌颂他的夫人的新歌谣》(A Newe Ballade of a Louer Extollinge his Ladye) 很不寻常，因为它包含一首印刷的旋律“达蒙和皮提亚斯”(Damon and Pithias)。多年来，它被视为印刷商在出版音乐方面无能的缩影。这篇文章表明，旋律与当时的其他白话歌曲曲调有很多共同之处，包括格律诗篇和感恩节歌曲。它为错误呈现的乐谱提供了可能的替代解释，包括错误不一定是打印机自己造成的建议。它调查了这一时期的其他音乐异常现象，认为宽边音乐的存在表明格里菲斯愿意尝试新的流派。