ABSTRACT

This chapter summarizes full analysis of the tunes and the concordances that are available elsewhere, and discusses the main groups of tunes within the list and their wider implications. Many suggest an association with the dance, and five tunes are found in an early index of ninety-one dances copied in c.1500, perhaps at Gresley in Derbyshire; one of them, 'Al floures of the brome', was even known to the Welsh poet Lewys Glyn Cothi as a dance. Ballad tunes comprise another significant group of titles in the Lleweni list. Six recur in Clement Robinson's popular ballad anthology A Handefull of Pleasant Delights, while 'Labandalashot' is prescribed for the six-verse 'Oh mighty Jove, some pity take' in the play Misogonus, and was later taken as the basis of a Galliard in the lute book belonging to a pupil of Thomas Dallis.