Calls of street vendors involving a melodic motif have often been used in music, chiefly in the Quodlibet. Well-known English examples are fantasias for voices and instruments by Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Deering.
Street cries
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Street cries are the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services in open-air markets. The custom of hawking led many vendors to create custom melodic phrases. Many of these street cries were cataloged in large collections or incorporated into larger musical works, preserving them from oblivion.
Further reading
- "Plagues, Fairs, and Street Cries: Sounding out Society and Space in Early Modern London." by E Wilson — Modern Language Studies, 1995 Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer, 1995), pp. 1–42 doi:10.2307/3195370 JSTOR
- Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns" D Garrioch — Urban History, 2003 (2003), 30: 5–25 abstract
- Images of the outcast : the urban poor in the Cries of London by Sean Shesgreen New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002. ISBN 0813531519
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