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[LUTE] Re: Sigh No More Ladies

Matteo Turri
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:34:54 -0700

I'm puzzled.

Actually, it seems that there IS a setting by Robert Jones.

I just stumbled upon Naxos' new releases and the CD "Music for Shakespear's 
Theatre" contains the song "Sigh no more ladies" by Robert Jones.

You can listen to it here:

http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=544449

And you can compare it to the setting by Ford:

http://www.theclassicalshop.net/details06MP3.asp?CNumber=SDL%20409

I don't understand. A song with that title it's not in the Song Books by 
Jones - see their whole content here:

http://kulturserver-bayern.de/home/harald-lillmeyer/Texte/Downloads/Downloads.html
 

and it's not cited in most recent edition of the Grove online.

Peter, if you are really interested in the setting of Jones, I would suggest 
you to contact the artists of the Naxos CD, the lutenist Dorothy Linell (she 
has a site on the web) or the tenor Gerald Place to ask them for the source.

Let me (us) know. I'm very curious.





On Monday 14 April 2008 12:30:46 Matteo turri wrote:
> Actually, the setting is by Thomas Ford.
>
> It is found in a setting for three voices in MUS. 736-8 at Christ
> Church, Oxford, which appears to be an adaptation of a solo song - see
>
> http://library.chch.ox.ac.uk/music/page.php?set=Mus.+736--8
>
> There is a recording of the song in the CD "Songs and Dances from
> Shakespeare", by the broadside Band (Saydisc CD-SDL409).
>
> The CD notes say that the MS version was printed in Gibbon, John
> Murray, 1930, The Melody and the Lyric.  The notes also make reference
> to a restoration of Peter Warlock published in 1925.
>
> >----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----
> >Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Datum: 14.04.2008 11:54
> >An: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> >Betreff: [LUTE] Sigh No More Ladies
> >
> >Dear All,
> >
> >I've been asked to play Sigh No More Ladies for a production of Much
> >Ado. Isn't there a version by Robert Jones?
> >
> >Does anyone have a copy of the music that they might be able to send
>
> me?
>
> >Or can someone point me in the right direction?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Peter
> >
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