At 12:01 PM -0400 11/1/07, Stu McIntire wrote:
Thanks much for this history lesson. Regarding "Greensleeves", does this mean that it is always historically incorrect to perform it with the fifth note NOT lowered?
Hi, Stu. Of course not, but since we've all heard it sung both ways, I think it's useful to know how 16th century singers would have approached it. The crazy thing is that the raised note actually sounds more "modal" than the solmized version! I'd call it a sort of transitional melody that works both ways, with the raised C#s very tonal or the dorian C naturals more modal. But don't let theorists tell you how to perform anything!
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