The Ballet version got a reworking to make it into the Christmas tune. The Ballet original is in 6/8 time which is different from the carol and the contemporary morris dance tune, and the original has some rough passages which would need reworking.
Wayne > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: November 30, 2015 at 11:41:41 AM EST > To: Wayne <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Blessed be that Maid Marie > > Wayne is right - it's the staynes morris tune. I asked myself the same > question when I was arranging that carol for a Christmas concert a > couple of years ago. Arrangers of the tune often give the impression > that a setting of the song is to be found in the Ballet manuscript, > which is not the case. I suspect that very few of them will have seen > the original. For the purposes of accompanying a choir it would be much > better in my opinion to intabulate the setting they are working from - > the Ballet setting is unlikely to be a perfect fit. > Best wishes, > Denys > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: Wayne <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 30 November 2015, 16:09 > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Blessed be that Maid Marie > Would that be the Staynes Morris on page 91 ? > Wayne >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Edward Martin <[1][email protected]> >> Date: November 30, 2015 at 10:53:51 AM EST >> To: lute net <[2][email protected]> >> Subject: [LUTE] Blessed be that Maid Marie >> >> Dear ones, >> I have been asked by a professional choir to play along with a >> Christmas Carol, Blessed be that Maid Marie. There are modern > choral >> arrangements of this piece, and they all attribute that it is from > the >> William Ballet Lute Book. Here is a link to the book in digital >> format, from a library in Dublin, of the Ballet Lute Book: >> [1][3]http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/content/1297/pdf/1297.pdf >> I looked through it, and I could not find a piece with this title, > and >> it is also not listed in Julia Craig-McFeely's thesis, and she > doesn't >> list any piece by that name in any English source. I looked at the >> pices in the book, and could not find any of the tablatures that > seem >> to match the melody of this piece. >> Allan Alexander did a beautiful adaptation years ago with variations >> (published in the LSA November 2004 Holiday newsletter, page 44), > but I >> am unable to find the original. >> Does this piece exist in the book under a different title? >> Any assistance is appreciated! >> Happy luting, >> ed >> >> -- >> >> References >> >> 1. [4]http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/content/1297/pdf/1297.pdf >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/content/1297/pdf/1297.pdf > 4. http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/content/1297/pdf/1297.pdf > 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
