On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 17:38, Alain Veylit
<[1][email protected]> wrote:
Just imagine if J.S. Bach was credited by a contemporary publisher
with
a song entitled "Once, twice, thrice, I Julia tried", would that
raise
an eye brow?? Just curious: did Mozart compose anything we'd
consider
"bawdy" or tavern material?? Or other composers, besides Lasso??
'Leck mich im Arsch' comes to mind.
[2]http://mentalfloss.com/article/55247/3-dirty-songs-mozart
On 08/09/2018 10:06 PM, howard posner wrote:
>> On Aug 9, 2018, at 9:15 PM, Alain Veylit
<[3][email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Like Henry Purcell, who seems to have found his name attached
to a very large number of bawdy songs in 17th century England, if I
recall correctly.
> Is there any reason to think he didn't write the music for all
those catches? I'm not aware that his authorship has ever been
questioned.
>
> He lived in an age of relaxed sexual mores and worked a great deal
in the theater.
>
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