Re: [abcusers] Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thank you both for the info. Frank, I'll try to track down the Runge or Naylor books. We (Trebuchet) are providing all the music for a production of As You Like It, and are currently exploring what's out there for accompanying the songs. Come to the open air theatre season at Gawsworth Hall near Macclesfield, England, 22-26th June, to find out what we come up with :-) Cheers S -- Steve Mansfield Contact me off-list using lists AT lesession DOT co DOT uk http://www.lesession.co.uk - abc music notation tutorial, the uk.music.folk newsgroup FAQ, and other goodies http://www.trebuchetmusic.co.uk - Trebuchet To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Steve Mansfield wrote: Come to the open air theatre season at Gawsworth Hall near Macclesfield, England, 22-26th June, to find out what we come up with :-) Would love to, but I guess a trip corss the NOrth Sea is out of question for me this year. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com http://www.irish-banjo.com http://www.blues-banjo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Help please! Can anyone point me at any settings (other than Thomas Arne's) of the song 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' from Shakespeare's As You Like It? There's nothing coming up on JC's tune finder. If not in abc, other formats (MIDI, graphics, PDF) would be most acceptable. I don't know whether Morley set it, he certainly did 'There Was A Lover And His Lass'. TIA -- Steve Mansfield Contact me off-list using lists AT lesession DOT co DOT uk http://www.lesession.co.uk - abc music notation tutorial, the uk.music.folk newsgroup FAQ, and other goodies http://www.trebuchetmusic.co.uk - Trebuchet To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Hi Steve if you don't get a reply from the abc list, try asking a university person. One possibility would be Dr Peter Holman of University of Leeds - he'd know of any C18th ones. Thomas Green Help please! Can anyone point me at any settings (other than Thomas Arne's) of the song 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' from Shakespeare's As You Like It? There's nothing coming up on JC's tune finder. If not in abc, other formats (MIDI, graphics, PDF) would be most acceptable. I don't know whether Morley set it, he certainly did 'There Was A Lover And His Lass'. TIA 27 Allerton Park, Leeds LS7 4ND +44-(0)-113-226-6687 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greenery/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Steve Mansfield wrote: Help please! Can anyone point me at any settings (other than Thomas Arne's) of the song 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' from Shakespeare's As You Like It? There's nothing coming up on JC's tune finder. There is an anonymous tune from the time of Shakespeare (possibly even the one used by Shakespeare) in John Runge's It was a lover and his lass - a collection of original songs from Shakespeare's plays arranged for voice and guitar. I believe the same tune also is in Edward W. Naylor's great 1898 book Shakespeare and Music. Unfortunately I seem to have lost my copy of Runge's collection, and the Naylor book I found at a public library a thousand kilometers away from where I live today, so I can't help you much more than that. I don't know whether Morley set it, he certainly did 'There Was A Lover And His Lass'. He definitely didn't. It was a lover and his lass is the only known work by Morley with any Shakespeare association at all, and even then there's no reason to believe it to be anything more than that the two just happened to pick up and use the same poem. Morley doesn't seem to have been involved in theatre/masque at all. That field was mainly left for the younger generation of Elizabethan composers like John Coprario, Robert Johnson and to some extent the Campian/Rosseter duo and John Dowland. If you're looking for original Shakespeare music in general, Robert Johnson would be the composer to check out. There seem to be strong evidence that some of his songs (including Hark, hark the lark, Where the bee sucks and Full fathom five) were indeed the ones used by Shakespeare. First you should try to locate a copy of Naylor's book though. And don't let the publishing date put you off. Yes, it was written during a period when objetivity was a virtue virtually unkown among musicologists, but Naylor was unique - with a understanding and *respect* for his sources decades ahead of his contemporaries. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com http://www.irish-banjo.com http://www.blues-banjo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
