Dear Alain,
The Baltimore Consort did not have that story specifically in mind when we
chose to arrange Cold and Raw with Custer LaRue singing. We thought more
generally, that there is so much 17th century gender-bending where singer's
roles are concerned, that it fit into the spirit of the
Hi Ronn,
Many thanks for that very interesting piece of information - that shows how
tricky it is to interpret bits of contemporary information, and even more
so when the information comes from the fairly distant past. But perhaps, it
is more important to try and establish the connection
Ronn McFarlane wrote:
Dear Alain,
The Baltimore Consort did not have that story specifically in mind when we
chose to arrange Cold and Raw with Custer LaRue singing. We thought more
generally, that there is so much 17th century gender-bending where singer's
roles are concerned, that it fit
Greg M. Silverman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If indeed Mr. Purcell was offended that Queen Mary preferred a vulgar
ballad to one of his refined tunes, he had a lot of nerve, since he
was the author of many a vulgar ballad himself
I think Hawkins meant vulgar in the sense of common or of the
BTW, is there something actually Scottish about cold raw? It was
originally published (I think) as a new Scots song - Is it a falsely
popular (i.e. written by an educated, professional musician possibly
employed by the court or the church), falsely scottish ballad? I am
thinking about the way
I think we need to avoid overlaying our modern ideas on popular music=20
version serious classical music. It seems to me there was more continuity=
=20
between the styles in the 16th and 17th centuries with pieces being quoted=
=20
back and forth. A lot of late 20th Century comparmentalization
Combining a few in this thread. I was brought up on Scots folk music, and
have an old recording of Ewan McColl doing drinking songs of many years ago.
The Wind blew the Bonny Lassie's Plaidie Awa' , and many others. I don't
know their age, perhaps they are recent music hall songs masquerading as
Howard,
Thanks for the nice story. Maybe I was too quick on the historically
correct trigger. The song may have been sung also by castrati with cruel
humorous effects, etc. in its 40 or 50 years existence. And it's all too
easy to get reductive and apply our own stereotypes to the past.
Do you
