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Thread #126465   Message #2809965
Posted By: MGM·Lion
12-Jan-10 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: Poems set to music
Subject: RE: Poems set to music
The Mellstock Quire's record on Forest Tracks label FT3016 has an attractive setting of Thomas Hardy's 'The Ruined Maid', sung by Caroline Jackson-Houlston (also author of a good book on the ballads, "Ballads, Songs and Snatches"), to the Dorset tune collected by Hammond of 'The Bold Grenadier'.